Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Matter’s biggest problem is that companies can’t agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks  —  The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home’s biggest problems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SoftBank reports ~$426M profit for Vision Fund in Q1, up from a ~$16.4B loss in Q1 2022 and ~$30B in FY2022; Vision Fund invested $1.6B in Q1; Arm lost ~$66.4M  —  – Paper losses on Alibaba led to SoftBank’s group net loss  — Arm tumbles to quarterly loss ahead of all-important IPO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Friedman: An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint  —  Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers’ backlash over its possible AI uses  —  On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources including current and former Stability AI employees describe a chaotic company led by an inexperienced CEO often unable to deliver on his lofty promises  —  After its breakout success with Stable Diffusion, the startup risks ceding its edge in the booming field of generative AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: some global investors including Warburg Pincus and GIC opt out of Ant Group’s proposed share buyback after the company’s valuation was slashed by 70%+  —  – Canada Pension, GIC also passing on opportunity to sell shares  — Fidelity, T. Rowe Price will sell some shares back to Ant Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: China releases draft rules for limiting the use of facial recognition to “specific purposes and full necessity,” requiring individual approval, and more  —  The pervasive use of facial recognition technology across all facets of life in China has elicited both praise for its convenience and backlash around privacy concerns. Lees verder op Tech Meme