Arnaud Dufour

Rollout complete!

Apple lance un Google killer au service des marques lareclame.fr/apple-visual-i… via @lareclame

Shopping We’re experimenting with making shopping simpler and faster to find, compare, and buy products in ChatGPT. ✅ Improved product results ✅ Visual product details, pricing, and reviews ✅ Direct links to buy Product results are chosen independently and are not ads. These shopping improvements are starting to roll out today to Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users everywhere ChatGPT is available. It will take a few days to complete the rollout.

Marketers 📣 Here’s your cheat sheet for collecting and using first-party data to power AI and drive profitable growth. goo.gle/4idCuvv

Lancement d'IT4Future, le centre de compétences Numérique Responsable vaudois Mardi 11 févr. 2025, 15:30 - 19:00 à Impact Hub, Avenue Bergières 10, Lausanne linkedin.com/events/lanceme…

Mastodon becomes nonprofit to make sure it’s never ruined by billionaire CEO arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Agence de la transition écologique - Numérique ademe.fr/presse/communi…

In the Supreme Court, TikTok will make a last-ditch effort to swerve a ban in the US. Vogue Business breaks down the potential outcomes. voguebusiness.com/story/companie…

India’s payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard tcrn.ch/3DZ5rvD

1,5 °C en plus au thermomètre en 2024 : quelles leçons en tirer ? theconversation.com/1-5-c-en-plus-…

La décroissance ? C’est bien gentil, mais… Thomas Wagner interroge Timothée Parrique bonpote.com/la-decroissanc…

Présidente de la commission affaires économiques de l'Assemblée, je regrette que la présidente @YaelBRAUNPIVET refuse l'examen par ma commission de la proposition de résolution contre l'accord Mercosur. Alors que les effets seront désastreux pour l'agriculture et l'industrie.

Went on @jaketapper's show to talk about the online response to Luigi Mangione and my piece here: wired.com/story/internet…

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a stablecoin that we built with my team at @Meta. It would’ve solved global payments at scale. Prior to announcing the project, we spent months briefing key regulators in DC and abroad. We then announced the project in June 2019 alongside 28 companies. Two weeks later, I was called to testify in front of both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, which was the starting point of two years of nonstop work and changes to appease lawmakers and regulators. By spring of 2021 (yes they slow played us at every step), we had addressed every last possible regulatory concern across financial crime, money laundering, consumer protection, reserve management, buffers, and so much more, and we were ready to launch. We had worked on a slow rollout of a limited pilot that some members of the Fed’s Board of Governors were supportive of. At last, Chair Jay Powell was ready to let us move forward in a limited way. The story, as I heard it, is that Jay Powell was told by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at one of their biweekly meetings that allowing this project to move forward was “political suicide,” and she would not have his back if he let it happen. I wasn’t in the room when this conversation happened, so take these words with a grain of salt, but effectively this was the moment Libra was killed. Shortly thereafter, the Fed organized calls with all the participating banks, and the Fed’s general counsel read a prepared statement to each of them, saying: “We can’t stop you from moving forward and launching, but we are not comfortable with you doing so.” And just like that, it was over. One essential point is worth making here. There was no legal or regulatory angle left for the government or regulators to kill the project. It was 100% a political kill—one that was executed through intimidation of captive banking institutions. That was the hardest part of this story for me personally. Not that we had failed, but that America, this country I immigrated to and became a proud citizen of because of its rule of law and value system, behaved in such a way for political reasons. It was a very tough pill to swallow. The bright side of the story, though, was the many learnings from this wild ride. By the end of the project, we had made so many concessions to get a thumbs-up that the whole design of the network became a Frankenstein of our initial ambitions. We also learned the biggest lesson of all, which is that if you’re trying to build an open money grid for the world—eventually moving trillions of dollars a day, designed to be here 100 years from now—you have to build it on the most neutral, decentralized, unassailable network and asset, which, hands down, is Bitcoin. And now this is what many of us who went through this scarring journey are building together at @Lightspark. And this time, we won’t stop until we get it done!

Microplastiques, nanoplastiques : quels effets sur la santé ? theconversation.com/microplastique…

ChatGPT pour les étudiants : 10 astuces pour réviser, s’entraîner, résumer un cours… blogdumoderateur.com/chatgpt-etudia… via @BlogModerateur

WordPress intègre son nouveau design system dans Figma : comment y accéder blogdumoderateur.com/wordpress-inte… via @BlogModerateur

Personal updates: I started a new position as Full Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Communication. @koebenhavns_uni @UCPH_Research. We will establish a new Center focused on supporting digital and computational research across all the departments at the Faculty of Humanities. Several senior staff positions will be announced soon. I will continue with my work at the University of Bologna, where we just incorporated a new spin-off with @almacube called Mithril Minds (mithrilminds.ai): we plan to develop a novel generative AI solution for legal compliance. Follow us for updates: @mithrilminds. Lastly, we have exciting developments at Odoma (odoma.ch), with several openings coming in 2025 for engineers based anywhere in Switzerland. @wrongworld72 @mr56k. I very much look forward to all these new developments. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss any of the above with me.