Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. But the pandemic supercharged the market. Covid pandemic lockdowns and the widespread move to work-from-home spurred brands relying on old technology to modernize their organizations. According to Statista, worldwide spending on digital transformation […]
LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service
LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the US — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI models.” […]
Elon Musk’s X taken to court in Ireland for grabbing EU user data to train Grok without consent
Elon Musk’s X is being taken to court in Ireland for using Europeans’ data to train AI models, RTE reported late on Tuesday. The development relates to the social media platform’s decision last month to process user data to train its “Grok” AI model without notifying or asking people if they’re okay with that. Last […]
Jumia plans to raise more than $100 million in secondary shares to drive stalled user growth
African e-commerce company Jumia is selling 20 million American depositary shares over the next couple of weeks, TechCrunch has learned. The at-the-market transaction is to take advantage of strong results despite a volatile market. Given Jumia’s share price of around $ 5.70 when the stock market opened on Tuesday, the e-commerce company could potentially raise […]
Privacy watchdog says it’s ‘surprised’ by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training
X, formerly Twitter, quietly pushed out a change that appears to default user data into its AI training pool for Grok, a move that was spotted by users of the platform on Friday. Grok is the name of a conversational AI, or large language model (LLM), developed by Elon Musk-owned X and intended as a […]