Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia’s KAUST, on the kingdom’s AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more  —  With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot  —  Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Apple removing ADP in the UK is a pyrrhic victory for Apple, and UK users’ muted response suggests they may not care about privacy as much as the company thinks  —  If the tech giant hopes that killing encryption will cause public upset and deter other governments, it’s probably wrong. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bridgetown Research, which aims to use AI agents to expedite data collection and research in due diligence, raised a $19M Series A led by Accel and Lightspeed  —  Due diligence is a costly business, and not just in the realm of investing.  Even for a company trying to launch a new product … Lees verder op Tech Meme