Saying “behavioral remedy” would be ineffective, EU officials say it might be necessary to force Google to divest of part of its adtech biz if found to be in violation of EU law. My story from yesterday about the new antitrust case against the tech giant: https://
tinyurl.com/5h48wyxm
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EU Considers Forcing Google to Divest Adtech Business
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EU AI Act analysis: milestone or misstep for regulation
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¿Hito en positivo o tiro en el pie? No es oro todo lo que reluce con la #AIAct. Análisis desde la sociedad civil, la academia y la empresa, en clave de derechos humanos, innovación y geopolítica https://
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ptores-innovadores/politica-digital/europa/20230615/primeras-reacciones-europea-inteligencia-artificial-entusiasmo-criticas/771673096_0.html
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Half of Marketing and Logistics Workers Fear AI Job Loss
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“Roughly half of workers in advertising & marketing (51%) and business support and logistics (46%) worried AI will soon take their job – twice the level of concern overall.”
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Model Contributions Comparison: Historical Performance Analysis
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They contributed far more a while ago than gpt4
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AI Regulation Risks Innovation in Britain Says Institute
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Great profile for @InstituteGC report on AI and the future of Britain. “New rigid and onerous legislative requirements on businesses could hold back AI innovation and reduce our ability to respond quickly and in a proportionate way to future technological advances”
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Zepz $5B Fintech Unicorn Plans M&A Push, New Wallet
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New and exclusive: Zepz, the $5 billion fintech unicorn backed by Accel and TCV, is planning a big push on M&A and looking to roll out a new digital wallet product, hoping to move past the pain of laying off 26% of its workforce.
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Dreams Coming True: AI Technologies Years Away from Mass Adoption
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Yeah. A lot of your dreams are coming true. Although they still are years away from the masses.
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New Jobs Generative AI Will Create in the Future
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These are the new jobs generative #AI could create in the future https://
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Distribution and Compute as AI Competitive Moats
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It's pretty obvious to me that whoever has the distribution and compute wins. Distribution allows you to acquire customers at zero and compute allows you to discount beyond other providers. Model/data is not a moat. If you build something good people will train on your outputs.
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Midjourney’s Temporary Model Moat Will Disappear
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I've said this a million times, midjourney only had a temporary model moat that is going to disappear.