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Todd Spangler / Variety: Dow Jones and New York Post sue AI startup Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement and say it hasn’t replied to a July 2024 letter about copyright issues  —  News Corp CEO accuses Perplexity of ‘content kleptocracy’ … “Perplexity is a generative artificial intelligence company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

João da Silva / BBC: ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions  —  TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Q&A with Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize being “a watershed moment for AI”, biology, AlphaFold 3, Isomorphic Labs, drug programs, and more  —  Limited time offer  —  Save 40% on Standard Digital  —  $468 $279 for your first year, equivalent to $23.25 per month. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Warminsky / The Record: UK-based Sophos plans to acquire Atlanta-based cybersecurity company Secureworks for ~$859M, expected to close in early 2025; Dell owns ~79% of Secureworks  —  Prominent cybersecurity company Sophos is acquiring another well-known firm in the industry, Secureworks, for about $859 million, the two companies announced Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

João da Silva / BBC: ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions  —  TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

João da Silva / BBC: ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions  —  TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: AMD unveils Zen 5-based X3D desktop CPUs, arriving November 7, but offers few details and no price, ahead of Intel’s Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24  —  AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Zip, which uses AI to help businesses manage buying goods and services, raised $190M led by BOND at a $2.2B valuation, up from $1.5B in May 2023  —  – The procurement startup raised $190 million in the deal  — Bond led the financing, with participation from DST and CRV Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on AI, tax, and more; in a follow-up, an exec said “at the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted”  —  We declined. … Today’s episode of Decoder, well — it’s a ride.  I’m talking to Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Tim Cook helped Nike secure Elliott Hill as CEO in September, and has carved out a role as one of Nike’s closest outside advisers during a turnaround  —  – Cook has been on the Nike board since before the first iPhone  — Nike is undergoing overhaul with new CEO after revenue misses Lees verder op Tech Meme