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Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Is this dotcom bust 2.0? - on.ft.com/4bBPd8s via @financialtimes.com “Some things change, but human beings, bless them, do not. All the signs of a classic bubble are upon us,” says Jim Grant, a financial journalist and perma-bear who predicted both the dotcom crash and the subprime mortgage mess"

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Is this dotcom bust 2.0?

History shows how difficult it is to spot the exact moment that markets turn

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 05/02/2025

Preserving copyright protections for news publishers against theft by artificial intelligence companies is “a question of right and wrong”, the policy chief at the Financial Times @mattrogerson.bsky.social has told MPs pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...

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FT policy chief warns MPs watered-down copyright regime for AI is 'huge mistake'

Preserving copyright protections for news publishers against theft by AI companies is “a question of right and wrong”, the FT has told MPs.

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Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Google implements OPT-IN for YouTube 3rd party AI training techcrunch.com/2024/12/16/y... "the default setting for all creators will NOT ALLOW 3rd parties to train on their videos, whch makes it more explicit to companies that have already done so that they did this against the creators’ wishes."

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Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Some fun facts I didn't know before I plugged the books3 jsonl into chatgpt: - The scrape has 85+ books in it from over 30 serving @houseoflords.parliament.uk - Lord Dobbs holds the record with 17 books - Lord Roberts is second with 10 books - The dataset also contains 10 books on copyright..

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Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Rana Foroohar in @financialtimes.com on the tech as a nation states thing... www.ft.com/content/648c... After I'd stopped 😪, I thought about relying on a nation state to help run the civil service (i.e. CoPilot). & hope there is a big red button? & interoperability/switching built in from day 1?

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Should tech giants be treated like nation states?

[FREE TO READ] A UK minister said governments should show a ‘sense of humility’ when dealing with Big Tech

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