Jenna Scatena / Wired: A profile of Faruk Fatih Özer, the convicted CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, as he starts a 11,196-year prison sentence in Turkey for laundering assets  —  Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence.  Did he almost get away with the biggest heist in Turkey’s history … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Opera now lets Opera One users download and run 150 LLMs from 50+ families locally, including Llama and Google’s Gemma, via the Ollama open source framework  —  Web browser company Opera announced today it will now allow users to download and use Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on their computer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: Stability AI releases Stable Audio 2.0, letting users create three minute sound clips from copyright-free audio samples, available for free via its website  —  Stable Audio 2., an audio generation model for Stability AI, now lets users upload their own audio samples which they can then transform using prompts … Lees verder op Tech Meme