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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 1h

"These guys would merge Coke and Pepsi..." great Doha Mekki

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 3h

Google: leveraging the dominance in search to AI - sure, that's the plan: if nobody prevents them from doing it...

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 4h

Equally concerning is the mental health of those who paid $ 200 to listen to him, if I may

Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 4h

Has Peter Thiel lost his mind?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

More technological approach - started discussing it 20+ y. ago / next q?

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Why choosing someone not having much clue as the moderator for the fireside chat with LK? What's the plan??

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Trump antitrust 'philosophy' - you ask? 😂

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Germany:

Lowering entry barriers and fostering interoperability to attract new entrants - Good

Ensuring that even in markets with fewer players, competition remains dynamic and effective - Good Luck www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE...

www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Up next: Lina Khan!

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 6h

Antitrust Law and Oligarchy: The Intersection of Markets, Democracy, and Power - when you were already thinking about your weekend fordham.zoom.us/w/8255528537...

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

[I quite like that States are doing their things: today we discussed Cal algo price setting ban - and we loved it]

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Gatekeeper ✅

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Digital infrastructure ✅

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

Brandeis ✅

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 5h

We need a bingo card, at some point ;-)
Robert Bork ✅

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 6h

Antitrust Law and Oligarchy: The Intersection of Markets, Democracy, and Power - when you were already thinking about your weekend fordham.zoom.us/w/8255528537...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

fordham.zoom.us

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 6h

"The debate about merger control is merely a distraction from the fundamental problems we actually need to solve" www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

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Manuel Chakravarty @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org · 8h

Ok, so the most successful American AI startup asks the EU to help it with EU antitrust law against American bigtech while the US administration attacks EU tech laws left, right, and centre. Remind me, what was the problem with EU regulation again?

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 1d

I guess OpenAI doesn't think much of Judge Mehta remedies... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OpenAI Warns EU Antitrust Watchdogs of Big Tech’s Data Dominance

OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

www.bloomberg.com

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 8h

The essence of the VSA framework 👇🏽

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 8h

I swear: I predicted it in a post (just need to find it back) 👇🏽

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 8h

"“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money...An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.”" Kant-level, I guess listeners were in awe - did he also mention how difficult it has become to hire a reliable cook nowadays?

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9h

Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 9h

This needs to STOP. The EU cannot afford this type of interference any more!!!

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 9h

💵 While claiming to defend startups, Allied for Startups has received generous funding from Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.

🔎 In a leaked lobby strategy document from 2020, Google mentions Allied for Startups as a key ally to echo its messages on the DSA and the DMA.

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 9h

I was reminded of this while listening to youtu.be/5zrSQm5jpDM?... - it's not only upstream that we should start worrying because these guys are already figuring their ideal equilibria (something the EC economist on the panel was also referring to, I think...

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 10h

You know, those boats...

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 15h

As we have seen in the last 20+ years, when US antitrust is frozen battles among US companies are fought on European ground. Hopefully, EU citizens and taxpayers get a fair share too...

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 1d

I guess OpenAI doesn't think much of Judge Mehta remedies... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

OpenAI Warns EU Antitrust Watchdogs of Big Tech’s Data Dominance

OpenAI has raised concerns with European Union antitrust enforcers over potentially harmful conduct by the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc.

www.bloomberg.com

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 15h

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

www.nature.com