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Weekly DaaS Roundup for May 23
the trusted news feed on Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) companies and products
Welcome to the Weekly DaaS Roundup! Before we proceed with the latest news from the ever changing world of data, a quick moment of silence for the English language as yet another lazy “bro” based portmanteau (move over bromance) enters the vernacular.
‘Bromakase’ is the New Steak House by Brett Anderson (New York Times)
Top Story of the Week
Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training by Ashley Belanger (ArsTechnica)
A quiet policy change and automatic opt-in. Now your most questionable Slacks and ill advised gifs can take on a beautiful second act as AI generated lasagna recipes?
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News and Interesting Reads
OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million by Alexandra Bruell, Sam Schechner, Deepa Seetharaman (WSJ)
Microsoft Asks Hundreds of China-Based AI Staff to Consider Relocating Amid U.S.-China Tensions by Raffaele Huang and Yoko Kubota (WSJ)
Data Centers, AI - Can our power grid sustain it? Goldman Sachs
What is Real? “Icon of Transparency” and the challenge of fighting misinformation by Mark Wilson (FastCompany)
How to Price a Data Asset by Abraham Thomas
Election officials are role-playing AI threats to protect democracy by Lauren Feiner (The Verge)
AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails by Ron Amadeo (Arstechinca)
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M&A and Funding
AI MUSIC GENERATOR SUNO RAISES $125M - jam out to a sample at the end of this letter.
The Long Read
As the LLM Arms Race intensifies - we must consider that not everything that goes into a model can and should stay there.
Machine Unlearning in 2024 by Ken Liu
Podcast Recommendation
CB Insights Founder Anand Sanwal - Tech Narratives are NOT Backed By Data on World of DaaS podcast
Anand Sanwal is the founder of CB Insights, a business analytics platform and global database of intel on technology companies. Anand was CEO of CB Insights for 14 years and recently stepped into the role of executive chairman.
the World of DaaS channel surpassed 1.4 million (!!) views (and 15,000 subscribers) on YouTube: the data army grows stronger!
Random Art(tificial Hallucination) of the Week
prompt: A computer consuming data in the style of an 80s metal band cover art
Some catchy tunes - prompt: A pop-punk banger about AI ruining human creativity.
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