I gave a copy of my „The Human Imperative - Power, Freedom and Democracy in the Age of #ArtificialIntelligence“ to @UNTechEnvoy @gioasempre when speaking at his hearing on Global #Governance of #AI this week at the #UN in New York. #TheHumanImperative

I've just drafted a new blogpost "GPU demand is (~1Mx) distorted by efficiency problems which are being solved" Mid-2024, Andrej Karpathy trained GPT-2 for $20. Six months later, Andreessen Horowitz reported LLM costs falling 10x annually. Two months after that, DeepSeek

A lot of AI discourse is magical thinking and ignores the crucial "Phase 2". My bet is that (1) AI can indeed play a role in transforming various industries, societies, and governments (2) These transformations, if they happen, will usually be slow and painful (3) Their nature is

Der Sarg des jüdischen Juristen Robert Badinter (1928-2024), der als Minister unter Mitterrand die Todesstrafe abschaffte, wird am Donnerstag ins Panthéon, das Nationalheiligtum der Republik, überführt.

Empfehlenswerter F.A.Z. Beitrag: Wie gefährlich ist ��Big Tech“? https://t.co/ev0Xd5hL9I

Terrible precedent of spineless #Tech #Meta #Alphabet #Apple #Microsoft leaders for America: They signal, wrongly, that even the most powerful must submit to authoritarian, antidemocratic #Trump. This #opportunism is no good for #democracy. https://t.co/sUnPSK8oIE

“The lesson for AI developers is clear: Respect copyright in how data sets are acquired & follow the example Anthropic itself has now committed to.” Say what now? 🤬 Anthropic’s practices are NOT a model. How about obtaining consent prior to use? That’s the path. ⚖️ @CadeMetz

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Copyright Lawsuit With Book Authors

#GAFAM took ads from media. #Trump kills public media funds:" local journalists number down by 75 percent since 2002, a third of American counties don’t have a single full-time local journalist" #Democracy news https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/pbs-npr-cuts-funding.html

I spoke on #AI #Democracy and the #RuleofLaw, alongside the UN General Assembly last autumn in New York, at the Global Foundation for Democracy, and in May of this year, at the Catholic University "Angelicum" in Rome: https://t.co/NxXHAZFQ5B and

How #US Firms are weakening the #EU #AI #Code of practice: By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, these companies put the entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest. #AIAct

Big Tech Is Finally Losing in Courts in the US: Regulatory Impact from. US Judgements is Higher than EU Law @JuliaAngwin

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it: https://t.co/gCFtdZBLcB 1/

🔴Today the 🇪🇺 Commission found that Apple and Meta in breach of the Digital Markets Act. Apple and Meta were fined €500 million and €200 million respectively. 🗓️The companies are required to comply with the 🇪🇺decisions within 60 days. All info 👇 https://t.co/cOMqqxrMPm

📢📢New paper: AI as Normal Technology. I’ve worked on this w/ @sayashk for the last 2 years. The full version will be our next book! Utopian & dystopian AGI visions are quite similar. A far more important axis of disagreement—will AI be superintelligence or normal technology?

In der Tat hörenswert. Jake Sullivan zur Entscheidungsfindung der USA zu ATACMS.

Right holders in the EU feel increasingly marginalized by the current AI approach, as the general perception is that the new pro-innovation agenda is placing the needs of AI developers before theirs. But they won't sit quietly. My full analysis 👇 https://t.co/9r0OsLaGcu

Germany is the new safe haven

The Commission is asking for feedback on how to 'consolidate' EU data legislation like the Data Governance Act, the Data Act, the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, and the Open Data Directive as part of its upcoming Data Union Strategy. https://t.co/EBJO8U8qOt

Search here what #Meta stole from you to train their #Lama #AI. From me they stole 2 books and one important article:   https://t.co/XWAWGFSkFG #Pirates

Love the clear language of Lina Khan. Let us all find clear words on liars and lawbreakers holding political office.