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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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NPR @npr.org · 20d

A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.

12 brand new books we can't wait to read this fall

A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 29

I asked Gemini's image editing mode to transform my headshot in Magritte style. I had a bit of Brussels blues today. Nailed it 🤣

Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩

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Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social · Aug 26

Privacy job/AI job: Please take a look -

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Vice President of U.S. Policy

Vice President of U.S. Policy

FPF is seeking a senior tech policy expert with significant expertise in data protection and AI governance to lead its US policy workstreams. FPF is a global non-profit organization that convenes corp...

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Christina Ayiotis @christinaayiotis.bsky.social · Aug 26

"One of the country’s top compliance training companies recorded the conversations of its employees by turning their #Laptops into covert #ListeningDevices while they were at home, in a case that tests the boundaries of workers’ #Privacy." www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Company turned laptops into covert recording devices to monitor WFH

Safetrac says it needed to track work-from-home staff for underperformance, but some employees say the surveillance went too far and police are now investigating.

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Megan Gray @megangray.bsky.social · Aug 25

Brave finds serious security issue in new browser from Perplexity. Let the browser wars begin......er, return!

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Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave

The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 24

Is there a link? Thank you!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 21

There is a wave of #AI bills sweeping Latin America 🌊
We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw

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AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals

The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to impact societies and economies around the world. Policymakers worldwide have begun pushing for normative frameworks to regulate the...

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 20

✅ Empowering line managers, not just central AI labs, to drive adoption, and selecting tools that can integrate deeply and adapt over time. 5/END

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 20

Some of the factors of successful GenAI integration identified by the study:
✅ Purchasing AI tools from specialized vendors and building partnerships succeed about 67% of the time, while internal builds succeed only one-third as often. 4/

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 20

”The data also reveals a misalignment in resource allocation. More than half of gen AI budgets are devoted to sales and marketing tools, yet MIT found the biggest ROI in back-office automation, eliminating business process outsourcing, cutting external agency costs, & streamlining operations” 3/

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 20

Research is based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments 😲

"While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise integration", per Forbes coverage of the report 2/

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 20

👁️‍🗨️ A bit of an eye-opener: Turns out that for 95% of companies studied, generative AI implementation is falling short. This is according to a report from an MIT research project launched this week, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025". 1/

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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 18

- a measure by which I realize I am more American than I thought, since my 2 weeks of vacation felt awkwardly long, be them as awesome as they were 😂

@economist.com #Europe #Charlemagne #SummerVacation

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 18

Charlemagne is on a strike against Europe, after last week's pot stir with Europe's Hogwarts, the EUI in Florence 😂 This week he is taking aim at... the sweet European summer vacation - ... www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?

A continent on holiday from geopolitical reality

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 16

This sounds to me more realistic as a source of Europe’s competitiveness problem rather than the likes of GDPR and digital regulation 🤓
At the very end of the article there’s also a note on unsuccessful capital markets harmonization efforts for the past 10+ years. More realistic indeed.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Aug 16

Some of Europe’s most notable companies are moving to the U.S., deepening the continent’s economic woes.

America’s Stock-Market Dominance Is an Emergency for Europe

Some of Europe’s most notable companies are moving to the U.S., deepening Europe’s economic woes.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 15

An MIT literature professor discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. Joshua Bennett on what this means for the future of AI and why poetry matters in a world ruled by tech:

Why So Many MIT Students Are Writing Poetry

A professor at the Institute discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. What might it mean for the future of AI?

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Aug 15

So maybe data minimization is not an AI killer after all? 🚀 In this recent essay for The New Yorker, computer scientist Cal Newport contends with the fact that, possibly, using more compute and more data does not make an AI model better on an indefinite scale.
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What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?

GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Jul 21

A must-read, from Miranda Bogen - every paragraph translates in my head to: “And this is why data protection is absolutely core to any AI governance efforts” - helentoner.substack.com/p/personaliz...

Credit goes to @staceygray.bsky.social for finding this text & sharing it.

Personalized AI is rerunning the worst part of social media's playbook

The incentives, risks, and complications of AI that knows you

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fantastic

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside

Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Jul 19

✅ Security mitigations, Commitment 6 and Appendix 4, Safety and Security Chapter

➡️ Wouldn't it be nice to have a note referring to Article 32 GDPR and perhaps bridge them? 10/10

Here’s a prosecco for bearing with me til the end of the thread on a Saturday! ☀️ 🏖️ 🥂

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Jul 19

…and, presumably, all GPAI providers operating in Europe and training their models on personal data would need to conduct. How can processes and assessments from that risk analysis framework inform the various Measures of Commitment 3? Crickets. 🦗 9/x

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Jul 19

✅ Systemic risk analysis, Commitment 3 in the Safety and Security Chapter

➡️ There is something called a Data Protection Impact Assessment, which has been around as a legal obligation for 7 years now … 8/x

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Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna @gzf.bsky.social · Jul 19

✅ Systemic risk responsibility allocation, Commitment 8 in the Safety & Security Chapter

➡️ Has anyone working to draft the CoP heard abt Data Protection Officers, who can advise & have knowledge on risks to fundamental rights arising from complex & massive processing of personal data? 7/x

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