Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted materials in generative AI  —  If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: ~700K TikTok accounts in Turkey were hacked before Turkey’s election in May via a flaw TikTok knew in 2022; TikTok admits “unusual activity” in April  —  A U.K. security agency warned TikTok about the exploited vulnerability more than a year earlier, but the company chose not to fix it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: Critics say Saudi Arabia uses Snapchat to promote Mohammed bin Salman’s image and as a tool for repression globally; sources: the country closely monitors snaps  —  Critics say app – partly owned by a Saudi investor – promoting image of Mohammed bin Salman while critical voices are punished Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: McKinsey partners with Cohere to help enterprise clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI  —  Consultancy giant McKinsey said it had struck a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Cohere in an effort to provide AI solutions to its enterprise clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: Sources: Cameo tells staff it is laying off 80+ workers because of financial pressures, leaving fewer than 50, down nearly 90% from its peak headcount last year  —  Cameo, the video shoutout app that gained in popularity during the pandemic shutdowns, told employees on Tuesday that it was laying off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: McKinsey partners with Cohere to help clients adopt generative AI, after Deloitte partnered with Nvidia and Bain and Company teamed up with OpenAI  —  Consultancy giant McKinsey said it had struck a partnership with artificial intelligence startup Cohere in an effort to provide AI solutions to its enterprise clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: After about two and a half years as OnlyFans’ CEO, Ami Gan departs to launch a new venture; Chief Strategy & Operations Officer Keily Blair takes over as CEO  —  After about two and a half years as CEO, Ami Gan is leaving OnlyFans.  Chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will take over as CEO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: An Ada Lovelace Institute report warns that the UK’s approach to AI safety lacks credibility and makes 18 recommendations for improving the government’s plans  —  The UK government has been trying to cultivate an image of itself as an international mover-and-shaker in the nascent field … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm and Meta announce that Llama 2 will run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs in 2024; Qualcomm says Llama 2 will enable intelligent virtual assistants  —  – Qualcomm and Meta will enable the social networking company’s so-called new large language model, Llama 2, to run on Qualcomm chips on phones and PCs starting in 2024 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta: Meta releases Llama 2, its open-source LLM with double the context length, for free for research and commercial use, and expands its Microsoft partnership  —  Recent breakthroughs in AI, and generative AI in particular, have captured the public’s imagination and demonstrated what those developing … Lees verder op Tech Meme