Talks break down

Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike on Thursday, causing another work stoppage in the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with significant game studios broke down over AI protections.

Scraping from other models is a bad thing

A new study published in Nature has found that training AI models using datasets created by other AI models can lead to “model collapse,” where the models start producing increasingly nonsensical outputs over time.

Most voluntary

The maker of expensive esoteric management software, which no one is quite sure what it does, SAP, has announced a restructuring programme which will impact between 9,000 and 10,000 SAPS by early 2025.

Cyber security insurance is a mugs’ game

Earlier this year Warren Buffett, who has his paws in a lot of insurance companies, warned them that it would be unwise to provide cyber security insurance policies because these would always run at a loss.

Wall Street not impressed

SK Hynix announced that its second-quarter profit has reached its highest level in six years as it maintains its leadership in advanced memory chips critical for artificial intelligence computing.

Could be seen in H20 chips bound for China

For the first time, Nvidia has approved Samsung Electronics' fourth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM3) chips for use in its processors.

The Chinese are only going to steal it anyway

Facebook Cyber Leader, Mark Zuckerberg claims that it is far better for the US if AI was open sauce.

World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild is Microsoft’s second-largest union

More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union.

Had a stolen identity and AI-enhanced images

Security outfit KnowBe4 revealed that a remote software engineer they hired was a North Korean spy using a stolen identity and AI-enhanced images.

Too much like hard work

The Taiwanese press is abuzz about the fact that TSMC has turned down NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's request to set up a dedicated packaging manufacturing line for NVIDIA's products.