Wall Street Journal: As Beijing pushes for self-sufficiency in the $80B+ per year car chip business, sources say the use of homemade chips in Chinese cars has risen to around 15%  —  U.S. objects to rival’s push for self-sufficiency in $80 billion business and opens trade probe Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: An investigation details how predatory men engage in the grooming of child influencers on Instagram under the guise of working as social media professionals  —  Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Some 2024 LLM takeaways: multimodal vision became common, LLM prices crashed, overall environmental impact worsened despite efficiency gains, and slop arrived  —  A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024.  Here’s a review of things we figured … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: KoBold Metals, which uses AI to sift through historical and scientific data to identify untapped mineral deposits, raised a $537M Series C at a $2.96B valuation  —  KoBold Metals aims to lead race for critical minerals needed for energy transition  —  A mining and artificial intelligence start … Lees verder op Tech Meme