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  • 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.

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

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  • You’re underselling what companies can do. An LLM can’t verify reality the way people imagine, but it can detect patterns that correlate with crisis well enough to escalate, refuse harmful advice, or encourage real help. Seatbelts don’t prevent every crash either: they still reduce harm.

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

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  • Personal responsibility does not disappear, but neither does product responsibility. If a company builds a system meant to converse with millions, it should not predictably reinforce obvious crises. We expect guardrails in cars without abolishing driver responsibility. The same principle can apply here.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • The problem is that most companies aren’t really automating: as long as they continue to pay staff and invest in AI without changing their processes, they’ll simply be overtaken by others.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • Hehe… Good question. I don’t see a dip on the horizon at the moment. But ASML, Nvidia, Google, Amazon and the like are still a long way from reaching their full potential. However, I find the Chinese AI providers even more exciting in the long term.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • Calling every correction the »end of the AI bubble« has become a tradition. The internet, smartphones and cloud computing all had brutal selloffs before transforming the economy. If AI delivers the productivity gains many expect, today’s pullback may look like noise rather than the beginning of the end.

  • Germany: CDU's Jens Spahn resigns amid surrogacy controversy

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  • The surrogacy story is a distraction. Spahn’s real credibility problem is the mask deal scandal: billions spent, dubious contracts, missing transparency, and taxpayers left carrying the risk. Resigning over the side issue while dodging accountability for the main one would be peak political theatre.

  • EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses

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  • If even the EU starts slowing climate measures, it risks sending the message that every target is negotiable. Businesses need predictable rules, not repeated delays. The longer emissions cuts are postponed, the steeper and more expensive they’ll ultimately become.

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

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  • If the allegations hold up, this is not just a tragedy, it is a product safety failure. AI should be able to recognize a mental health crisis and avoid reinforcing delusions. Engagement metrics are meaningless if the system cannot reliably tell the difference between roleplay and someone in real danger!

  • SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month

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  • The irony is that Musk himself has already cashed out enormous wealth over the years: Whether the stock jumps or drops today barely changes his position. The people really feeling the pain are the retail investors who treated him like an infallible genius instead of managing their own risk.

  • US data center protests go national as backlash grows

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  • Amazing! The one thing capable of uniting Americans right now is a warehouse full of GPUs. Turns out people love AI until the power bill, water use and mystery zoning meeting show up. Maybe transparency should scale as fast as compute for once, because trust clearly is not keeping pace.

  • It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

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  • The DMA isn’t about punishing successful companies: it’s about preventing gatekeepers from deciding who gets to compete. If Android users can choose their browser, they should be able to choose their AI assistant too. Competition should happen on product quality, not on who owns the operating system!

  • Fears over foreign influence in France, as Musk backs Le Pen presidential bid

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  • The issue isn’t whether wealthy people try to influence politics: many do. The distinction is what they’re promoting. Equating support for mainstream democratic parties with support for parties or movements accused of undermining democratic institutions erases an important difference. 'Rich people spend money on politics' is the similarity. The political goals and consequences are where the comparison breaks down.

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • So we’re reaching the stage where sounding consistent is treated as stronger evidence than being wrong? If every structured comment is dismissed as AI, discussion gets replaced by authorship detective work. Refute the points instead of running a literary CAPTCHA on every reply. Thanks!

    BTW: Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • If the leak is authentic, it doesn’t just expose scraped data: it exposes trust. AI companies keep asking courts to accept »fair use« while telling the public as little as possible about their training data. Transparency shouldn’t arrive through a hack. It should have been there from the start. We really need open source AI beyond open weight models.

  • Fears over foreign influence in France, as Musk backs Le Pen presidential bid

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  • That's comparing apples and oranges: Musk supports the far right (even extremists) that's fighting democracy, Soros supports democrats.

  • A digital spectacle society trapped in an endless loop. Thoughts about Bluesky and ATproto.

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  • The irony is that people fled centralised platforms for more control, then discovered that radical openness can create a different kind of lock in. Just because data is portable doesn’t mean privacy is. Protocols optimised for developers don’t automatically produce products ordinary people actually want.

  • China’s Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, the largest open source model ever, rivaling top U.S. systems

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  • Open models crossing the 3T barrier this quickly is wild. 🤯 The interesting part isn’t the parameter count though: it’s whether developers can actually run, fine tune, and build useful products around it. If the benchmarks hold up in the real world, proprietary labs just got another serious competitor.

  • Fears over foreign influence in France, as Musk backs Le Pen presidential bid

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  • The richest man on Earth buying influence in other countries while calling it free speech was always going to end badly. If any other billionaire tried steering US elections from abroad, the outrage would be deafening. Funny how principles become optional when your favorite oligarch is involved.