A Vienna-based privacy campaign group filed complaints in 11 European countries against Meta, saying the global tech giant’s planned privacy policy change would allow “unlawful” use of personal data for artificial intelligence technology.
The complaints brought by the European Center for Digital Rights found out that Meta— via its new privacy policy — plans to use all public and non-public user data that it has collected since 2007 “for any undefined type of current and future AI technology”. The undefined AI technology can ingest personal data from any source and share any information with undefined “third parties” — all without getting the user’s opt-in consent required by law.
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Microsoft to invest $3.2 bn in AI in Sweden
Microsoft has said that it will invest 33.7 billion kronor ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, its biggest investment in the country. The group will train 2,50,000 people by 2027 to boost AI knowledge and competence
and also increase capacity at its three data centres in the country, it said.
“Microsoft’s largest investment in our history in Sweden” would enable the Scandinavian country “to build world-leading AI data centre infrastructure,” the company’s president and vice-chair Brad Smith said at a press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf
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Kristersson. In Sweden, Microsoft will provide more than 20,000 graphic processing units (GPUs), needed for training AI models, and will boost capacity at its data centres in Sandviken, Gavle and Staffanstorp.
AMD unveils new AI chips to challenge Nvidia
AMD has announced its new artificial intelligence chips for everything from cutting-edge data centres to advanced laptops, ramping up its challenge to the runaway market leader Nvidia.
AMD has emerged as one of Nvidia’s most serious contenders and CEO Lisa Su said the firm’s next-generation processors will rival the top offerings from competitors. “AI is our number one priority, and we’re at the beginning of an incredibly exciting time for the industry as AI transforms virtually every business, improves our quality of life and reshapes every part of the computing market,” Su said during a keynote speech at Computex, Taiwan’s premier tech expo.
Cisco to invest $1 bn in AI startups
Cisco Systems plans to invest $1 billion in startups that are working on what it calls “secure and reliable” artificial intelligence services, part of a push to be a bigger player in AI technology. The maker of networking hardware and software has already committed about $200
million of the money and is making investments in Mistral AI, Scale AI and Cohere, the company said at its Cisco Live conference in Las Vegas.
Cisco is looking for ways to tap into the frenzy of interest in AI computing. It’s already incorporated the software into some products, including its well-known Webex conferencing service, and has announced a tie-up with Nvidia to sell products based on
that company’s chips.
