Tech Meme

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: A historical look at Microsoft’s work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future  —  [Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: 01.ai, DeepSeek, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls  —  01.ai, Alibaba and ByteDance have cut ‘inference’ costs despite Washington curbs on accessing cutting-edge chips Lees verder op Tech Meme

K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it as a Chinese military company, after failing to engage on the issue for over 16 months  —  – US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm  — List aimed at hindering China’s access to advanced technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository  —  Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in Northern California, asking it to intervene and restore … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Fuji Soft’s board decided to keep backing KKR’s ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain’s $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company  —  Private equity titans cause a stir in the country, with a rare battle over Japanese software company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini  —  The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only  —  Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Terray Therapeutics, which uses AI to accelerate small-molecule drug development, raised a $120M Series B led by Bedford Ridge Capital and Nvidia’s NVentures  —  Terray Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of small-molecule drugs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models  —  Mira Murati, former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is raising funds from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, according to sources familiar with the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matilda Battersby / The Bookseller: Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints  —  The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property … Lees verder op Tech Meme