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Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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"These guys would merge Coke and Pepsi..." great Doha Mekki

Google: leveraging the dominance in search to AI - sure, that's the plan: if nobody prevents them from doing it...

Equally concerning is the mental health of those who paid $ 200 to listen to him, if I may

More technological approach - started discussing it 20+ y. ago / next q?

Why choosing someone not having much clue as the moderator for the fireside chat with LK? What's the plan??

Trump antitrust 'philosophy' - you ask? 😂

Germany:

Lowering entry barriers and fostering interoperability to attract new entrants - Good

Ensuring that even in markets with fewer players, competition remains dynamic and effective - Good Luck www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE...

Up next: Lina Khan!

[I quite like that States are doing their things: today we discussed Cal algo price setting ban - and we loved it]

Gatekeeper ✅

Digital infrastructure ✅

Brandeis ✅

We need a bingo card, at some point ;-)
Robert Bork ✅

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Antitrust Law and Oligarchy: The Intersection of Markets, Democracy, and Power - when you were already thinking about your weekend fordham.zoom.us/w/8255528537...

"The debate about merger control is merely a distraction from the fundamental problems we actually need to solve" www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Ok, so the most successful American AI startup asks the EU to help it with EU antitrust law against American bigtech while the US administration attacks EU tech laws left, right, and centre. Remind me, what was the problem with EU regulation again?

The essence of the VSA framework 👇🏽

I swear: I predicted it in a post (just need to find it back) 👇🏽

"“​​It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money...An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.”" Kant-level, I guess listeners were in awe - did he also mention how difficult it has become to hire a reliable cook nowadays?

This needs to STOP. The EU cannot afford this type of interference any more!!!

I was reminded of this while listening to youtu.be/5zrSQm5jpDM?... - it's not only upstream that we should start worrying because these guys are already figuring their ideal equilibria (something the EC economist on the panel was also referring to, I think...

You know, those boats...

As we have seen in the last 20+ years, when US antitrust is frozen battles among US companies are fought on European ground. Hopefully, EU citizens and taxpayers get a fair share too...

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Catching up youtu.be/TuMw3s27Jd8?....
I read recently that Spinelli (yes, the Ventotene guy) was much concerned about the IBM case...When was the Silicon Valley spell cast on us?

Yesterday in class we discussed how long it could take before NotebookLM gets enshittified 😇

Google Wants Right to Bundle Gemini AI App With Maps, YouTube Alphabet Inc.’s Google wants to retain the right to bundle its popular mapping and video apps with its Gemini AI service, a lawyer for the company told a federal judge Wednesday, pushing back on a Jus...

Google wants right to bundle Gemini App with Maps, YouTube - surprised? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

What are we talking about when we talk about AI? youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...

OpenAI Warns EU Antitrust Watchdogs of Big Tech’s Data Dominance OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

I guess OpenAI doesn't think much of Judge Mehta remedies... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...