I strongly condemn the vile attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Such acts of violence have no place in our society and undermine democracy, our most precious common good.

My thoughts are with PM Fico and his family.

But good to see even Eric Schmidt understands why TikTok isn’t in the relevant market for FTC’s lawsuit to break up Meta, and certainly not remotely close to Google’s for general search as Google’s defense laughable tried to argue. Cheers.

Good perspective. One cx, ”And if the A.I. models are relegated to producing mediocre work, they may have to compete on price rather than quality, which is never good for profit margins.” … unless you’re a monopolist on real-time query/click data that mostly avoids competing.

Google upgrades search engine with ‘AI Overviews’ – risks revenue drain for media companies    nypost.com/2024/05/14/bus… Jason Kint: “By making this move, they’re flipping a switch to replace the open web with their own content to increase their profits – which still today are

In Kyiv, Secretary Antony Blinken plays “Rockin’ in the Free World” in a basement club with a Ukrainian band

It’s Tuesday May 14, 2024.

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the FSB Mar 29, 2023.

1 year & 46 days ago

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Endorse.

The Apple crush ad is basically the government’s antitrust complaint against Apple turned into ad form.

It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker turning his Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.
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Bam, clock starts. Facebook just filed its reply brief seeking cert from SCOTUS to reverse its early defeat to dismiss a Cambridge Analytica case. This comes 6+ years after Facebook began laundering press using exhaustion and complexity to whitewash facts of the scandal. /1

Pure comedy to anyone who attended the antitrust trial. Imagine having to spend $25B per year to maintain your monopoly position and fund dozens and dozens of groups like yours to fight your proxy wars. Weak sauce, anti Silicon Valley. But you do you.

Hey, let’s attack one of the most trusted institutions in journalism with unsourced data, unclear metrics and deceptive claims. 😎 you do you.

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI.  The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati and now, under the

Thank you, The Associated Press. That's how you prevent the normalization and banalization of him and his party.
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Please read. This isn’t just about men and ads for young girls, as horrendous as that is. It’s about how horrendously broken and biased the Facebook/Meta algorithm is, and the unaccountable consequences that impact everything.

precisely. this includes a form of suppression of counterspeech that comes with micro targeted feeds whereas mass media has much the same experience for anyone choosing to consume it.

This supposed BBC News video citing a non-existent report by Bellingcat is 100% fake, and a new entry in the increasingly long list of fake videos using the BBC and Bellingcat in order to spread pro-Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine.