A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann
In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Tweets: @marissalnew , @agg...
Sources: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Germany, France, and other EU countries due to stringent labor laws and prolonged union negotiations
After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe. Tweets: @sidhubaba , @car...
Meta submits data to the EU showing that pop up content warnings stopped Facebook users sharing 25% of flagged posts and 38% on Instagram; TikTok reports 29%
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine boosted European investments in dual-use tech like autonomous drones, rockets for satellites, and more
which has long been a taboo in Europe — at record levels. By @aggichristiane https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
After delivery startup Gorillas raised $1B in October, sources say it is drastically cutting costs, reducing staff benefits, and considering closing warehouses
After Germany's rapid food delivery startup Gorillas Technologies GmbH closed a $1 billion funding round last October … Tweets: @eliotwb , @aggichristiane , @cdanuloff , @aulia , a...
Amazon's plans for four large French distribution centres have been blocked or abandoned in the past six months over environmental and political concerns
Campaigners are successfully winning support in French courts to block Amazon.com Inc.'s plans to construct distribution facilities in the country. Tweets: @aggichristiane Tweets: ...
Ericsson CEO says the company might have made payments to ISIS to gain access to transport routes in Iraq in 2018, causing shares to drop by over 8.5%
Ericsson may have made payments to the ISIS terror organization to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq, in a shock admission following years of regulatory investigation...