Financial Times: In his first visit to China since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple’s “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid Apple’s moves to diversify from the country — Chief executive’s visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US Lees verder op Tech Meme
Irregular Ideas: LLMs will demolish barriers for software creation and unleash the next great technology cycle, marking a kind of Gutenberg moment for the software industry — There is immense hyperbole about recent developments in artificial intelligence, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Intel: Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore’s Law, dies at 94 — Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94. — The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lisa Baertlein / Reuters: A look at Amazon’s efforts to offset its shipping costs by raising Prime subscription prices, increasing the minimum purchase free shipping threshold, and more — There is no such thing as free shipping. — Even so, Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and other online retailers who use so-called free delivery … Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Verge: AI chatbots comparison test: ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited — The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what? We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: An affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged admin of BreachForums; the DOJ says it caused the forum to go offline — The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft threatens to cut rivals’ Bing search index access if they use it for their AI chat tools and warns at least two customers of violating terms — Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Georgia Gee / The Intercept: An investigation finds US homeowners associations teaming up with police to install Flock Safety’s license plate surveillance cameras, without telling residents — At a city council meeting in June 2021, Mayor Thomas Kilgore, of Lakeway, Texas, made an announcement that confused his community. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jameel Jaffer / New York Times: A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM which the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford’s Alpaca model — Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space … Lees verder op Tech Meme