Financial Times: In his first visit since 2020, Tim Cook praises Apple’s “symbiotic kind of relationship” with China, amid the company’s moves to diversify from the country  —  Chief executive’s visit comes despite rising trade and geopolitical tensions between Beijing and US Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoel Roth / Techdirt: Some national security concerns about TikTok are valid, but a forced sale of its US operations may undermine the company’s ability to fight adversarial threats  —  from the when-government-demands-backfire dept  —  Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model’s clear limitations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on AI’s iPhone moment, the DGX Cloud service, the US’ export controls, Nvidia’s position in the stack in an LLM world, and more  —  I first spoke with Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang after last March’s GTC conference, and again after last fall’s GTC … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots  —  Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Databricks open sources Dolly, an LLM that the company says can be trained in less than three hours on one machine and is a clone of Stanford’s Alpaca model  —  Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: A March 15 affidavit shows how the FBI arrested Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, the alleged BreachForums admin; the DOJ caused the forum “to go offline”  —  The Justice Department also said it conducted a “disruption operation” that caused BreachForums to go offline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: An AI chatbots comparison test finds ChatGPT is the most verbally dextrous, Bing is best for getting information from the web, and Bard is surprisingly limited  —  The web is full of chattering bots, but which is the most useful and for what?  We compare Bard, Bing, and ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Email: Twitter offers four-year equity grants to staff, on top of legacy equity, that will start to vest after six months and plans a liquidity event in a year  —  New stock will start to vest after six months, according to an email  —  Twitter Inc. is offering new equity grants to staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme