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Michael Veale

@michae.lv
8 posts
2025-10-16
it's because you want paying customers to try and fill the financial chasm (especially those that don't need mega huge expensive context windows) not because you have a commitment to free expression [embedded post]
2025-10-16 View on X
CNBC

Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world”, after receiving backlash for saying that ChatGPT will offer “erotica for verified adults”

plus 3 other reasons I've switched to Claude for productivity Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Sam Altman says OpenAI shouldn't act as global moral authority Jensen Huang / Mon...

2025-09-30
put this in the eu and openai qualifies as a virtual assistant under the dma [embedded post]
2025-09-30 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants

the chatbot will start letting its 700,000,000 users shop directly from their chats Jibin Joseph / PCMag : ChatGPT Now Lets You Make Purchases Without Leaving the App Nishit Singh ...

2025-08-05
Gonna be great for subject access requests as people find themselves with all kinds of putative summaries of off handed remarks made about them while they're in the waiting room.  [embedded post]
2025-08-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants

New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn't want the whole room to hear Bluesky: @michae.lv and @hypervisible Bluesky: Michael Vea...

2025-08-02
looks like we're heading to superintelligence through RAGs then, thankfully the web is still working well [embedded post]
2025-08-02 View on X
The Information

Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023

The Information :

2025-01-03
Nick Clegg's departure from Meta almost like a changing of the guards from a European lobbying focus to a US one. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
2025-01-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta required a public statesman like Nick Clegg after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but now turns to the in-house Republican Joel Kaplan to appease Trump

The former UK politician was a public statesman when Meta required one.  A different approach will be called for under Trump.

Nick Clegg's departure from Meta almost like a changing of the guards from a European lobbying focus to a US one. www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
2025-01-03 View on X
Semafor

Meta appoints Joel Kaplan as Chief Global Affairs Officer, replacing Nick Clegg, who is leaving the company; Kaplan is Meta's most prominent Republican

www.semafor.com/article/01/0...  [embedded post] Sam Jeffers / @worklesshard : Seems a bit backward for Clegg to leave now.  Nothing will happen in the US for years, while EU DSA e...

2024-12-30
on AI and ransomware - CNBC has commentary that it's a bit overblown because it's the simplest social engineering that is often the most successful. i agree! but the q is how simple AI helps social engineering scale, not how complex AI attacks outthink & outwit ppl. www.cnbc.com/2024/12/30/r...
2024-12-30 View on X
CNBC

How cloud computing, AI, and geopolitics could shape the evolution of ransomware, which could cost victims $265B annually by 2031, as the AIDS Trojan turns 35

Ransomware is now a billion-dollar industry.  But it wasn't always that large — nor was it a prevalent cybersecurity risk like it is today. Bluesky: @michae.lv . LinkedIn: Ryan Bro...

2024-11-20
Useful reminder in this long read on Meta and LLaMA that its ‘open source’ play is about creating a platform, reflecting its insecurity around gatekeepers Chrome, Safari, Play & App Store.  Android, after all, is ostensibly open.
2024-11-20 View on X
Fortune

How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google

Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.