
Novelist wants class action against Meta
Stealing his books to train its llama
Novelist Christopher Farnsworth wants a class action copyright lawsuit against Meta Platforms for stealing his books and those of other writers to train its Llama artificial intelligence large language model.

Oracle could take control of Ampere Computing
Churn out chips of its very own
Oracle is close to taking control of Ampere Computing which could mean that it ends up churning out chips for its own datacentres without needing to lean on AMD or Nvidia.

AI offers no significant improvements to developers
Introduced more bugs
A recent Uplevel report found that AI was not the helpful tool developers and their bosses thought it might be.

OpenAI wants more datacentres
Will use more power than cities
OpenAI has pitched the Biden administration the need for massive data centres that could each use as much power as entire cities.

IBM’s AI is still half-baked
Can’t replace humans
IBM does not appear to be successful in its cunning plan to replace expensive senior programmers with AI.