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
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
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
Dayana Mustak / Bloomberg: John Warnock, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Charles Geschke and was the company’s CEO until 2000 and CTO until retiring in 2001, died on August 19 at age 82 — Technology entrepreneur John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe Inc., died on Saturday at age 82, the company said in a statement. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta plans to launch a web version of Threads early this week — A web version of the new text-first app is one of the features users have asked for and could help it compete with X after decline in usage. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jessica Lucas / The Verge: Some clinicians think unrealistic depictions of dissociative identity disorder on TikTok are influencing young people to self-diagnose or imitate the disorder — TikTok’s dissociative identity disorder community thinks doctors don’t know what’s going on. Some doctors feel the same about them. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: A look at the potential impact of the EU’s DSA and DMA on Big Tech, as some say the effect may 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
Bloomberg: A look at online trading scams that have cost European consumers billions, perpetrated by fraudsters in highly professional call centers dubbed “boiler rooms” — – ‘Boiler room’ operations scam consumers out of huge sums — Europe’s largest economy has become a key target in Europe 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
Matt Novak / Forbes: Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter’s native shortening service are broken too — Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014. Lees verder op Tech Meme