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Web publication & idea forum based in Brussels, discussing the future of the internet from a broad perspective on society's digital evolution ➡https://t.co/bsL4ACvMbM
🚨 The CEO of Mistral is proposing a revenue-based levy on all commercial providers placing AI models in Europe.
Jacob Helberg says one of Europe’s biggest challenges to building companies is cultural: they’re just not risk-takers like Americans are. "It's really hard for Europe to put those pieces together because the culture in Europe has not been favorable to encouraging risk-taking, which is necessary—it's the lifeblood of starting a business." "You need to have a risk-taking culture—and then they have the unit economics problem where it's just really expensive to build stuff in Europe because your energy bills are really high. You have to spend a ton of money on legal fees before you even start." "It's not that starting things in Europe will be impossible, but they have major headwinds." "We have invested a lot of effort into having truthful, candid conversations with our friends in Europe to actually share our concerns." "When you actually care about someone, you can actually be candid with them. Clear is kind." "We care about Europe. We want them to be strong, and so we are trying to draw their attention to policy issues that we think are serious headwinds for them." @jacobhelberg with @eriktorenberg
Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists bbc.in/4rD8mNS
🇪🇺 EU Parliament Voted on Ending Chat Control of Private Chats The European Parliament voted to extend rules allowing tech companies to scan private messages for illegal content until 2027, though with tighter limits. Lawmakers say monitoring should target suspects with judicial authorization and avoid scanning end-to-end encrypted messages, but the EU Commission and some governments still push for broader powers. The battle over Chat Control is far from settled, and the future of private digital communication in Europe now hangs on the next round of negotiations. (Read the full post, link in the reply.)
@TechCrunch Merriam-Webster is suing #OpenAI. Plagiarism (noun): The act of stealing someone's work. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (noun): The exact same thing, but executed by an $80 billion Silicon Valley startup.
AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights ft.trib.al/n0yG14Z | opinion
