Tech Meme

Maria Streshinsky / Wired: Q&A with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer, on AI benefits for images in filmmaking, the parallels between nuclear weapon development and AI, and more  —  The Oppenheimer director says AI is not the bomb.  His new movie might still scare you shitless. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Volt, which offers open banking APIs in the UK, Europe, and Brazil, raised a $60M Series B led by IVP, a source says at a $350M+ valuation  —  Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Dropbox launches two AI tools: one to summarize documents and Dash, an ambitious universal search engine that aims to be “Google for your personal stuff”  —  Dropbox is launching two different but related AI-powered services into its platform.  The first is simple and obvious: a tool for summarizing and querying documents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Dzieza / The Verge: A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training  —  As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: In his new book The Coming Wave, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman proposes a “modern Turing test” for AI, seeking to find “artificial capable intelligence”  —  A new book floats a provocative idea for testing whether machines are capable of human-like intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

K.J. Yossman / Variety: Filing: Embracer paid ~$395M for the rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in 2022, far below ~$2B estimates; Amazon reportedly paid $250M for TV rights  —  Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming conglomerate that snapped up the rights to “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jody Godoy / Reuters: Months before the SEC lawsuit, Coinbase filed amicus briefs in two crypto-related federal cases, an unusual strategy in federal court, aiming to aid its defense  —  Months before cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) became the biggest target of the U.S. crackdown on digital assets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix tweaks its weekly top 10 rankings to include “views”, calculated by dividing the total time spent watching a film or a show in a week by running time  —  The streamer’s weekly rankings will now show the most popular titles by number of accounts watching as well as total time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: In a tweet reply, Elon Musk says “cis” or “cisgender” are “slurs” on Twitter and the “contemptible creep” who “manufactured” the term “has serious problems”  —  – Elon Musk said terms like “cisgender” and “cis” are now considered “slurs” on Twitter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Volt, which offers open banking APIs in the UK, Europe, and Brazil, raised a $60M Series B led by IVP, a source says at a $350M valuation  —  Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked … Lees verder op Tech Meme