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  • Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral for AI compute

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  • This is exactly the kind of AI competition users should want: more choice, more deployment options, and less vendor lock in. If European AI companies can scale without being swallowed by US tech giants, that’s good for customers, resilience, and the AI ecosystem as a whole.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • Certainly for China. The US still seems to think it can achieve anything with this nonsense.

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • There really is no better way to obtain data. And it’s not just data that’s fed into the AI, but also strategies, methods and processes: ideally, these are incorporated directly into the software.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • It’s as if the whole world were just one big kindergarten.

  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips

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  • China is following the same playbook it criticises the US for using. Once AI became a strategic technology, »global collaboration« quickly gave way to »national advantage.« The result is a world where everyone talks about innovation while making it harder for innovation to cross borders. 🤨

  • America is building 3,000 data centers. The economics aren't as great as they seem

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  • The AI boom is starting to look a lot like past »economic development« promises: huge tax incentives, massive power consumption, and surprisingly few permanent local jobs. If taxpayers are footing part of the bill, it’s fair to ask whether communities are getting enough in return.

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

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  • Most companies have not yet been using AI efficiently, and often do so simply out of FOMO. What’s more, the fact that open-weight models have caught up with or even overtaken closed AIs is a recent development over the last six months.

  • Researchers Detail How AI Systems Can Enable Authoritarianism

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  • Authoritarian governments don’t need superintelligent AI. They need AI that’s just good enough to monitor more people, automate more decisions, and scale censorship at a fraction of the cost. The real danger isn’t AI becoming all powerful: It’s making authoritarianism dramatically cheaper and more efficient.

  • Which lemmy/piefed frontends are there?

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  • This! It’s fast. It’s reliable. Love it!

  • Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

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  • The feature itself isn’t the biggest issue. Plenty of people would find it genuinely useful. The bigger problem is executives denying it exists until they’re ready to talk about it. If users can’t trust what a company says about face recognition today, why should they trust its privacy promises tomorrow?

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • Exactly. Dominance is earned by building products people genuinely prefer, not by making alternatives harder to reach. Every restriction becomes an incentive for competitors to innovate faster. If the US had focused on winning through better models, stronger companies, and real competition instead of political leverage, it would probably be in an even stronger position today.

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • This! The irony is that every attempt to turn AI into a geopolitical choke point becomes free marketing for open weight models. People tend to trust tools they can actually control. If access can vanish with a policy memo, resilience suddenly matters more than benchmark bragging.

  • The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

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  • If the price of visa free travel is giving a foreign government access to Europeans’ biometric data, then it’s a bad deal: The EU lectures the world about privacy and digital sovereignty, yet too often folds when Washington asks for another exception!

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

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  • Open models are one of the few forces keeping AI from becoming an oligopoly: Without them, a handful of companies would control the technology, prices, and the rules of what users are allowed to do. Competition from open models is already pushing the entire industry to innovate faster and charge less. 💪😎✌️

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • You’re describing different guardrails: Most users don’t want arbitrary censorship, but almost everyone benefits from guardrails that reduce clearly harmful or illegal outputs. The real debate is not whether they exist, it is who decides where the line is drawn.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • I think the bubble will not burst but deflate long before the tech disappears: Plenty of companies will burn cash and investors will get wrecked, but the genuinely useful products will stick around. Guardrails will improve too, because trust eventually becomes a competitive advantage.

  • Europe to remain digitally dependent, warns Forrester

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  • Europe keeps announcing »digital sovereignty« while handing its most valuable data, AI workloads, and cloud infrastructure to American hyperscalers: You don’t achieve independence by subsidizing chip factories while renting your digital future from foreign tech giants! That’s dependence with better PR.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • Calling every safety measure a »nanny state« is a convenient way to avoid the actual question: Parents, family, and community absolutely matter, but companies still have a responsibility to reduce foreseeable harm. We expect that from car makers, drug companies, and social platforms too.