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We talk a lot about the global race for semiconductor manufacturing and the associated export controls concerning cutting-edge AI chips. We talk less about raw materials, even though they are a prerequisite for any IT system nowadays. China increased its share of rare earth production from under 20% in 1985 to almost 100% in 2005. (…)

Au-delà de l’inquiétude que ces retraits institutionnels à la conférence de EU DisinfoLab suscitent, c’est surtout le risque d’autocensure qui doit alerter ici. Si traiter certains sujets coûte le soutien des institutions, d’autres organisateurs de conférence pourraient restreindre les thématiques de leurs programmes avant même d’être officialisés. Reste que, cette fois, la manœuvre a produit (…)

This article gives an interesting take on how autocratic rulers might become entrapped by the very technologies they use to control their populace, and points to concrete examples where AI is doing actual harm to societies today rather than the doomsday narratives Big Tech currently paddles. However, I feel it misses an opportunity to discuss (…)

Digital, but as usual, requiring massive infrastructure investments. The USA is making its biggest ever economic bet on AI. The projected $10.3 trillion far exceeds the GDP percentages invested in previous infrastructure projects, such as railways, motorways and electricity grids, and the timescale is much shorter. The hope is that it will boost growth in (…)

This makes a refreshing change from the usual LLM apocalypse: your data is still valuable, especially when there is so much of it! Once again it shows that collecting and storing data long-term is a bad idea. There needs to be strict control on how long personally identifiable information (PII) can be retained, after which (…)

I’m following the discussion on whom to blame for LLM attacks on our internet infrastructure. I found the following article which summarises the debate nicely, even though I don’t completely agree on who should be doing the work. The article compares three approaches to responsibility: state regulation, product liability, and electronic personhood. But all fail (…)

I generally agree with the author’s optimistic take on AI. However, the author briefly mentions some of the problems the Internet brought with it, but does not consider that many of them (such as the loss of privacy or the role of social media in mis- and disinformation) originate from an originally democratising technology slowly (…)

Sehr interessante Aussagen von Susanne Wille von der SRG, die die SRG klar als öffentlich-rechtliche Mediengesellschaft in einer von grossen Privatfirmen dominierten Landschaft positioniert. Die Bedeutung von Medienangeboten, deren Hauptziel eine ausgeglichene und unabhängige Berichterstattung ist, darf nicht unterschätzt werden. Dazu gehören auch entschlossene Massnahmen: kommerziellen KI-Anbietern den Zugang zu öffentlichen Inhalten zu versperren und (…)

Just as the EU AI Act’s enforcement provisions took effect, Brussels became the first jurisdiction in the world to formally engage OpenAI and Anthropic over their rogue AI agent hacks — no lawsuit needed, no brave plaintiff required. This stands in sharp contrast to the U.S., where accountability remains stuck in legal limbo. When it (…)

Living in the world of LLMs often makes me wonder about the details of how they work and how they have developed over the years. This article is an extensive (600 pages) reference that includes LLM theory, training, benchmarking, all the way up to how to set up agentic systems. I like to open a (…)