Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Ziroh Labs and the Indian Institute of Technology partner to launch Kompact AI, which they say is an affordable AI system to run large models on standard CPUs  —  Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country’s premier technology school … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers exploited OpenAI’s gpt-4o-mini-based API to create unique messages, bypassing spam filters to target 80K+ sites in four months  —  Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, James Cameron says he is cautiously optimistic about generative AI’s role in filmmaking, including cutting costs  —  In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff”  —  Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Clark / Bloomberg: Greenpeace: emissions from AI chip production rose 357% in 2024, driven by a heavy reliance on fossil fuels, outpacing a 351% rise in electricity consumption  —  Emissions generated from the production of semiconductors that underpin AI services grew more than fourfold in 2024 … Lees verder op Tech Meme