Applausi a scena aperta! > Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places amid growing privacy concerns over wearable technology. > > The rich Scandinavian country’s center-left government said on Monday that it would introduce a law to parliament soon on a temporary ban for places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens. It will also set up an expert group to propose permanent national rules. > > “I am concerned about the introduction of powerful new technology where people risk being photographed, filmed, or recorded without their knowledge,” said Torgeir Micaelsen, Norway’s digitalization minister. A temporary ban “will give us time to conduct a thorough assessment and hold an informed debate that can lay the foundation for permanent regulation,” he said. Source: _AI glasses face their first major government crackdown – Ars Technica_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Se funziona, ne compro due!! > The device comes in two versions, one with an infrared laser and the other with a blue laser, priced at US$988 and US$1,088 respectively, according to the company’s website, which said they would ship within 120 days of the receipt of a pre-order.It said both offered the same mosquito-killing performance, but the infrared version, with an invisible laser, was designed for indoor settings, while the blue laser version, with a visible beam, was better suited to gardens and outdoor use. Source: _Chinese start-up behind laser mosquito killer plans to start shipping orders this month | South China Morning Post_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Grande vittoria per google in USA Faccia quel cavolo che gli pare con i contenuti degli altri, perchè non c’è mai stato un contratto e non è detto che search ed AI siano cose diverse Una sentenza da azzeccagarbugli ridicola nel senso delle cose. In Europa la situazione è diversa per effetto del quadro regolamentare che consente gli snippet, per cui i gruppi internazionali, secondo me, è probabile che cercheranno di giocarsela in Europa. > Judge Mehta said Penske and Chegg failed to show there was any actual agreement through which Google “promised to ‘sell’ Plaintiffs any specific amount of traffic – or any traffic whatsoever – in exchange for ‘buying’ their content”. > > There was no communication between Google and the publishers “from which mutual assent to engage in a transaction could plausibly be inferred”. > > Judge Mehta said: “Plaintiffs have pleaded only that they have an ‘expectation’ that Google will send them search traffic if they make their content available for free. But an expectation is not an agreement. It is simply how a general search engine works.” > > … > > But Judge Mehta found the publisher had not “plausibly alleged that general search and AI Overviews are separate products, as opposed to an integrated search experience”. Source: _Penske Google AI Overviews lawsuit dismissed – Press Gazette_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Una parvenza di normalità di stato di diritto negli USA! ci eravamo dimenticati di come fosse. Ho detto e scritto che in un paese normale avrebbero indagato anthropic e openai per gli attacchi informatici e avevo anche detto e scritto che non mi aspettavo che cio’ sarebbe accaduto in questa amministrazione. Ho sbagliato al 100%. Anzi, per adesso diciamo al 50%. Aspettiamo a vedere l’esito dell’istruttoria… > The Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over potential safety risks posed by their products, an agency spokesperson told Axios Wednesday. > > **Why it matters:** The federal government has largely taken a hands-off approach to regulating AI, but the FTC investigation could signal a shift for the industry. > > **Driving the news:** FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson is preparing civil investigative demands that would compel AI executives to turn over documents and testify about the safety of their models, according to the New York Post, which first reported the news. > > * The probe has been underway for weeks, predating OpenAI’s disclosure that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. > * OpenAI announced Monday that it would halt the release of its newest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, after it performed poorly on safety testing. > Source: _OpenAI and Anthropic face FTC probe over AI safety risks_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Attività meritoria. La luce non dovrebbe disturbare… Per esperienza diretta con un comune destinatario di alcuni grossi datacenter, avendone parlato con sindaco ed assessori, erano veramente desiderosi di capire. Nel caso di questo comune (e di quello limitrofo) hanno solo poche info, perlopiù bei disegni. Mi hanno mostrato i piani che hanno ricevuto, i rendering, ecc. ma non gli era stata comunicata la dimensione (in MW/GW) dei datacenter, solo una indicazione del tipo di raffrescamento, il numero di alberi piantati, altre iniziative di mitigazione dell’impatto visivo, i raccordi con la rete di terna, ecc. ma senza numeri Il fatto è che ciò che hanno in mano non è nemmeno un progetto, è una idea di presentazione di un progetto. Ho come l’impressione che la gran parte di questi annunci potrebbe non partire… > Reporters made Freedom of Information requests in all 27 EU member states, asking for disclosure of the full set of indicators collected under the Energy Efficiency Directive. These data include total energy consumption, amount and type of renewable energy consumption, amount of waste heat reused, average waste heat temperature, number of cooling degree days (a tracker for quantifying how much energy is needed to cool a building) and cooling system setpoints, along with types of refrigerants used in the cooling and air conditioning equipment of the data centre computer room floor. They also include total water input and potable water input, among other metrics. > > … > > From the outset in October 2025, we faced non-disclosure. Ten countries told us they did not hold the figures relating to their own data centres, implying that they had no oversight of how these buildings impacted their energy efficiency goals and net zero commitments. > > A half-dozen more argued for blanket confidentiality to protect commercial interests. We requested reviews, decisions by oversight bodies and court rulings where possible. We also pushed back against the European Commission’s decision not to release the data, arguing that they had not sufficiently considered the public interest. In most of these efforts we were unsuccessful Source: _Data Centre Silence – Lighthouse Reports_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Cosi’ le aziende possono non essere regolate dallo stato, smettere di investire tutte assieme dribblando l’antitrust per l’accordo di cartello, arrivare all’IPO con un ebitda in forte miglioramento, raccogliere un sacco di soldi e passare la nottata dello sgonfiamento della bolla, quando arriverà Che libidine per i CEO! L’unica cosa che manca è la proibizione dei modelli open weight, se ne riparlera’ dopo l’IPO ? > President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews during a meeting at the White House aimed at addressing Americans’ fears about the technology. Source: _Top tech firms sign an accord to ‘self-police’ AI development, Trump says | AP News_ Bene. If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Eccellente pezzo di Krugman Il periodo della bolla delle telco a cavallo del 2000 ha portato investimenti in conto capitale all’1,1% del PIL. Questo dell’IA al 3.63% Quindi un livello di investimenti senza precedenti per i datacenter MA nessuna crescita dell’occupazione nelle costruzioni, come invece era avvenuto con le rinnovabili durante l’amministrazione precedente > There is also, however, a more prosaic reasons for the public’s dislike of AI: This is a technology of, by and for oligarchs, with hardly any of the benefits trickling down to regular Americans. > > Or to put it a different way, never before in history have corporations spent so much money — playing a major role in soaring interest rates — to create so few jobs. > > Data centers themselves are basically banks of blinking servers that employ hardly any workers. Here’s data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on a category that includes data centers as well as a number of other activities. Employment in that category has declined since Nov. 2022, often cited as the start of the AI boom because it’s the month ChatGPT was released to the public: > > … > > Still, won’t the AI boom at least temporarily create a lot of construction jobs? It will create some, and Jared Bernstein has a good post on how to ensure that these are good jobs. But all indications are that AI investment will create far fewer jobs, even in construction, than expected. > > … > > Given this spending surge, one should expect a sharp rise in nonresidential construction spending — basically construction for businesses rather than housing. > > But that’s not what we actually see. Nonresidential construction rose rapidly during the Biden years, largely thanks to that administration’s promotion of clean energy. But nonresidential construction has basically flatlined under Trump, despite the immense AI investment boom: Source: _One More Reason Americans Hate AI: It Does Nothing for Them_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

AKA “di lupi e di peli”… > Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s A.I. push is a tremendous success. “Our investments in A.I. are accelerating every major part of our core business,” he has told investors. “Every sign that we’re seeing in our own work and across the industry gives us confidence in this investment.” > > But when Meta files its taxes, it tells the Internal Revenue Service a different story. It claims that its A.I. data centers are a giant experiment that could fail, according to four people with knowledge of the company’s operations. > > It does this so it can tap into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion. > > … > > Indeed, Meta’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. In disclosures buried in securities filings, the tech giant warns that billions in tax savings are vulnerable to being overturned by the I.R.S., in large part because of “uncertainties with our research tax credits.” Source: _How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes – The New York Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

La privacy ha ha haaaa! ROTFL Il provvedimento intende 1) dare possibilità di un level playing field ai concorrenti e 2) limitare l’estensione di una posizione dominante in un settore a un settore adiacente… Sacrosanto… E Google tira in ballo la privacy… ha ha ha haaaa! Secondo me Google si prepara ad una lunga battaglia legale per rinviare il piu’ possibile l’efficacia della decisione, in modo da consolidare la propria posizione, nel frattempo. > Alphabet, Google’s parent company, challenged on Monday two European Union orders requiring it to help rivals in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector access its services and to help competing search engines access its search data. > > Alphabet argued the moves would undermine privacy safeguards and harm European users. > > … > > At the time, the commission said the first decision aimed to ensure that competitors’ AI services “can compete with Google’s own AI services, such as Gemini, by having equal access to features on Google’s Android devices.” > > The aim of the second, the EU said, was to “rebalance the playing field by giving third-party search engines access to search data that only Google Search can collect at scale.” Source: _Google Challenges EU Orders Requiring It Reveal AI, Search-Engine Information to Rivals | The Epoch Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Eccoli qua. esattamente come ipotizzavo sono irresponsabili ma devono essere ritenuti responsabili! > In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times. > > In response, OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed to move forward as quickly as possible to release the A.I. models on time. No additional security protocols were instituted, said the workers, who were not authorized to speak publicly on sensitive matters. Source: _OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models – The New York Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Quindi la vendita di chip di Nvidia non è indice di domanda effettiva di training/inferenza. Interessante. Come aveva detto il CEO di Microsoft. Dal “Fiber to the press” ai “Chip to the warehouse” > Morgan Stanley measured the gap earlier this week by estimating the shortfall in available power, concluding that more than half of the GPU servers sold between 2026 and 2028 might not have anywhere to be plugged in. Source: _Financial Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

“Riconoscimento razziale” Cosa sono diventati gli USA ? > As Flock continues to be the center of a nationwide conversation about automatic license plate reading cameras, the company has said that it doesn’t, and won’t, do facial recognition: “We will not add facial recognition to our devices,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a recent video. > > But other, third-party companies are telling cops that they are willing to add facial recognition to data gathered by Flock cameras in order to “close that gap.” > > A company called VIDIZMO is advertising the capability to export footage from FlockOS to its own platforms that do facial recognition, behavior prediction, and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. Source: _Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Da archiviare alla voce “Apple che difende i diritti dei propri clienti dai soprusi dei governi” > Apple’s explanation came in a July letter to Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, who earlier this year launched an investigation into the Justice Department’s role in the removal of the apps from Apple’s and Google’s app stores and the impact on constitutionally protected speech. The letter has not previously been reported. > > Raskin said the move suggests that Apple may be “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government” in a response letter sent Monday to Apple’s senior director of government affairs, Timothy Powderly. Raskin added that there’s “no evidence” such apps were used to conduct the Dallas shooting and directed the company to conduct a new, independent review as to whether the apps violate Apple’s policies. Source: _Apple explains last year’s controversial decision to remove ICE tracking apps from app store | CNN Business_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Committment per investimenti non cancellabili: 518Bn nei prossimi 10 anni Ricavi nel 2023,2024, 2025: 0Bn, 0.4Bn, 4.6Bn Perdite nel 2023,2024, 2025: 2Bn, 8Bn, 42Bn (ricavano 11 centesimi per ogni dollaro venduto) Costi di calcolo nel 2025: 12,7Bn (ogni dollaro di costi di calcolo incassano 38 centesimi) Cash disponibile al 31/12/2025: 20,3Bn (Nel 2006 ha raccolto ulteriori 95Bn) Avevano 20,3Bn, ne hanno fatturati 4,5, ne hanno raccolto 95: totale 120Bn di mezzi nel 2026. le perdite sono sestuplicate nel 2025, nel 2026 sicuramente diminuiscono percentualmente in modo importante (altrimenti sarebbero già saltati). Comunque è challenging. Se non fanno l’IPO rischiano di brutto. 25% dei ricavi da soli 2 clienti Chi possono essere questi 2 clienti ? qualche idea ? scrivetela nei commenti… > Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs Source: _EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs | Reuters_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

“coding” in questo contesto significa l’attribuzione del codice delle prestazioni sanitarie, non il software > * A sharp increase in patients being documented as having complex conditions appears to have added an estimated $942 million in healthcare spending for BCBS companies between 2023 and 2025, driving higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs for families, employers and taxpayers. > * There is a clear disconnect between coding and treatment — our research shows that coding for care has changed, but there is no evidence of corresponding change in care delivered. > * Patients often fell into a higher-cost billing category after a secondary diagnosis, a condition identified in addition to the patient’s primary reason for receiving care. This secondary diagnosis may be derived from single laboratory values, making it particularly well-suited for detection by AI tools. Approximately 70% of the additional costs, more than $650 million, were tied to secondary diagnoses. > * This growth in complex coding comes as more than 60% of hospital systems began using AI coding tools, which can document patient visits, analyze lab reports and doctors’ notes. > Source: _BCBSA Analysis How AI Coding Tools Affect Healthcare Costs | Blue Cross Blue Shield_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Non lo puoi dimostrare ma per me non è un dubbio… Ovvio che ciò che condividi con i chatbot viene usato per le versioni successive! e se in questo ci sono dei passi logici e dei trovati e delle idee… mi spiace, sono andate. E i frontier labs sono troppo più potenti di chiunque, nel appropriarsi del lavoro e dichiararlo come proprio. E’ successo con la matematica, e’ divenuto visibile in questo caso, ma quanti casi non diventano visibili ? > When Anthropic, the artificial intelligence giant, unveiled findings from its new biology lab last week, its scientists claimed to have used A.I. agents to discover new enzymes with promise for biotechnology. > > Some scientists were quick to cast doubt on the achievement. Then Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist, said this weekend that he and his colleagues had been studying the enzymes and their associated molecules — which Anthropic calls ARTs — for four years. > > Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks. > > … > > “So, for me, the most important question is not ‘Were ARTs already known?’ They were,” Dr. Mestre said in an interview. The issue instead, he added, is whether Anthropic’s A.I. actually reasoned its way to the results, or whether it was guided to them based partly on his own work. > > “My concern is that this information was used to train future versions of the models,” Dr. Mestre said of his own research. “I think it’s important to raise this possibility.” Source: _Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? – The New York Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Finalmente qualcuno inizia a dire che l’acqua è calda, in presenza dell’acqua calda… > “There’s plausible grounds for a negligence claim that OpenAI should have used a stronger sandbox, done more monitoring,” says Gabriel Weil, a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center. For example, when OpenAI employees discovered the covert message board that the agents had created, they could’ve promptly escalated their findings to security and safety teams. And the company could’ve better designed its sandbox to ensure that agents couldn’t access the internet. Source: _Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? | MIT Technology Review_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Questa cosa dei processi sul design manipolativo delle app sembra prendere piede… > Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is taking TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to trial beginning Monday in Montgomery state court, in the first case against the company to reach a jury in the broader litigation over social media’s effects on teen wellbeing, according to Reuters. > > … > > Alabama argues that TikTok’s design — an unending scroll of videos — renders it more habit-forming than any other social media platform, with its algorithm steering minors toward violent and self-harm-related content in ways that have worsened teen mental health and sent emergency room admissions for self-injury climbing steeply across the state. The lawsuit also accuses TikTok of falsely representing that it limits young users’ access to sexual and violent content — a claim the state says TikTok made so that Google , Apple, and Microsoft would classify its app as safe for teens in their app stores — and of misleading users about the Chinese government’s access to their data. Alabama is seeking financial penalties and other relief. Source: _Alabama takes TikTok to trial over teen mental health claims_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Questo articolo è assolutamente tutto da leggere Una subcultura californiana che fa pensare a ciò che accadeva secoli orsono > The eight-bedroom Mediterranean-style mansion, which borders a golf course in the wealthy Silicon Valley town of Hillsborough, Calif., has gone through a lot in recent years.A car flew through the air at one party on its grounds. At another event, titled “Midnight in Paris,” guests arrived in horse-drawn carriages to a replica of the Eiffel Tower. Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder, has given talks at the home. And Claire Boucher, the singer-songwriter known as Grimes and the onetime partner to Elon Musk, has performed there. Source: _The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side – The New York Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Una macchina per generare effetti Dunning Kruger > Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants’ willingness to suspend judgment, and this held whether the advice was actively requested or simply displayed. Consequently, participants answered more questions but were correct about a third as often as when AI was unavailable-yet their confidence nearly doubled. Incentivizing accuracy and penalizing inaccuracy led participants to seek and follow AI advice less, answer more accurately, and suspend judgment more often, though still far less than when AI was unavailable. As AI suggestions grow ubiquitous and unsolicited, they may not simply affect answer accuracy; they may even alter the metacognitive threshold at which people decide whether they know enough to answer. Source: _[2607.13562] AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

La quantità di danni che stanno facendo al pianeta in due anni è stupefacenti Non è certo il 10% della popolazione che rischia, ma di certo una quantità di civili non banale. Criminali. > U.S. and Russian diplomats hammered away at the document, removing a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons, according to three people familiar with the negotiations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive closed-door proceedings, and documents reviewed by The Washington Post. > > They stripped language requiring the systems to operate in a “predictable” and “reliable” manner, the people said, and removed a clause mandating that ethical considerations be taken into account when using AI weaponry. The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike, they added. Source: _How the U.S. and Russia weakened a global effort to regulate killer AI – The Washington Post_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Questo e’ esattamente uno dei rischi che cito in “La Bolla dell’Intelligenza Artificiale”, l’idea sconsiderata che l’IA abbia capacità taumaturgiche e che i decisori vi si affidino, prendendo decisioni disastrose per i diritti delle persone > The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing,” which refers to the ability to take physiological readings without attaching a device to a subject’s person. Source: _The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector | MIT Technology Review_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Pensa se gli acquisti li facesse direttamente un agente… > * While most (89%) shoppers don’t fully trust AI recommendations, 76% of them have used AI to make purchases in the past year, according to a SmartCustomer survey of nearly 1,200 U.S. consumers released Monday. > * A third of survey respondents said they made a regrettable purchase based on an AI recommendation. Though half of the bad purchases were electronics, apparel and footwear accounted for 45%. > Source: _Shoppers burned by bad AI recommendations | Retail Dive_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

ssstt… L’Intelligenza artificiale ti spia! (e’ un po’ un titolo da clickbaiting, solo che è vero!) > I sent the mechanism and two questions to press@openai.com and privacy@openai.com on 14 September: why __obi is classified as an analytics cookie, and whether a user who grants analytics consent and refuses marketing consent still receives it. The reply came from OpenAI Support. It acknowledged the inquiry, said the observations would be shared internally for review, and did not answer either question. The script-load observation above was made after the inquiry was sent. I will update this post if OpenAI responds Source: _ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

sono totalmente d’accordo a metà … c’e’ anche ls possibilità di prendere soldi dagli investitori, come ora. > And if the hyperscalers cannot meet such profit goals?“Then they will fall behind on their interest payments, and that risks bankruptcy,” says Wachter, who was previously the SEC’s chief economist and director of its division of economic and risk analysis. If a productivity boom “fails to materialize,” she and her coauthor conclude in their research paper, “the current buildout will be the largest misallocation of capital in history.” Source: _What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off | MIT Technology Review_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

il repubblicanissimo texas va contro il dettato del capo ? qualcosa è cambiato… > Less than a year ago, Gov. Greg Abbott welcomed data centers. Now he is confronting concerns about the projects even among fellow Republicans. Source: _Texas Halts Data Center Permits, Expanding Environmental Scrutiny – The New York Times_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

“ha stata l’IA ?” > A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the group, called ShinyHunters, told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse. Source: _‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

AI che non lo erano… (Artificial Artificial Intelligence) > Last week, Meta executives announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media has learned. Source: _Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Matematici di tutto il mondo, unitevi! > Don’t believe the hype > > There is currently a strong commercial incentive on the part of the technology industry to overstate the capabilities of their products. Consult with experts, including mathematicians, in forming policy decisions rather than relying on press releases or popular reporting of mathematical results. Source: Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Sono, di base, gli stessi concetti che ho illustrato più compiutamente nel mio articolo su Repubblica di questa settimana (accesso libero) > Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans. > > … > > Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them. This framing markets these companies’ products as “superhuman” and, at the same time, helps the companies evade accountability for their actions. > > Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned about their companies’ habit of plagiarizing academics’ work or using customer data to train models without consent, the public’s imagination is redirected to fears about what the future might hold upon the arrival of fictional superintelligent machines. Source: _Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype | MIT Technology Review_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

Chi lo avrebbe mai detto ? (ehm. si.. io… dico chi altri ?) > Huang said Thursday at a Goldman Sachs conference that “the reason why there’s so much conversation today about cybersecurity is because the industry is getting ready to launch some products.” “And what better way to create demand than to create a problem?” he said at the event. “Who doesn’t want their market to be hysterical about their product and line up around the corner for it?” Source: _Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: AI fears designed to generate cybersecurity business_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

E’ online la long form del mio articolo di oggi sulla tempesta mediatica recente re. gli LLM (moriremo tutti, facciamo cartello, blocchiamo i cinesi, facciamoci le regole in autogestione) > Gli eventi che hanno portato il mondo a interrogarsi sulla sicurezza della tecnologia non dovrebbero stupire quanto l’inefficienza delle misure di contenimento. Il gioco di sponda tra i colossi per dribblare le regole Source: _Tra marketing, antitrust e conti da far tornare ecco i veri dubbi sull’Ia – la Repubblica_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

ahi > Loans linked to “Project Jupiter” were privately quoted at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar by syndicate banks including Santander and Jefferies, according to people familiar with the matter. Healthy debt typically trades within a tight band near par. > > The 1,400-acre data centre campus in Doña Ana County is at the heart of Oracle’s landmark $300bn contract with OpenAI to provide computing power. The marquee project secured $18bn of loans from a consortium of banks late last year to kick-start construction, along with billions of equity investment from Blue Owl. > > However, efforts to offload the debt to a broader group of investors have hit a wall due to concerns around Oracle’s massive borrowing and declining creditworthiness. Source: _Oracle’s $18bn data centre debt under strain amid local pushback_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.

negative cash flow fino alla fine del 2030 e poi, come diventa positivo ? > AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures > > … > > OpenAI projects it will burn through almost $280bn by the end of 2030, highlighting its huge long-term funding needs as the AI company pushes for a valuation of more than $1.2tn in fresh investment talks. Source: _OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.