Tech Meme

Marah Eakin / Wired: How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental  —  It’s harder to make fire than you might think.  But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible.  —  Pixar had a problem. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Carreyrou / New York Times: A look at the orchestrated downfall of Kyle Roche, co-founder of Roche Freedman LLP, known for suing crypto companies and getting a verdict against Craig Wright  —  Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded.  Who orchestrated his downfall? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: Duolingo says the company significantly scaled back TV ads, and its DAUs growing 62% YoY to 20.3M in Q1 2023 is due in part to efficient social media marketing  —  The language-learning app now relies more on memes—helping it climb to 20 million daily active users Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Hands-on with an Adobe Photoshop beta’s Generative Fill AI feature, which lets users add objects to, remove content from, and expand images using text prompts  —  A new ‘generative fill’ AI capability can create joyful Photoshop edits — and frightening deepfakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm  —  Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the health care startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others  —  Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Holden / Reuters: The UK names Ian Hogarth to lead its AI Foundation Model Taskforce; Hogarth co-founded concert discovery service Songkick, which Warner Music acquired in 2017  —  The British government said on Sunday that tech entrepreneur Ian Hogarth would head its new taskforce to look at the safety risks posed by artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Intel agrees in principle to build a $25B chip manufacturing plant in Israel, which is slated to begin operations by 2027 and remain active until at least 2035  —  Intel Corp. has agreed in principle to build a new manufacturing plant in Israel in the latest move by the US semiconductor giant to diversify its production sources. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stanford CRFM: Researchers find that major foundation model providers can feasibly comply with the EU’s draft AI Act, which would improve transparency in the entire ecosystem  —  Stanford researchers evaluate foundation model providers like OpenAI and Google for their compliance with proposed EU law on AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Takahiro Shibuya / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Huawei is seeking licensing fees from ~30 small to midsize Japanese firms over the use of its patented tech, an unusual move for a major manufacturer  —  Chinese telecom giant turns to patent fees to offset sales decline  —  China’s Huawei to trying to forge a path forward amid U.S. sanctions … Lees verder op Tech Meme