Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in France, according to local reports.
BIG TECH
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France’s Regulatory Landscape: A Paradox for AI Development
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Big Tech: "France is the place to build AI due to the regulatory landscape there." France: "You need a license to even do sport." (Already in the 80s 90s, people joked that France was one of the few functional Communist countries.)
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Elon Musk Free Speech Advocacy X Platform Moderation Clarification
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Elon Musk is advocating free speech. He is not advocating zero censorship. Saying X is like Telegram is too far-fetched. Remember this.
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Cloudflare employee’s daughter knows company products
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Given that her dad works for Cloudflare (from his bio), it doesn't seem implausible that she knows where her dad works, and some of the product offerings it might have.
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Stop SB 1047: Preventing AI Regulation Precedent
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STOP SB 1047 "We must prevent AI regulation from becoming normalized and block any precedent in one jurisdiction from shaping AI governance elsewhere, whether directly or by extraterritorial influence." – V. Boucher, http://
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Windows 95 Launch: 29 Years Anniversary with Start Me Up
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#Otd 29 years ago: Windows 95 launched to the tune of "Start Me Up." pic.twitter.com/btePQbkHq2
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) 24 août 2024#Otd 29 years ago: Windows 95 launched to the tune of "Start Me Up."
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Google Appoints Former Character AI CEO as Gemini Co-Leader
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That didn’t take long. https://
theinformation.com/briefings/goog
le-makes-former-character-ai-ceo-shazeer-a-co-leader-of-gemini-ai
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AWS CEO Statement on AI and Developer Coding Corrected
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That’s not what he said. Read the transcript: https://
businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-develo
pers-stop-coding-ai-takes-over-2024-8
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Grok 2 Trained at Oracle Data Center
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Special thanks to @Oracle at whose data center Grok 2 was trained
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xAI Team Achievement Recognized by Industry Leader
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Great work by the @xAI team! Thanks also to our suppliers & contractors who went the extra mile!