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<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Techmeme</title><link>http://www.techmeme.com/</link><description>Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:36:02 -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:36:02 -0400</lastBuildDate><item> <title>How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut (The Guardian)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p2#a240519p2</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/how-china-is-using-ai-news-anchors-to-deliver-its-propaganda"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240519/i2.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p2#a240519p2" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.theguardian.com/">The Guardian</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/how-china-is-using-ai-news-anchors-to-deliver-its-propaganda">How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut</A></B></SPAN> — News avatars are proliferating on social media and experts say they will spread as the technology becomes more accessible</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:35:24 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p2#a240519p2</guid></item><item> <title>Chinese firms are selling "AI-in-a-box" products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024 (Financial Times)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p1#a240519p1</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://t.co/oQ3JWM28vU"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240519/i1.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p1#a240519p1" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://t.co/oQ3JWM28vU">Chinese firms are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on premises; Huawei estimates the Chinese market for such machines will hit ~$2.3B in 2024</A></B></SPAN> — Huawei leads trend of providing companies with means to power their own artificial intelligence apps rather than through public cloud</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:05:07 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240519/p1#a240519p1</guid></item><item> <title>DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91 (Steve Lohr/New York Times)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p18#a240518p18</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/robert-dennard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.RhJU.wVHoIk8VuNoz&smid=url-share"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i18.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p18#a240518p18" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Steve Lohr / <A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/robert-dennard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.RhJU.wVHoIk8VuNoz&smid=url-share">DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91</A></B></SPAN> — He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 23:20:02 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p18#a240518p18</guid></item><item> <title>A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p17#a240518p17</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-stock-jensen-huang-sega-irimajiri-chips-ai-906247db?st=68qbpcp5ou778pe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i17.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p17#a240518p17" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Ben Cohen / <A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-stock-jensen-huang-sega-irimajiri-chips-ai-906247db?st=68qbpcp5ou778pe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">A profile of Shoichiro Irimajiri, one of Japan's most admired business leaders who, as a Sega executive, saved Nvidia in the 1990s with a $5M investment</A></B></SPAN> — It's a $2 trillion company today. It wouldn't exist without someone known as Irimajiri-san. — Before it was one of the world's … </P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 21:45:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p17#a240518p17</guid></item><item> <title>Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia (Cassandra Willyard/MIT Technology Review)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p16#a240518p16</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092604/how-cuddly-robots-could-change-dementia-care/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i16.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p16#a240518p16" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Cassandra Willyard / <A HREF="http://www.technologyreview.com/">MIT Technology Review</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/17/1092604/how-cuddly-robots-could-change-dementia-care/">Researchers are working on sophisticated robots that use AI to converse and play games with people suffering from cognitive disorders like dementia</A></B></SPAN> — Researchers are using AI and technological advancements to create companion robots … Last week, I scoured the internet in search of a robotic dog.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:35:04 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p16#a240518p16</guid></item><item> <title>Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity (Sam Altman/@sama)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p15#a240518p15</link> <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p15#a240518p15" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Sam Altman / <A HREF="https://x.com/sama">@sama</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://x.com/sama/status/1791936857594581428">Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity</A></B></SPAN> — in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity: we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop. there was</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:10:01 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p15#a240518p15</guid></item><item> <title>Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing (Steven Levy/Wired)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p14#a240518p14</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i14.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p14#a240518p14" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Steven Levy / <A HREF="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-believe-the-ai-hype/">Despite some skeptics claiming that AI is an industry-wide delusion, last week's demos from OpenAI and Google show that the rate of AI progress is not slowing</A></B></SPAN> — Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there's plenty more disruption to come.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:05:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p14#a240518p14</guid></item><item> <title>MSI Claw handheld review: comfortable grips and not very buggy but bad performance by Intel Core Ultra, weak battery, and Windows holds back handheld gaming (Sean Hollister/The Verge)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p13#a240518p13</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.theverge.com/24105991/msi-claw-review"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i13.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p13#a240518p13" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Sean Hollister / <A HREF="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.theverge.com/24105991/msi-claw-review">MSI Claw handheld review: comfortable grips and not very buggy but bad performance by Intel Core Ultra, weak battery, and Windows holds back handheld gaming</A></B></SPAN> — Steer clear. … No one should buy an MSI Claw. It's not technically broken: the first 7-inch Intel Core Ultra handheld gaming PC … </P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 14:45:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p13#a240518p13</guid></item><item> <title>Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more (Greg Brockman/@gdb)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p12#a240518p12</link> <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p12#a240518p12" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Greg Brockman / <A HREF="https://x.com/gdb">@gdb</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://x.com/gdb/status/1791869138132218351">Sam Altman and Greg Brockman respond to Jan Leike, say they've raised awareness of the risks and opportunities of AGI, will keep doing safety research, and more</A></B></SPAN> — We're really grateful to Jan for everything he's done for OpenAI, and we know he'll continue to contribute to the mission from outside. In light of the questions his departure has raised, we wanted to explain a bit about how we think about our overall strategy. First, we have</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:20:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p12#a240518p12</guid></item><item> <title>A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p11#a240518p11</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://alturl.com/otcki"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i11.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p11#a240518p11" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Lucas Shaw / <A HREF="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://alturl.com/otcki">A profile of Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters, who led the company's successful crackdown on password sharing and is now pushing a focus on live programming</A></B></SPAN> — Now all he's got to figure out is live programming, sports, gaming, pricing and, oh, advertising. — In mid-February, Greg Peters … </P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 11:20:13 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p11#a240518p11</guid></item><item> <title>How bots monopolizing DeviantArt's promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform's unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p10#a240518p10</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i10.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p10#a240518p10" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Nitish Pahwa / <A HREF="http://slate.com/">Slate</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html">How bots monopolizing DeviantArt's promotional and revenue apparatuses and the platform's unwillingness to address the issue are driving artists to abandon it</A></B></SPAN> — Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 09:55:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p10#a240518p10</guid></item><item> <title>Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion (Lisa Feldman Barrett/Wall Street Journal)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p9#a240518p9</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/think-ai-can-perceive-emotion-think-again-2b4c7d29?st=nh9vfa010ygm3g4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i9.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p9#a240518p9" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Lisa Feldman Barrett / <A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/">Wall Street Journal</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/think-ai-can-perceive-emotion-think-again-2b4c7d29?st=nh9vfa010ygm3g4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion</A></B></SPAN> — Training algorithms on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead. — Imagine that you are interviewing for a job.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 08:40:14 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p9#a240518p9</guid></item><item> <title>Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn't considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China's disinformation (New York Times)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p8#a240518p8</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/business/tiktok-taiwan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s00.-mDC.73vyEq63JG5r&smid=url-share"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i8.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p8#a240518p8" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/business/tiktok-taiwan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s00.-mDC.73vyEq63JG5r&smid=url-share">Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn't considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China's disinformation</A></B></SPAN> — The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 05:35:06 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p8#a240518p8</guid></item><item> <title>A look at Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness, created by Eric Schmidt's thinktank, focusing on the use of AI and other tech in warfare (Caroline Haskins/The Guardian)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p7#a240518p7</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i7.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p7#a240518p7" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Caroline Haskins / <A HREF="http://www.theguardian.com/">The Guardian</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology">A look at Palantir-sponsored AI Expo for National Competitiveness, created by Eric Schmidt's thinktank, focusing on the use of AI and other tech in warfare</A></B></SPAN> — America's military industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 02:30:01 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p7#a240518p7</guid></item><item> <title>Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China (Yuichi Shiga/Nikkei Asia)</title> <link>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p6#a240518p6</link> <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="https://t.co/BoEibi5LfG"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/i6.jpg"></A><P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p6#a240518p6" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Yuichi Shiga / <A HREF="https://asia.nikkei.com/">Nikkei Asia</A>:<BR><SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="https://t.co/BoEibi5LfG">Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China</A></B></SPAN> — EV models get priority as Japanese automakers struggle in Chinese market — Honda plans to introduce new models in China faster than in its other markets.</P>]]></description> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 01:40:01 -0400</pubDate> <guid>http://www.techmeme.com/240518/p6#a240518p6</guid></item></channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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