Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: The US says OpenAI and Anthropic agreed to give the US AI Safety Institute early access to major new AI models to test and evaluate their capabilities and risks  —  The US government announced agreements with leading artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic to help test and evaluate their upcoming technologies for safety. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Chinese state media: a Chinese official says the government has invested $6.12B+ in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past few years  —  China has invested over 43.5 billion yuan ($6.12 billion) in a nationwide project to build computing data centers over the past years … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Facebook, Instagram, Craigslist, Tumblr, the NYT, the FT, The Atlantic, Vox Media, USA Today, Condé Nast, and more block Apple’s Applebot-Extended AI crawler  —  This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the Netherlands government will likely not renew some ASML licenses to service and provide spare parts in China when they expire at the end of 2024  —  – Huawei, SMIC rely on ASML machines for advanced chipmaking  — China cannot replicate ASML’s advanced lithography systems yet Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Paul / Reuters: Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024  —  Meta’s (META.O) Llama artificial intelligence models are being used by companies including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and AT&T … Lees verder op Tech Meme