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Microsoft Corp. and the UK Government have signed a five-year agreement, effective Nov. 1, to enhance access to Microsoft’s AI-powered products and services. news.microsoft.com/source/emea/fe…

Here’s why OpenAI’s “stored memories” feature is a security and privacy nightmare. And most people don’t even know it is now “remembering” things about you between chats, in addition to various things it may come across on the web.

Ireland's Online Safety Code requires qualifying platforms to protect people, especially children, from harmful content involving cyberbullying, promotion of self-harm or suicide, incitement to hatred, violence, terrorism and child abuse material. cnam.ie/coimisiun-na-m…

"In plain terms, the law – and enforcement – is about protecting ordinary people who are sometimes unfairly exploited by powerful companies wielding the relationship imbalance to their advantage." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… Thomas Poell Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Bruce Mutsvairo Tommy Tse Arturo Arriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun

AI's ability to make and assist important decisions is fraught: on one hand, AI *often* classifies things very well, at speed and scale outstripping any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other, AI is sometimes *very* wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful. 1/

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My latest paper with Blue Miaoran 董渺然 : a scoping review revealing the secrets of the #chemicalindustry. To increase earning capacity, pervasive conflicts of interests and the systematic production of ignorance are central strategies for this sector. dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Marc-André Gagnon & I just dropped our new open access scoping review, and it’s about how researchers have been digging into internal corporate documents to find out what chemical companies don’t want us to know. 📑: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 📑: doi.org/10.1002/cesm.1… #newpaper

I’m nearly off this platform but some we want to reach are still here, I use it this time to encourage you to look at our report on Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy - it pushes hard against X type platforms and their power to harm. LSE Media & Communications

Big Pharma middlemen are jacking up prices by as much as 7,736%, per the FTC and MorePerfectUnion Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, are marking up the prices of specialty generic drugs and have made over $7 billion in excess revenue in the last 5 years.

"[CBC's] investigation revealed how the veterinary industry, through exclusive distribution deals between pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, limits who can purchase and sell pet medications." cbc.ca/news/canada/pe…

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Meta released an anonymous survey through Politico as “advertising partners.” I don’t even want to get into the questions in the survey, but the last one was so ridiculous, it made me laugh harder than today’s Ottawa storm that nearly blew me into a backflip.

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Breaking news: My co-authored paper with Marc-André Gagnon has skyrocketed into the top 10% of most-viewed papers in the journal for 2023! 🎉 Thanks to everyone who read it, cited it, or accidentally opened. Hard work wins. Caffeine survives. Sleep? Still pending.

In Shel Silverstein’s 1981 prediction about AI tools, my favorite part is the illustration of the baby doing homework inside a machine. It’s just like the 700 Indian engineers at Builder.ai pretending to be AI