Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US, the UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance  —  – US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI  — Plan is part of Aukus security alliance formed to deter China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systematically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including from Sundar Pichai  —  On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lewis Gordon / The Verge: How Saudi Arabia’s investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as the kingdom aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports  —  With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max Read / Read Max: AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness because frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic, rather than existential, ways  —  If I’m being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like … relief? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker’s entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham  —  Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: Sources: Google quietly delayed Gemini’s public launch from next week to January 2024, a source says as the LLM doesn’t reliably handle some non-English queries  —  Google has quietly delayed the public debut of Gemini, a conversational artificial intelligence that aims to compete with OpenAI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: A look at Anthropic’s governance structure: the company is a public benefit corporation with a separate, long-term benefit trust set to select most of its board  —  A long-term benefit trust will eventually pick most of Anthropic’s board members.  Can we trust the structure? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: How a California college uses data collection tools to track students’ daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers  —  A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Counterpoint Research: Global smartwatch shipments grew 9% YoY in Q3 2023: Apple had its best-ever Q3 with shipments up 7% YoY, Samsung fell 19% YoY, and Huawei grew 56% YoY  —  – The global smartwatch market rebounded with a 9% YoY rise in Q3 2023 shipments, continuing the upward trend from the previous quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: EU lawmakers cannot agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, with foundation models becoming the main hurdle in talks over their proposed AI Act  —  EU lawmakers cannot agree on how to regulate systems like ChatGPT, in a threat to landmark legislation aimed at keeping artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme