A bill strengthening the UK Competition and Markets Authority to regulate tech giants like Apple and Google heads toward approval before the UK's July election
https://techcrunch.com/... Wouldn't have happened if not for the continuing efforts of @owa and in-kind contributions from Apple's legal team. Nothing pulls people together like a megacorp acting li...
The EU opens formal DMA probes into Apple and Google over letting developers “steer” users from their app stores, and Meta over its “pay or consent” model
Apple fans: “The EU must approve of Apple's plans, otherwise Apple wouldn't have announced them” — The EU: “Hang on a minute...” https://www.theverge.com/... Jan Penfrat / @ilumium@eupolicy.social :...
Google updates Bard with 43 more languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese, and privacy features requested by EU regulators, and debuts the tool in Europe and Brazil
It's now available in the EU and Brazil after adding privacy features such as user opt outs and more notices on how information is used. — It can now speak answers in addition to text results — You ...
The open-source AI boom is precariously built on top of Big Tech's giant models like LLaMA and GPT-3, and could fold if Meta and OpenAI decide to close up shop
but the next generation of AI breakthroughs will be entirely back in the hands of the biggest, richest AI labs in the world” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Matt Rogerson / @mattrogerson : This ...