Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter changes its handle from @twitter to @X, Twitter Blue to @XBlue, @TwitterSupport to @Support, and more; the previous @X owner now uses @x12345678998765  —  Twitter has changed its official handle to @X as part of the ongoing rebranding.  As a result, the original @Twitter handle is now inactive … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others write a paper for EU policymakers encouraging support for open-source AI models ahead of the final EU AI Act  —  In a paper sent to EU policymakers, a group of companies, including GitHub, Hugging Face, Creative Commons, and others … Lees verder op Tech Meme

George Hammond / Financial Times: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch the Frontier Model Forum, aiming to ensure “the safe and responsible development of frontier AI models”  —  Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: Evan Blass leaks over a dozen images ahead of Samsung Unpacked, showing the Galaxy Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5, new Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Tab S9 tablets, and more  —  All we need to know at this stage is pricing and availability details.  —  •  —  TL;DR  — A long-time leaker has posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Ye / Reuters: Alibaba plans to let business customers use Meta’s Llama 2 to build apps, the first Chinese company to do so; companies with <700M MAUs can use Llama for free  —  Alibaba’s (9988.HK) cloud computing division said it has become the first Chinese enterprise to support Meta’s (META.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: An interview with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on generative AI, the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, competition among cloud providers offering generative AI services, and more  —  Head of Amazon Web Services says Microsoft and OpenAI are not way ahead — there will be choice and competition Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian: A profile of Joseph Weizenbaum, who created the first chatbot in 1966 but turned against AI, believing the computer revolution constricted our humanity  —  Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anto Antony / Bloomberg: A profile of Indian edtech giant Byju’s CEO Byju Raveendran, who has been in crisis mode for months but is expecting a $1B equity investment as early as August  —  – Indian firm has struggled to overcome issues with liquidity  — US investors accused Byju’s of hiding half a billion dollars Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeff Wilser / CoinDesk: A look at the origins of Worldcoin’s eye-scanning orb, how the company is trying to safeguard user privacy, its tokenomics, policy challenges, and more  —  Is Sam Altman’s UBI startup a smart countermeasure to AI, or a privacy nightmare?  Jeff Wilser reports.  —  I’ve traveled to Berlin to stare into the future. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: UNESCO calls for a global ban on smartphones in schools, saying intensive technology use negatively impacts student performance and increases disruption  —  Major UN report issues warning over excessive use, with one in six countries already banning the devices Lees verder op Tech Meme