Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: As Big Tech companies compel employees to return to the office, Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, and others remain steadfast backers of remote work  —  – Some tech companies still see benefit of work-from-home policy  — Move runs counter to effort to revive US office comeback Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: Analysis: Books3, a dataset used to train Meta’s Llama, BloombergGPT, and EleutherAI’s GPT-J, contains 170K+ books from authors like Stephen King and Junot Díaz  —  One of the most troubling issues around generative AI is simple: It’s being made in secret. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are considered candidates to launch IPOs in 2024, as Arm’s forthcoming IPO provides a good test of investor sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: The US announces $667M in new grants and loans for 37 new recipients to expand rural broadband infrastructure, after allocating $771.4M in April and June 2023  —  The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week, addressing a longstanding wish list item; Adam Mosseri confirmed testing the web app  —  Meta Platforms plans to launch a web version of microblogging app Threads early this week, the biggest new feature to be introduced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of the EU DSA and DMA on Big Tech; some say the effect could be as severe as Great Depression-era laws that reined in US banks  —  Google, Meta Platforms and others are set to face regulations that resemble the detail and sweep of those imposed on banks Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Hoover / Wired: How Science, Nature, and other peer-reviewed journals are grappling with outlines, drafts, or papers that authors used generative AI to write without disclosure  —  Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing.  But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: PeckShield: a wallet tied to the ~$600M Binance Coin hack in October 2022 had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol, after using BNB as collateral  —  Cryptocurrencies’ sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme