“See, when we told you in HR orientation that you were absolutely positively not allowed to use a candidate’s race as a factor, and that we would lose a suit if we did that, we were correctly summarizing the law. We took our lumps for this.”
REGULATION
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Tech Industry Reckoning: Illegal Hiring Practices Need Consequences
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I would not mind the tech industry reckoning with this, but nobody’s project plan for the corner is opening old cans of worms on how there were pervasively illegal hiring plans for a few years. Still, would be nice to have consequences to be able to tell people the next time.
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Cohere and Dell Partner on Secure Enterprise AI Agents Platform
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We’re partnering with @Dell to accelerate secure, agentic enterprise AI solutions. Dell will be the first provider to offer our secure agents platform, Cohere North, to enterprises on-premises, which is crucial for regulated industries handling sensitive data
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Historical AI Doomsday Predictions Have Consistently Proven Wrong
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These are the same kinds of shoddy, lazy, considerations that we've had many times before with resources, overpopulation, nuclear energy, particle colliders, biotechnology, GMOs, climate change, etc. And historically, EVERY SINGLE TIME the doomers were COMPLETELY wrong.
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US economy driven by extraction and grift over innovation
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Too much of the US economic activity revolves around wealth *extraction* and naked grift. This is far bigger problem than anything else that features in the daily headlines.
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EU Commission Refers Five Countries to Court for DSA Non-Compliance
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Commission decides to refer CZECHIA, SPAIN, CYPRUS, POLAND and PORTUGAL to the Court of Justice of the European Union due to lack of effective implementation of the Digital Services Act https://
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External drivers of change in regulated tech industries
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Having worked in tech for years, and in several highly regulated industries (consumer credit for instance), I've long ago given up on any hope that those industries can be changed from *within*. hence my focus on the external drivers of change now.
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EU invests €7.3 billion in Horizon Europe for AI competitiveness
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EU invests €7.3 billion from Horizon Europe to enhance its competitiveness and talent growth https://
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sscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1146
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EU Launches European Vulnerability Database for Digital Security
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EU launches a European vulnerability database to boost its digital security | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
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nches-european-vulnerability-database-boost-its-digital-security
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TikTok ad repository found in DSA breach by Commission
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Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's ad repository in breach of the Digital Services Act https://
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#digitaleu #DSA #innovation #technology @DigitalEU @ArturHabant @elaniazito @BetaMoroney @Shi4Tech @mvollmer1 @mikeflache @lyakovet @Fabriziobustama @kalydeoo