Novelist wants class action against Meta
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Can’t replace humans

IBM  does not appear to be successful in its cunning plan to replace expensive senior programmers with AI.