After EU approval, what comes next for Wiz and Israeli tech’s biggest windfall | CTech The $32 billion Google acquisition now shifts from regulation to integration, with billions in Israeli tax revenue and questions over the future of an independent cloud security champion.

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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

The 2026 #Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a world retreating towards #insularity
It is no longer 'business as usual' as nationalism prevails & #geopolitics destabilises
Businesses need to shift from merely extracting value to giving back to communities
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Nowhere do I find the social pressure to conform more intense than the TSA screening line. Resistance is a practice and it matters

About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

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Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more.

Plus: Apple’s Lockdown mode keeps the FBI out of a reporter’s phone, Elon Musk’s Starlink cuts off Russian forces, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

Colorful montage of works entering the public domain in 2026, including vintage posters, book covers, comic panels, and film stills. Prominent titles shown include All Quiet on the Western Front, Animal Crackers, As I Lay Dying, The Little Engine That Could, The Secret of the Old Clock, King of Jazz, The Maltese Falcon, The Cat Who Went to Heaven, Morocco, and Murder at the Vicarage. Music titles such as Georgia on My Mind, I Got Rhythm, and Dream a Little Dream of Me appear, along with early cartoon images of characters who would later become Betty Boop and Disney’s Pluto. The collage highlights iconic literature, films, music, and comics transitioning into the public domain.

Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

A noir-style illustrated poster titled “The Case of the Disappearing Copyright.” The Lockette—a cartoon character whose body is an open yellow padlock—cautiously steps out of an open vault marked with a copyright symbol. A strong beam of light shines from outside the frame, casting a large copyright symbol onto the floor. Floating eyes and a magnifying glass with a question mark evoke a detective mystery. Red footprints lead toward the open vault door. Text reads: “Public Domain Day 2026” and “Jan 21st @10am PT: Virtual.” Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!

#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.

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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.

At the heart of a class-action lawsuit from authors alleging that ChatGPT was illegally trained on their works, OpenAI’s decision to delete the datasets could end up being a deciding factor that gives the authors the win.

Amazon is spending more on EU lobbying than ever before.

💸 It is now the second largest corporate spender in the EU with €7 million
🕴️It employs 87 lobbyists in the EU, France, and Germany
🤝Has 3 lobby meetings with EU policy-makers every week

The AI Matrix Artificial intelligence counts as today's great transformational force reshaping our societies and economies. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive p...

AI does not emerge and develop in a vacuum.
Politicians, economists, lobbyists and private individuals have always been involved in considerations regarding the purpose, beneficiaries and development of new technologies - but mostly not for the Global South. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Siemens Energy to hand investors $11.5 billion as power market booms Siemens Energy said on Thursday it plans to return up to 10 billion euros ($11.5 billion) to shareholders by the end of 2028 on the back of booming demand for power infrastructure equipment, lifting its shares to a record high.

Siemens Energy to hand investors $11.5 billion as power market booms

The Sorting Some People Will Think. Everyone Else Will Perform Thinking. The Sort Is Happening Now.

" Some People Will Think. Everyone Else Will Perform Thinking. The Sort Is Happening Now. " The current state of AI in the #workspace / #HR and #education – and what lies ahead, possibly. ft.azmackay.com/p/the-sortin...

YouTube video by Good Work What does Palantir actually do?

The Palantir share was one of the biggest outperformers in 2024 with a gain of around 360%. what does Palantir actually do? www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipD...

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

THE INSIDE STORY:

Call for Contributions: The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press We welcome essays, research, reporting, data projects, and other contributions for this series by Friday, April 25th, at Noon Eastern Time.

For "journalists, researchers, policymakers, journalists, technologists, and thinkers across disciplines" @techpolicypress.bsky.social is accepting contributions to this important topic: The Age of Tech Trillionaires and Challenge to Democracy
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Unregulated advanced therapy medicinal products pose serious risks to health | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Authorities warn about unregulated products in the EU, including dendritic cell cancer therapies

Unregulated advanced therapy medicinal products pose serious risks to health | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/unre...

Philosophy Eats AI AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.

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Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb A Delaware bill would award Elon Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders.

Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb www.levernews.com/musk-has-tri...

Eine Rheinmetall-Tochter hat im Wahlkampf Geld an mehrere Bundestagsabgeordnete überwiesen. Es ging gezielt an Mitglieder des Haushaltsausschusses, die über milliardenschwere Aufträge mitentscheiden. 🧵

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

Time to re-read 1984.

The error of our ways - FinTech Futures: Fintech news Nobody likes being wrong, but we all are sometimes. So. Since it will happen. Inevitably. At some point... to all of us. Be nice.

It’s Thursday #mytribe so #LedaWrites
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”

Huge.

Elon Musk and his band of interns are ransacking the government, and online, big tech is colonizing the web with AI slop.

How do the humans, the users, fight back? Guest host Cory Doctorow helps break down the carnage and even offers some words of hope.

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Once more for the MagicSchool AI crowd and anybody else using narratives of magic to sell AI to school admin, teachers, and students: “We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”