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Vili Lehdonvirta

@vilile
12 posts
2024-08-18
OpenAI closed accounts that used ChatGPT to debug code and generate content associated with Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Israeli info ops. Illustrates why China etc want to create their own generative AI stacks, down to the level of GPUs.
2024-08-18 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction

The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.  —  OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered …

2024-08-17
OpenAI closed accounts that used ChatGPT to debug code and generate content associated with Russian, Chinese, Iranian, and Israeli info ops. Illustrates why China etc want to create their own generative AI stacks, down to the level of GPUs.
2024-08-17 View on X
New York Times

OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction

The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.  —  OpenAI said on Friday that it had discovered …

2023-08-02
Not the first time bribery and corruption take hold of underpaid civil servants in an administration that lacks a moral core. Will Amazon succeed in stamping it out where other autocracies have failed?
2023-08-02 View on X
CNBC

How illicit data brokers on Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Facebook peddle internal Amazon market data and services like attacking rivals' product listings

2023-04-11
The tech prince who vowed to save us from the evils of shadowbanning just shadowbanned his former mouthpiece https://www.techdirt.com/...
2023-04-11 View on X
Techdirt

Matt Taibbi's account, including the Twitter Files, was shadowbanned for a while after a spat with Elon Musk, preventing users from finding his tweets in search

The refrain to remember with Twitter under Elon Musk: it can always get dumber.  —  Quick(ish) recap:

2023-04-06
Both the US FTC and the UK Ofcom are now looking into possible competition violations in cloud computing. There are significant scale economies in cloud so imo it's bound to be dominated by a few big providers. But the question is if they then abuse their dominant positions. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-06 View on X
Bloomberg

In a probe begun in October 2022, Ofcom finds Amazon, Microsoft, and Google may be harming UK cloud market competition and plans to refer the case to the CMA

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg :

2022-10-29
Now that Musk is running Twitter, people are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately federated (decentralized) networks like Mastodon seem unlikely to be the answer. This thread illustrates some of the basic problems: cost, collective action problems, fragmentation. Also... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-29 View on X
CNBC

General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the “direction of the platform under their new ownership”

A General Motors sign is seen during an event on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.  - General Motors will create 4,000 new jobs …

2022-10-28
Now that Musk is running Twitter, people are looking for alternatives. Unfortunately federated (decentralized) networks like Mastodon seem unlikely to be the answer. This thread illustrates some of the basic problems: cost, collective action problems, fragmentation. Also... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-28 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde

Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night  — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …

2022-07-15
Another industry that has “collaborated” a lot with academics is crypto. I suspect the sums involved are orders of magnitude higher than Uber's lobbying funds. https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-15 View on X
New York Times

Regulators should crack down on crypto, after it gained an illusion of respectability through association with high-status institutions and individuals

When the Federal Reserve speaks, it speaks in Fedspeak.  A pithy turn of phrase or a striking metaphor can all too easily turn into a headline … Tweets: @smdiehl , @antoniogm , @ch...

2022-06-12
“In the digital economy, powerful companies have a special responsibility to keep the market fair and open.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Dutch ACM says Apple's latest changes to App Store rules, which let developers of dating apps choose payment methods, meet local and EU competition requirements

It's still unhappy about the carve-out for dating apps in the Netherlands  —  Apple announced on Friday that it once again updated …

2021-05-13
“Blockchain-as-a-service” was always a confused idea. If the point was to build a distributed system with no single point of failure, Microsoft hosting it defeats the purpose. If the point was innovation theatre, that's fine; hype is over, service closes. https://www.zdnet.com/...
2021-05-13 View on X
ZDNet

Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service on September 10, six years after initial launch, and is not supporting any new deployments as of May 10

Six years after its initial launch, Microsoft's Azure Blockhain as a Service is going to be shut down this September.

2021-03-05
It's happening. One main complaint is that Apple's music app is able to undercut Spotify on prices because it doesn't have to pay the 15-30% “Apple tax” that Spotify sends to Cupertino. Platforms may eventually have to choose whether they are marketplaces or service providers. https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-05 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: EU is set to press antitrust charges against Apple over App Store rules for competing music streaming services, following a complaint by Spotify

Brussels set to formally press charges alleging tech company used its dominance to squeeze out App Store rivals

2021-01-25
Finnish competitor to Uber Eats, Foodora and Deliveroo raises the biggest funding round in Finnish startup history. The company has market share in Europe, Japan and Israel, and is trying to become an “everything app” for ordering groceries, retail, etc. https://techcrunch.com/...
2021-01-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Wolt, a Helsinki-based online ordering and delivery company, raises $530M led by Iconiq Growth

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :