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Geneva, Switzerland
Joined May 2009
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Ukrainian attacks on Russian data centers — some containing Russia’s most powerful supercomputers — threaten aspirations for entirely Russian-built “sovereign AI.” The attacks disrupted Russians’ digital lives, from working remotely to ordering dinner. wapo.st/47Ipryx
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Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom. spr.ly/6019BHUtYc
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In the NYT’s case against OpenAI, the Wikimedia Foundation says training AI should be fair use — but regurgitating articles shouldn’t. theverge.com/policy/1022880/…
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Exclusive: Publishers are starting to serve ads that AI agents can read but human visitors never see. At least 11 publishers have adopted the approach, while Perplexity has moved to block the ads from influencing its AI tools. Full story: thein.fo/4ivA6BH
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (@emroth08 / The Verge) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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The new control will allow publishers to apply their AI training preferences across multiple crawlers. theverge.com/tech/1023763/op…
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The top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are demanding that President Donald Trump preserve his conversations with artificial intelligence chatbots as part of an inquiry into whether Elon Musk’s AI system Grok has influenced official White House policy time-magazine.visitlink.me/d…
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As Americans increasingly turn to chatbots for political information, experts warn that this AI feedback loop could quietly distort the information voters receive, seeding errors about candidates and elections across the internet and into the hands of millions of people. wapo.st/4A2G2sX
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Donald Trump is predicted to emerge from the midterms elections with a far weaker grip on Washington. Accordingly, much of corporate America has been desperately trying to scrub off its spray tan and deflate its lip filler economist.com/business/2026/…
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Costs to protect the debt of numerous US technology heavyweights against default hit fresh record highs Friday after disappointing quarterly reports spurred fresh concerns on whether the massive debt binge financing the AI boom will pay off bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Is a human liable if an AI tool libels someone? An English legal task-force has set out to define what the common law implies for such hypothetical problems economist.com/britain/2026/1…
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Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, asked about AI kill switch proposals: "I don't think it'll work in the long run." A superintelligent AI will be better than us at persuasion. It just convinces the people holding the switch not to pull it. Source: @CNN
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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is set to face a war of attrition with members of Congress from both parties who are determined to hold him responsible for the Iran war and other issues after next week’s midterm elections bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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This is an astoundingly devastating story. Here is a gift link for the whole story. Absolutely horrific. All those dead for Musk to make more money: theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Breaking News: A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing. nyti.ms/3Ukob1t
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The world’s biggest crypto exchange said the ‘current verified total frozen amount is around $3 billion’ as it investigates the latest in a string of security breaches across the digital-asset industry ft.trib.al/jyLp4IM
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Emily Turrettini retweeted
Replying to @karaswisher
@KaraSwisher asked me how Trump will deal with defeat if Democrats win big next week. My expectation: He'll double down on risk. #HighStakes
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Exclusive: Truth Social, the social media platform founded by President Trump, has signed up news and data provider Bloomberg and two Wall Street firms for faster access to the president’s posts, which it sells for up to $100,000 a month reut.rs/3WBl45Q
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