We're going to look back at this moment with utter bemusement. A bunch of companies raising billions to buy the same Nvidia chips and build LLMs that most people can't tell apart

Apple's Wi-Fi positioning system exposes the location of thousands of Starlinks in Ukraine cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/wi…

Google AI citing the Onion etc is funny but it’s clearly not the only problem. It has tried to link to an authoritative source here (Oxford University Press) but catastrophically misinterpreted the page

Good news for fans of cookie pop-ups - looking unlikely that data protection bill is going to make it through Lords before election

Pretty good visual explanation of how generative AI works x.com/tim_cook/statu…

Exc: Alphabet's drone division Wing is set to start flying in the UK this summer, delivering blood samples between NHS hospitals telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Billions of VC dollars invested in productivity apps when the only one that works is a 24-page Google Doc that has been going for eight years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Me filing the last story of the week

Great story

Reading AI reports from the CMA like

Apple manager quoted in US government’s lawsuit: “Imagine buying a [expletive] Android for 25 bux at a garage sale and it works fine…”

AI copyright development: France fines Google €250m in part for training Bard on news publishers' content without their consent autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/en/press-relea…

This would suggest Apple and Google are pretty confident that US courts aren't about to break up their $18bn/year search arrangement

Genuinely starting to wonder if Apple's strategy for dealing with the EU is just to change its rules every few days

Rivian R3X or 1983 Opel Corsa?

'And here's where I keep the books about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter'