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Europe Director @openmarkets.bsky.social. Former UK Parliamentary adviser and tech policy consultant. Pro-tech, anti-monopoly.
No. Sorry, not interested. Grem? Gabbo? This isn't real. I won't acknowledge it further.
A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 (Amanda Hess/New York Times)
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Trump is reportedly creating a loyalty scorecard that rates how hard corporations work to support his agenda.
His regime is apparently planning to consult the ratings when considering corporate requests.
This is how things work in a dictatorship.
If Putin is such a 5 dimensional strategic chess master then why is he entering year four of what was supposed to be a one week war to conquer Ukraine?
"Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away."
A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony. zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
“The conclusion is that we’re all going to be using AI all the time for everything. That’s an incomprehensible world, but one you need to believe in order to not see how this all ends up losing money.”
Private capital joins Big Tech in seeking to capture rewards from historic expansion of data centres
It's been obvious for a while that the Trump administration doesn't care about monopoly power – the illegal firings of FTC Commissioners and soft-pedalling on mergers have made that clear. The shelving of the Biden administration's EO on competition is just the final nail in the coffin.
Donald Trump revoked an executive order signed by former President Biden that targeted consolidation in the agriculture, technology, and drug sectors, which the former administration argued had fed inflation by reducing competition
President Donald Trump revoked an executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that targeted consolidation in the agriculture, technology, and drug sectors, which the former administration argued had fed inflation by reducing competition.
American fascism. You're living through it right now.
Gavin Newsom is holding a press conference today on redistricting and DHS agents have arrived masked up and in full gear. Many are armed with guns.
There have been a lot of crazy things that have leaked from inside Meta but this is one of the worst.
A Reuters investigation revealed a “GenAI: Content Risk Standards" document that listed examples of permissible chats including intimate romantic...
“In the aftermath of GPT-5’s launch, it has become more difficult to take bombastic predictions about A.I. at face value…”
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
Apple: allowing alternative app stores on iOS is a massive threat to user privacy and security.
Also Apple: check out this awesome app which lets you share sensitive information about people you are dating while also leaking your personal information.
Fantastic work by @zackwhittaker.com revealing how shockingly bad the security was (is?) for TeaOnHer THE NUMBER 2 APP ON THE IOS APP STORE
Exclusive: A dating gossip app for men exposed thousands of users' personal data, including scans of driver's licenses. The app's developer, Xavier Lampkin, won't say if he plans to notify affected us...
