Bloomberg: SIA: Huawei is building secret chip fabrication facilities across China that would let the company skirt US sanctions and is receiving ~$30B in state funding — – Tech giant is reportedly getting $30 billion in state support — Biden administration monitoring and ready to take action Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: IBM unveils watsonx Code Assistant for IBM Z, which uses a code-generating AI model to translate COBOL code into Java, set for general availability in Q4 2023 — COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Information: Salesforce Ventures is leading a funding round in Hugging Face; sources: the round is for ~$200M at a $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its private valuation — Salesforce is leading a financing round in Hugging Face, one of the most highly valued startups helping businesses use artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nilay Patel / The Verge: An analysis of Google policy dilemmas as YouTube and UMG explore AI licensing, Google scrapes the web to train AI, and lawsuits threaten to upend copyright law — Google has made clear it is going to use the open web to inform and create anything it wants, and nothing can get in its way. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: 3D printer maker Bambu Lab blames a cloud outage for an issue that caused some of its customers’ devices to start printing without their consent — Bambu Lab says it will help with repairs, replacement parts. — Imagine waking in the middle of the night to the sound of your 3D printer, printing away. Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Information: Salesforce Ventures is leading a funding round in Hugging Face; sources: the round is for ~$200M at $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its private valuation — Salesforce is leading a financing round in Hugging Face, one of the most highly valued startups helping businesses use artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI adds fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo, letting developers, for a fee, customize models with their own data to make them perform better for their use cases — OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ioannis Kouvakas / Just Security: A look at the UK government’s planned revisions to its Investigatory Powers Act, including potential unintended consequences like slowing down security updates — The United Kingdom (U.K.) government has recently unveiled plans to revise the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA) … Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Information: Sources: Salesforce is leading a ~$200M funding round in Hugging Face at a $4B+ valuation, more than doubling its share price and private valuation — Salesforce is leading a financing round in Hugging Face, one of the most highly valued startups helping businesses use artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitch rolls out an experimental TikTok-like vertical “discovery feed” to select users, first with horizontal clips and, “as the feed evolves”, vertical clips — Twitch is the latest tech company to try a TikTok-like way to browse content. Lees verder op Tech Meme