If the pan-European campaign from 2012-2018 for text- & data-mining (TDM) "the right to read is the right to mine" was conducted today, it would probably have failed… Whether this campaign succeeds or not depends on the depth of the #corruption behind the legitimization of AI.
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Apple Intelligence Implementation Based on Official Paper
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Amazon Ads Updates Address URL-Level Reporting Pressure
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Here's my Friday story about the @AmazonAds updates, which come as advertisers put more pressure on adtech vendors to provide more URL-level reporting. The updates follow the recent @AdalyticsHQ report and letters from @MarshaBlackburn & @SenBlumenthal
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Microsoft Removes Usage Limits for Copilot Voice and Think Deeper
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Copilot users have spoken! We’ve seen incredible growth for Voice and Think Deeper, and have more and more people telling us they’ve hit those usage limits. Sooo…we’re getting rid of them. https://t.co/tczuRbjVP5 pic.twitter.com/giCyPDAWrL
— Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman) 25 février 2025Copilot users have spoken! We’ve seen incredible growth for Voice and Think Deeper, and have more and more people telling us they’ve hit those usage limits. Sooo…we’re getting rid of them. https://
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DataStax Enters New Phase with Industry Appreciation
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Even as I've competed against DataStax I've always appreciated their tech and the way the company operates. Great tech, great people. Good luck in this new phase.
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Claude’s Growing Fanbase Celebrates Daily AI Moments
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A small but enthusiastic following has formed at Anthropic, checking in on Claude's progress. Claude provides its followers daily moments of delight, like deciding to misname its Squirtle, "TSUNMAI!"
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Grok-2 Open-Source Release Plans from Elon Musk
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Indeed I was talking about *open-source* SOTA large models but Grok-2 will be soon open-source, right @elonmusk
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Inside Google DeepMind: Deep dive into current operations
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Deep dive video on what happens inside Google Deepmind today.
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The Search Bar Wars: Google Faces Multiple AI Competitors
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The war for the Internet was really the war for the search bar. There hasn’t been a real contender to Google in decades and now there are multiple at once. https://t.co/b6btcAiBAM
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 25 février 2025The war for the Internet was really the war for the search bar. There hasn’t been a real contender to Google in decades and now there are multiple at once.

