August 8, 20230CommentsProsecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers’ backlash over its possible AI uses (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsSources including current and former Stability AI employees describe a chaotic company led by an inexperienced CEO often unable to deliver on his lofty promises (Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsResearchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
August 8, 20230CommentsChina releases draft rules for limiting the use of facial recognition to “specific purposes and full necessity,” requiring individual approval, and more (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsSources: some global investors including Warburg Pincus and GIC opt out of Ant Group’s proposed share buyback after the company’s valuation was slashed by 70%+ (Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsAustin-based One Model, which uses AI to help employers make recruiting, hiring, layoffs, and other HR decisions, raised $41M led by Riverwood Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsAtlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and edge computing to identify industrial machine failures, raised a $45M Series B led by General Catalyst (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
August 8, 20230CommentsA US judge denies Google a summary judgment in a $5B lawsuit over the way it tracked users’ internet activities in Incognito mode, pushing it closer to a trial (Richard Lawler/The Verge)