Umar Shakir / The Verge:
What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more — Meta is holding its annual Connect developers conference next week, and it’s going to showcase a bunch of expected and perhaps some surprise …
Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works — Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials
A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries (Gabriel Gatehouse/BBC)
Gabriel Gatehouse / BBC:
A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries — Do you look at the possibility of political turbulence ahead of November’s US presidential election and think: democracy could be in trouble?
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday — – Bans stem from an investigation into cybersecurity risks — Restrictions would be enforced by the Commerce Department
At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, more — Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” …
Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is “not sustainable”, joining peers like Salesforce (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is “not sustainable”, joining peers like Salesforce — – Equity awards are ‘not sustainable,’ CEO Yuan writes in memo — Tech investors and executives concerned about share dilution
Docs: in Perplexity’s new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a “sponsored” question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Docs: in Perplexity’s new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a “sponsored” question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser — AI search start-up develops ‘sponsored’ question system in effort to gain share of $300bn digital ads industry
Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a proposed ChatGPT logo with a simple, large black “O”, which struck some as ominous and lacking in creativity (Kali Hays/Fortune)
Kali Hays / Fortune:
Sources: many OpenAI staff were taken aback by a proposed ChatGPT logo with a simple, large black “O”, which struck some as ominous and lacking in creativity — A black ring can represent many things – simplicity, a new phase, a void. Whatever its meaning …
X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company’s lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative (New York Times)
New York Times:
X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company’s lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative — In an abrupt reversal, the social network’s lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied.
A look at Jony Ive’s work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF’s Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
A look at Jony Ive’s work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF’s Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device — Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
