Katie Paul / Reuters: Nick Clegg says Meta used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train its new AI assistant and took steps to filter out private details from training datasets  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) used public Facebook and Instagram posts to train parts of its new Meta AI virtual assistant … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Q&A with Microsoft Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi on where AI is headed, competition, taking over some of Panos Panay’s responsibilities, and more  —  Usually, when Microsoft unveils its new laptops, the focus is on the hardware.  Last week, it was all about the software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy  —  The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with AMD CEO Lisa Su on competing with Nvidia’s H100, PyTorch, AI regulation, the US CHIPS Act, diversifying from TSMC, the global supply chain, and more  —  At this year’s Code Conference, the CEO of one of the world’s largest computer chip companies discusses competing with Nvidia’s leading GPU … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Ukrainians fear Chinese rules restricting exporting cheap consumer drone components from September 1 could worsen supply chain woes in Ukraine’s “war of drones”  —  As the war with Russia stretches on, so too does a contest to make more and deadlier flying machines. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Thornhill / Financial Times: An interview with Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström about his upbringing, his VC firm Atomico, the vitality of Europe’s startup space, a Skype “mafia”, and more  —  The Skype co-founder turned venture capitalist on how Europe’s start-ups can challenge America’s giants Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Filing: Robinhood expects a $100M charge in its fiscal Q3 2023 to resolve some legal and regulatory matters that the company previously disclosed  —  Robinhood Markets (HOOD.O) expects a $100-million charge in the third quarter to resolve some legal and regulatory matters that were previously disclosed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: John Giannandrea’s team built a next-gen search engine, “Pegasus”, for Apple’s own apps, used in Spotlight and Siri, and coming soon to the App Store  —  Apple has the wherewithal to launch its own search engine, a replacement for Google.  And Microsoft even approached the company about helping make that happen. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Thornhill / Financial Times: An interview with Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström about his upbringing, his VC firm Atomico, the vitality of Europe’s startup space, a Skype “mafia”, and more  —  The Skype co-founder turned venture capitalist on how Europe’s start-ups can challenge America’s giants Lees verder op Tech Meme