Tech Meme

Lorena O’Neil / Rolling Stone: A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today  —  Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along  —  T  —  IMNIT GEBRU DIDN’T set out to work in AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues  —  Geopolitical tensions and new laws requiring companies to monitor environmental and human rights abuses in their supply networks drive interest Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joyce Lee / Reuters: Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM  —  South Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs”  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the parties reached a deal Friday to remove some books from the archive  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic  —  With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more  —  In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone’s battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year  —  iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone’s battery health. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global  —  Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores  —  Apple’s next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade.  Behind the scenes, though … Lees verder op Tech Meme