Laurie Clarke / Politico: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed to open up their AI models to the UK government for research and safety purposes  —  LONDON — Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HSBC rebrands SVB UK as HSBC Innovation Banking and adds teams in the US, Israel, and Hong Kong to serve startups, investors, and other tech clients  —  Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and expansion under its new owner. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shinhye Kang / Bloomberg: South Korean prosecutors say an ex-Samsung executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs in 2018 and 2019 to replicate an entire chip plant in China  —  A former Samsung Electronics Co. executive allegedly stole blueprints and designs to try and replicate an entire semiconductor plant in China … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian Tucker / The Guardian: Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK’s Online Safety Bill, and more  —  The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amber Ferguson / Washington Post: A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions, which plans to sell its $60K robots to other studios  —  Is this technology a safe alternative for busy people who dream of semi-permanent wispy lashes? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia GeForce Now in the coming months, letting users stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance  —  Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI  —  America’s largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry’s future may be across the pond, and is opening … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model to generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody  —  Meta’s MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody. Lees verder op Tech Meme