Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta announces Purple Llama, an initiative to promote responsible AI development by offering tools and evaluations for safely building open generative AI models  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to promote the responsible development of artificial intelligence systems with a new initiative called Purple Llama. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: TSMC and Arizona labor unions reach a deal covering foreign workers and more, to resolve labor disputes that have dogged TSMC’s fab construction site in Phoenix  —  – Agreement covers workforce training, safety, foreign workers  — TSMC widely expected to get federal money for $40 billion site Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Users say Google’s Gemini Pro is loath to comment on potentially controversial news topics, fails to get basic facts right, and struggles with some coding tasks  —  This week, Google took the wraps off of Gemini, its new flagship generative AI model meant to power a range of products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tells customers that the company plans to stop accepting Venmo as a payment method on January 10, 2024, after rolling out Venmo support in October 2022  —  – Amazon will no longer allow users to pay with Venmo beginning Jan. 10, according to a notice sent to users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the “goal in firing Sam [Altman] was to strengthen OpenAI”, but declines to provide specifics on why she fired him  —  In an interview, AI academic Helen Toner explains her posture in OpenAI’s power struggle Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Ganesh Venkataramanan, who led Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project for five years, left Tesla in November; Tesla executive Peter Bannon now leads Dojo  —  Venkataramanan, who has lead the Dojo project for the last five years, left the company last month, the people said … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon tests a $9.99/month grocery subscription service for Prime members, offering unlimited Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh grocery delivery on orders over $35  —  – Amazon is betting members of its Prime program will want to pay a separate monthly fee for unlimited grocery delivery on some orders. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Rhythms, which plans to use AI to analyze companies’ patterns, such as monthly reviews and weekly meetings, comes out of stealth with a $26M seed  —  GeekWire’s in-depth startup coverage tells the stories of the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out tags on Threads, with support for multiple words and no # marks; there can be just one tag per post and the tag view is the search view  —  Tags — basically hashtags with a twist — are now rolling out globally on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: X rolls out xAI’s chatbot Grok to X Premium+ users  —  Select users with X Premium Plus received access to the AI starting Thursday.  —  Elon Musk’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok, started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday.  X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app … Lees verder op Tech Meme