for a moment... is still there... but it all breaks when you send a prompt :P

the lower down in the stack the more boring you want your vendors to be ai labs are way too loud esp when some are focused entirely on enterprise don't want them to be in the headlines or trying to influence govt policy, that stuff is wild and will implode in your face quickly

Europe has a lot to lose in the current AI race, and it's worth examining how threats to middle-power sovereignty can result in unsafe outcomes. Such scenarios help illustrate why Europe must invest in AI initiatives that can either leapfrog the current frontier or offer critical components like safety and reliability.

The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth. The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt. This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…

A way to see the amazing history of economic growth and declining poverty over the last two centuries.

wow

it's not done if it's not implemented it's not done if the implementation is ugly it's not done if it's not documented it's not done if users can't discover it it's not done if you can't market it

that smile :)

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Yesterday, Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier gave Brussels' official line on Apple withholding Siri AI from EU iPhones. It's a remarkable statement—and nearly every clause of it gets the economics backwards. Let's go through it, clause by clause. 🧵

The cost of computer memory and storage has fallen exponentially.

I would like to claim my 1% of royalty fees.

*Scene 232, some time in 2025* APPLE: Can we release Siri AI? EC: Sure, if you want to get fined under the DMA APPLE: How can we comply with the DMA? EC: Give third-parties access to all the private data on Apple phones so that they can compete with you. APPLE: But we can't do that, it would invade our users' privacy, and it's a violation of our brand promise. EC: Then Siri AI won't be compliant with the DMA. APPLE: How about if we give them access to a "Trusted System Agent", middleware that would allow competing virtual assistants to safely access the same features and capabilities as Siri AI? EC: That's not equal access to everything you have access to, we want you to share everything, for free, that's what we think the DMA demands. APPLE: I'm not sure that's what the text says, are you sure we can't talk about this? We don't even know if that's technically possible. We designed Siri AI to work with our systems, our private cloud, and on-device processing, we don't know how to provide the same access to third-parties from the jump. It's going to take time. EC: That's fine, you can take your time, but if you launch in Europe we'll fine you. APPLE: Can we start with the Trusted System Agent, and then figure out how to give you everything you want, that is technically possible, and in a privacy preserving way, over the next 18 months? EC: Nope. EU law is non-negotiable. APPLE: Really? That sucks, we don't want to Abandon our European users. EC: That's Apple's decision, and Apple's only.

IF STUDENTS DON'T READ IT'S OFTEN OUR FAULT Stop propagating the myth that technology—internet or AI—can bypass the need for knowledge. Stop talking about "The art of prompts", talk about background knowledge Constantly nudge students toward texts reading. Are we doing it?

RT @levelsio: @georgecursor So many things to reply to this But the main thing is that you believe entrepreneurship is a game where everyb…

Nothing to worry about... just move along arstechnica.com/space/2026/0…