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Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

Great article about the quest around data all the bigtech platforms need for their AI development. (giftlink)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-gian…

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI will be available by the end of June (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/stack-ove…

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models | TechCrunch
Stack Overflow, the developer Q&A site, has inked a licensing agreement with OpenAI to supply data to its models.

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/fo…

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

Amid regulatory pressure around cloud vendor lock-in, AWS follows Google and drops egress fees for moving data out of its ecosystem; Microsoft's fees remain (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/amazon-…

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers | TechCrunch
AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called "egress fees" attached.

Paris-based Stonal, which offers a data management platform for real estate owners and investors in Europe and launched StonalGPT earlier in 2024, raised €100M (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2024/05/06/stonal-secu

Stonal Secures near €100M investment from Aareon for real estate data management
Today real estate data management platform Stonal raised up to €100 million in a strategic investment by Aareon, a European provider of SaaS solutions. Founded in 2017, Stonal’s mission is to deliver data quality at scale for asset owners and investors. Its collaborative AI-powered platform extracts information from documents and blueprints, creating an accurate and continuously updated database on buildings open to stakeholders such as property managers, surveyors, and insurers. It…

After IAB appeals, the EU's highest court rules that IAB Europe's advertising model uses personal data and is therefore subject to GDPR (Cynthia Kroet/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/07/iab-eu…

IAB Europe’s advertising bidding model uses personal data, court rules
After clarification from Luxembourg, the Belgian Court of Appeal will now rule on the case.

Paris-based Zama, an open-source cryptography startup developing fully homomorphic encryption technology for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $73M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2024/03/07/bl

Blockchain-focused cryptography startup Zama raises $73M to protect data in use - SiliconANGLE
Blockchain-focused cryptography startup Zama raises $73M to protect data in use - SiliconANGLE