News publishers are up in arms about their content being used to train AI that could cut them out – forcing tech cos to the negotiating table. Our story, brought to you from London, NY & Berlin @CristinaCriddle @DanielThomasLDN @annaknicolaou @laurapitel
ECONOMY
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Binance faces SEC lawsuit as MiCA regulation approaches
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There's been no shortage of pain for Binance lately – most recently, the US SEC issued a lawsuit against the firm and its CEO. Notably, Binance has said welcomes the EU's MiCA regulation, which would harmonise rules for crypto. But MiCA won't come into effect until… 2024.
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Making Britain’s AI Dreams Reality: Policy and Strategy
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link: https://
economist.com/britain/2023/0
6/14/how-to-make-britains-ai-dreams-reality
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Britain’s AI Talent Drain and GPU Training Challenges
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Heavy hitting piece on "how to make Britain’s AI dreams reality" in @TheEconomist
. "as talent flows West, it takes its intellectual property along. “The reality is that the number of people who have seen GPUs melt because of 24/7 training jobs is very small,” says Nathan Benaich -
Contradictions in AI Surpassing Humans and Employment Impact
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@ylecun how can it be that you think there is "no question" that AI would surpass human intelligence, AND that you think "this is not going to put a lot of people out of work permanently"… why such certainty?
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AI’s Impact on Future Global Politics and Power Dynamics
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Good overview of what’s coming with AI and how it will bring about a very different kind of politics @ianbremmer https://
ted.com/talks/ian_brem
mer_the_next_global_superpower_isn_t_who_you_think/c
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Midjourney staffing contradiction: huge team vs tiny team claims
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By the way, I quote your tweet above: "then we have a billing@midjourney.com that staffed by a huge team." So I thought you had a huge team watching this stuff, but now I see you have a tiny team, correcting your earlier statement. But you see where I got the "big team" from.
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GPT threatens Google’s search dominance and business model
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It is to the business model. Google hasn't shown me how it will continue making money if it doesn't win in search. GPT has taken a LOT of my friends away from Google's search, which is its real cash cow. I saw this happen in Alta Vista days when Google came along. It took
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Google’s data advantage over OpenAI explained
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Yeah, Google has: All my email.
All my photos.
All my contacts.
All my TV data.
All my locations.
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Government TikTok Ban and Surveillance Laws Spark Concerns
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At what cost? But you are right. And you didn't bring up other things, the government tried to pass a TikTok ban but shoved it full of horrible surveillance laws. I'm mostly making a point that our politicians keep selling us to the Chinese. Clearly won't stop anytime