Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge to never pay a ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism  —  Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: The Guardian says its reputation was hurt after news aggregator Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman’s death next to an article about her  —  Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Heeter / The Information: Healthcare automation company Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, says it is shutting down and has sold parts of its business to Waystar and Humata Health  —  Olive AI, the healthcare automation company once valued at $4 billion, has sold itself off in pieces to healthcare companies Waystar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta’s Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture  —  – Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the company wasn’t trying to achieve “regulatory capture” when it came to the discussion on how best to approach AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme