One of the most paradoxical aspects of AI is that while it is hailed as the route to abundance, the most important financial outcomes have been about scarcity. The first and most obvious example has ...

Meta won another fair use case, even though the judge wanted to rule against LLMs; he’ll have a hard time doing so.

The first big AI copyright decision has come down, and it’s a big win for AI. It also provides a blueprint for how Congress ...

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The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed, and ...

This is how I opened January 2023’s AI and the Big Five: The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable ...

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but she has still given her fans the capability of reciprocating their relationship by making the conscious decision to only listen to (Taylor’s Version)s. Still, the value of a streaming choice doesn ...

Yesterday Google ordered its entire North American staff to work from home as part of an effort to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. It is an appropriate move for any ...

This is the only way to match and perhaps surpass the R&D advantages enjoyed by centralized tech companies; open technologies can be worked on collectively, and forked individually, gaining both the ...

In short, encryption is viable for the public at scale precisely because Apple controls everything: clients on both ends, and the server in the middle. It’s the same story with WhatsApp or any of the ...