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Not Available in Europe: A Tipping Point?
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Move Fast and Regulate Things: Welcome to the Morning After
“The law is rather vague,” concedes Kai Zenner, a parliamentary aide involved in drafting the rules. “Time pressure led to an outcome where many things remain open. [Regulators] couldn’t agree on them and it was easier to compromise. It was a shot in the dark.”
This scattergun approach has resulted in poorly-conceived regulations that will hinder Europe’s attempts to compete with the US in producing the AI companies of the future, warns Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, director-general for DigitalEurope, which represents the continent’s technology sector.
“Extra cost of compliance on EU companies is bringing us further down,” she says. “We will be hiring lawyers while the rest of the world is hiring coders.”
Officials are now frantically trying to plug the holes in the regulation before it comes into force.
Who could possibly have predicted this?
EU Insanity: Regulating Blue Checks
In the battle between the thin-skinned fractional CEO and the superpower of cheese over what constitutes a Twitter blue check, I find myself unequivocally siding with Elon. The EU is the world’s worst feature PM.
Can Elon Build a Data Center?
Overly optimistic thin-skinned fractional CEO Elon Musk decided overly optimistic Oracle wasn’t optimistic enough and opted to build his own AI data center in Memphis.
It looks like he has sign-off from Memphis Light, Gas and Water, but still needs approval from TVA for power. Electricity is usually the long pole for data center builds. Can Elon jump to the front of the line?
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Pollyanna Showdown, Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Oracle?,
Who’s Getting the GPUs? Elon Shell Game Edition, Platformonomics ClownWatch™: Tesla, Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Elon Musk Part II, Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Elon/Twitter, Company Killed By Its Customers, Elon Cashes in All the Trust He’s Banked with Twitter, Do Not Take a Dependency on Elon Musk: Chapter 147, Do Not Take a Dependency on Elon Musk: Chapter 148, Do Not Take a Dependency on Elon Musk: Chapter 149, Oracle Still Can’t Build Data Centers, Why Can’t Oracle Build Data Centers?, Oracle Moves to Nashville
326 Features into a 10k Race
We haven’t checked in on Amazon AWS (AI Wanna-be Service) for a while, but some of their actual customers are getting annoyed that AWS has forsaken cloud to cosplay 24×7 as a generative AI company
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Existential Corner: How Many Steps into the 10K are We?, Team Primitives: What Sayest Thou?, Amazon Desperately Seeks Compression Algorithm for Experience, Most Greatest AI Company in Entire Universe Makes Major Strategy Pivot, SEC Embraces Platformonomics ClownWatch™, Warns Amazon and IBM, The AWS Generative AI Soap Opera, The Amazon AI Inferiority Complex
Antitrust Incoherence: Competitive Harassment Edition
I still maintain antitrust could be a positive force in the world if it were based on some principles as opposed to a thinly veiled pretext for shakedowns, political grandstanding, and competitive games.
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Antitrust Incoherence: Don’t Forget Microsoft, Antitrust Incoherence: Isn’t Market Division Illegal?, Antitrust Incoherence: Roomba Aftermath Edition, Antitrust Incoherence: Apple Edition, Antitrust Incoherence: Spotify Edition, Antitrust Incoherence: Roomba Edition, The Incoherence Doctrine: The FTC Strikes Again, A New Antitrust Doctrine, The DOJ Play at Home Game
IBM is Not a Technology Company: But Ecstatic to be Treated Like One
They must be giddy to see their name in a headline with “antitrust”, just like actual technology companies.
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IBM is Not a Technology Company: McDonald’s Edition, This Week in Securities Fraud, IBM and the Art of Misleading Investors, Last IBM Strategic Imperative Bites the Dust, IBM’s “Cloud” Business (or Lack Thereof), Tweetstorm Digest: Reactions to Barron’s “IBM’s Reboot” Story, IBM’s Lost Decade, Follow the CAPEX: The Clown Car Race Checkered Flag, Introducing Platformonomics ClownWatch™,
