Sunday, July 9, 2023

Following similar lawsuits Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge:
Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material  —  Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each …



The Snap Star creator program Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive is showing early signs of traction as part of broader efforts to reverse declining sales (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
The Snap Star creator program, Snap's new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of broader efforts to reverse declining sales  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap's efforts to lure creators and their followers …



Evernote lays off most of its remaining staff in the US and Chile and will relocate nearly all operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2022 (Joshua Bote/SFGATE)

Joshua Bote / SFGATE:
Evernote lays off most of its remaining staff in the US and Chile, and will relocate nearly all operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2022  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff …



Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan has set up an office in Singapore and might compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV for south-east Asia investments (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Sequoia's China unit HongShan has set up an office in Singapore and might compete with Sequoia's India-based Peak XV for south-east Asia investments  —  Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV



A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2 an AI chatbot that answers medical questions and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A look at Google's Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained …



Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in data center financing decisions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: amid the Iran war, Asian bankers say rising power prices and energy security are becoming a bigger consideration in ...