Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Prolific, which stress tests AI models through its network of 120K human participants, raised £25M co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises  —  AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Emails: Urs Holzle, Google employee no. 8, plans to step back from management after 24 years, becoming an “individual contributor” as Google shakes up Cloud  —  – Employee No. 8 Urs Holzle will step back from management after 24 years, CNBC has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft’s favor; some question the judge’s standard on harming competition  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission would face hurdles in any appeal of a court’s order on Tuesday that said Microsoft (MSFT.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: An Indian official says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to “internal issues” and “doesn’t affect” the chip program; Foxconn plans to look for new partners  —  Minister says both companies will still pursue chip projects in India Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings  —  Senior US national security officials are scheduled to defend their use and development of artificial intelligence on Tuesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Linux distribution company SUSE plans to create a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, investing $10M into the project over the coming years  —  A storm is brewing in open-source land that could change the Linux distro landscape  —  Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Catherine Thorbecke / CNN: A California law firm launches a class-action suit against Google, alleging user data scraping without consent for AI training, after a similar OpenAI suit  —  Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank-owned Arm is in talks to add Nvidia as an anchor investor while the company presses ahead with plans for a New York IPO as soon as September  —  World’s most valuable semiconductor group discusses acquiring stake in SoftBank-owned chip designer ahead of New York listing Lees verder op Tech Meme