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Microsoft's Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42” (Victor Tangermann/Futurism) 15-09-2023

Victor Tangermann / Futurism: Microsoft’s Start news website published a garbled, seemingly AI-generated obit for former NBA player Brandon Hunter, headlined, “Brandon Hunter useless at 42”  —  “AI should not be writing obituaries.”  —  Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away unexpectedly at the young age … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature (Financial Times) 15-09-2023

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature  —  Discussions are at an early stage and include possible subscription fee, say people familiar with the matter Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival (Jon Victor/The Information) 15-09-2023

Jon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its Gemini AI model, as the company nears a launch of the GPT-4 rival  —  Google has given a small group of companies access to an early version of its highly anticipated conversational artificial intelligence software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) 15-09-2023

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Salesforce plans to hire 3,300 people for sales, engineering, and its data cloud product, after cutting 10% of its workforce, or ~8,000 jobs, in January 2023  —  – New hires will be split among sales, engineering, data cloud  — Many hires will be boomerang employees, CEO Benioff says Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk's denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia (Bloomberg) 15-09-2023

Bloomberg: The US Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national security issues raised by Elon Musk’s denial to extend Starlink to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russia  —  The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users' location for commercial gain even after they opted out (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) 15-09-2023

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Google agrees to pay California $93M to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users’ location for commercial gain even after they opted out  —  Google will pay California $93 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of misleading consumers about its location tracking practices. Lees verder op Tech Meme

At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle” (Bloomberg) 15-09-2023

Bloomberg: At trial, the US DOJ asserted Googlers are trained to have sensitive conversations over chat with history off and avoid phrases like “market share” and “bundle”  —  Hi all, it’s Tom Giles in San Francisco and Davey Alba in Washington. Lees verder op Tech Meme