576: The New 800-pound Gorilla

Big Tech vs. Big Brother, how Ashley Madison predicted the rise of AI bots and the messy world of "open source" AI.

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• Brussels accuses Apple of breaking EU ‘gatekeeper’ rules — Tech giant faces penalty of up to 10% of global annual revenue
• Apple hit hard by EU rules: AI suite on pause, App Store violations — The EU is using the full force of its Digital Markets Act
• Apple is first company charged with violating EU’s DMA rules — In addition to violating steering rules, regulators are investigating if Apple is undermining alternative iOS app stores.
• EU charges Microsoft with antitrust violations over Teams — Allegations that software giant gained ‘undue advantage’ by bundling video conferencing app with Office are first such charges against it in over a decade
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• EU says Microsoft in breach of antitrust rules due to Teams and Office bundling - YouTube
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• What does 'open source AI' mean, anyway? | TechCrunch — It’s this challenge that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is trying to address, led by executive director Stefano Maffulli, through conferences, workshops, panels, webinars, reports and more.
• The Model Openness Framework — Promoting Completeness and Openness for Reproducibility, Transparency, and Usability in Artificial Intelligence
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