Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: TikTok opens its first European data center, in Ireland, after announcing the project in August 2020, and plans to finish the migration of user data by Q4 2024  —  It has been a long time coming, but TikTok says that its first European data center is finally operational — partially … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Information: Sources: over half of the 14 authors of Meta’s original Llama research paper from February quit over battles for compute resources, a hot job market, and more  —  Meta Platforms’ releases of its large-language models, Llama and Llama 2, in the past six months have won the company praise for offering free … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meg Kinnard / Associated Press: AGs in all 50 US states urge Congress to study how AI can be used to exploit kids, including via AI-made pornography, and pass legislation to guard against it  —  The top prosecutors in all 50 states are urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence can be used to exploit children through pornography … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Margrethe Vestager is stepping down as EU competition chief to run for a job at the EIB; sources: justice commissioner Didier Reynders will assume the role  —  Belgian politician set to be appointed as incumbent Margrethe Vestager targets top job at European Investment Bank Lees verder op Tech Meme