Researchers call for transparency on AI tools' carbon footprint; training GPT-3 took an estimated 1.287 GWh of electricity, or what ~120 US homes use in a year
Bloomberg : Tweets: @zachweinberg , @dinabass , @izzyz , @sjmmcd , @brianjjackson , @doctorow , @mattmday , @environment , @katekayereports , @nic__carter , @tante , @bigblackjacobin , and @bloomberg...
Microsoft helped build a robust AI ecosystem in China but the company could be forced to reexamine its relationship with the country under tighter US rules
Through decades of support, Microsoft was an instrumental force helping China become the AI powerhouse it is today. Tweets: @katekayereports and @bennettrich Tweets: Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : It'...
A look at Eric Schmidt's push to profit from an AI cold war between the US and China; CB Insights: Schmidt took part in investing $2B+ in AI-focused companies
both to democracy and to his own interests. https://www.protocol.com/... Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : Schmidt's story is an exploration of how a private sector tech mogul has planted the seeds of Ch...
Open-source data architectures like Iceberg and Hudi, incubated by Netflix and Uber, now form the foundation of products sold to enterprises as data lakehouses
Kate Kaye / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol and @katekayereports Tweets: @protocol : What vendors today call “the lakehouse” is, to many data professionals, just an evolved version of the data lake that...
Technologists say Google's Privacy Budget proposal to reduce fingerprinting is vague, and could create privacy harms and break some of the web's functionality
and chaos online https://digiday.com/... Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : “[Google's] Privacy Budget is kind of poisoning the space,” says @brave's Pete Snyder @pes10k - he and others worry that Google ...
California AG's case examples of CCPA enforcement seem to indicate that companies can't rely on trade groups' blanket opt-out tools not tailored to CCPA
For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state's privacy law. Tweets: @chronotope , @katekayereports , @jason_kint , @pro...
After a delay, Facebook says it is starting a brand safety audit by industry body MRC, set to complete by the end of 2021; Twitter has started the audit process
Kate Kaye / Digiday : Tweets: @katekayereports See also Mediagazer Tweets: Kate Kaye / @katekayereports : So, Facebook's brand safety audit with MRC finally started after a delay. Meanwhile Twitter's...
Google says it won't build itself Privacy Sandbox backdoors, but whether it will allow itself to use individual-level data from Chrome users remains unclear
Kate Kaye / Digiday : Tweets: @kyotonio See also Mediagazer Tweets: Antoine Bourlon / @kyotonio : “Google's promise doesn't address the elephant in the room: The company may not be opening a proverbi...
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financial Times : Big Tech ...
Senate votes 50-48 to repeal Obama-era regulations requiring that ISPs ask before sharing customer data
and how to stop them Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : The Motherboard Guide to VPNs Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek : Could Killing of FCC Privacy Rules Lead to End of Net Neutrality? Roger...