"I'd rather it would have stayed more of a scientific level," he said. "But it's become too popular for that." So, let’s distinguish between AI and Generative AI. axios.com/2024/10/21/ai-…

The popular AI seach generator Perplexity is not only copyright law. It is breaking trademark law by making up fake sections of news stories and falsely attributing the words to publishers, according to a new lawsuit against the start-up. wired.com/story/dow-jone…

⁦Dear Suchir Balaji⁩ -you are a hero nytimes.com/2024/10/23/tec…

The definition of AI open source does not include Meta’s Llama. meta disagrees of course techcrunch.com/2024/10/28/we-…

The Trump victory is a victory for corporate tech, VCs and crypto powerbrokers. The implications for transparency, civil liberties, democratic governance and accountability as well as a shaping of US (foreign) policies through their interests is one reason for concern #techcoup

This is so dumb 🤦🏼‍♀️ nytimes.com/2024/11/14/tec…

This is almost unbelievable how ‘smart’ google has been nytimes.com/2024/11/20/tec…

I really hope Meredith Whittaker is right in this prediction that everyone is falling out of love with big tech in 2025 and that the alternative truely decentralised movement, where individuals are in control, will gain traction wired.com/story/the-begi…

Content overload. Open source and digital sovereignty, manipulation of students, the human-centric approach and digital thieves - get our bi-monthly newsletter ym0y.mjt.lu/nl3/S74tPohk3n…

We're about to witness an at-scale experiment in what it means for people to create and consume large quantities of video content that is photorealistic but fake. axios.com/2024/12/10/ope…

Lifelike A.I. personas are weaving their way into our human lives and journalists are anthropomorphising them when saying it is af if they have emotional intelligence. Ask the ceo’s of these companies if their kids are allowed to use them. they’ll say no nytimes.com/2024/12/13/tec…

Europeans Sign Up for Bluesky In Masses While They Could Have Built their Own With Mastodon · Dataetisk Tænkehandletank dataethics.eu/europeans-sigh…

A brilliant European open source alternative to Microsoft nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud…

“The marketing of illegal drugs on open platforms is “gaining prominence,” authorities note, while the number of drug transactions on the dark web has decreased in recent years.” wired.com/story/drug-dea…

Interesting read: Chinese generative AI models are hugely popular. Many are open weight (you can use the code, but it is not open about which data it is trained on) Remember we still have a huge model in Europe, open weight also, Mistral. cnbc.com/2024/12/17/chi…

Activists in Berlin put this on the Tesla building ….

Musk calls it a ‘criminal organisation’ and spreads lies about USAid having paid celebrities millions of dollars to support Ukraine. Then he fires almost everybody. An agency that has done so much good in the world 😢 We live on a foundation of lies nytimes.com/2025/02/07/bus…

Hitler was also elected democratically. The USA has gone from a democracy to a dictatorship - poor all the other Americans. All ethical, green companies, e.g Signal, Patagonia, Mozilla, please move your headquartere to Europe

The first major test of the Trump administration’s approach to Big Tech’s power will be how it proceeds in the Google search case. A court has ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly by paying Apple, Mozilla to be standard search engine nytimes.com/2025/03/07/tec…

Chris Anderson (Chris Anderson): "At first glance, this looks like IP theft." [audience applauds] Sam Altman (Sam Altman): "You can clap about that all you want. Enjoy."