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Lobbying Derails Act Regulations Making Legislation Unworkable
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The Act used to have some really useful regulations, based on years of work, then got radically changed at the last minute thanks to lobbyists, which made it totally unworkable, and now here we are.
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Microsoft’s Anti-Openness Stance on AI Platform Questioned
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Very strange anti-openness argument from Microsoft President Brad Smith in response to my open source AI platform advocacy.
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 10 novembre 2023
I thought Microsoft had long abandoned its anti open source stance.
Doesn't Azure run on Linux? https://t.co/I2SYh4gTMjVery strange anti-openness argument from Microsoft President Brad Smith in response to my open source AI platform advocacy. I thought Microsoft had long abandoned its anti open source stance.
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Microsoft President Questions Meta’s Open Source AI Credibility
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A curious response from Microsoft President Brad Smith, in response to my advocacy for open source AI platforms at the Paris Peace Forum today. He claimed Llama isn't open because Meta is controlled by one person while OpenAI is trustworthy because it is owned by a non-profit.
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Software Companies Face Tax Rule Changes on Engineer Salaries
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Fun fact which is in no way fun: software businesses are currently sweating related issue. A change in rules lead to engineer salaries moving to presumptively capitalized versus presumptively deductible, which has effect of ballooning current-year taxable income of cos.
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Cryptocurrency Executives Face Legal Accountability Issues
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That phrase is a legal formula and if you Ctrl-F it in, say, various indictments, you will see it used not infrequently regarding cryptocurrency executives who have a very casual relationship with their responsibilities under the law.
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Management Knowledge and Recklessness in AI Accountability
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That sounds like a fact which might in the future be phrased as "[management] knew or were reckless in not knowing…"
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OpenAI needs greater transparency says user
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I can imagine. But some transparency from OAI side would be great
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Tax Cliffs Impact Small Business Behavior and Policy
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The term of art in policy circles for this sort of thing is a “tax cliff” and you can see them in many places relevant to small businesses, including in places where it is abundantly unlikely that it is a reporting artifact versus an actual change in behavior.
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Service Degradation and Transparency Concerns for Paying AI Customers
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that could be a theory, I would love to see more transparency around this. So I could be more supportive of this. By the end there are a lot of paying customers for this service, and regression degrading without notice seems to be a big no-no?