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

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which offers an AI-powered deweeding robot for farmers, raised a $70M Series D led by BOND, taking its total funding to $157M  —  Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $70 million in the latest vote of confidence from investors in the company’s agriculture technology platform … 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

Madhumita Murgia / 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  —  Founder of the artificial intelligence R&D lab says scientific understanding can prevent mis-steps in developing the technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more  —  With an election this week, documents seen by Bloomberg expose the extent of Moscow’s infiltration of the former Soviet state. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of and interview with Tim Cook on being “perfectly fine with not being first”, running Apple, Vision Pro, AI, the Design Studio, group chats, and more  —  The CEO of the world’s most valuable company led two of the biggest product launches of his tenure this year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Hands-on with Apple’s hearing health features for AirPods Pro 2, set for iOS 18.1: hearing aids work well, hearing protection in all modes, and a hearing test  —  The AirPods Pro 2 will soon offer more robust hearing protection and a new hearing aid feature.  But it’s the hearing test that has really hooked me. 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

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils 10 new AI agents for its enterprise-focused Dynamics 365 apps covering sales, finance, and more, ahead of Salesforce’s Agentforce availability  —  AI agents are reigniting the competition between Microsoft and Salesforce.  —  Microsoft announced 10 new AI agents … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: IBM launches its open source Granite 3.0 models, including 2B and 8B general purpose versions and Mixture-of-Experts models, aimed at enterprise customers  —  Make no mistake about it, enterprise AI is big business, especially for IBM.  —  IBM already has a $2 billion book of business related … Lees verder op Tech Meme