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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding (opens the original)
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“Basically, our richest tech titans wanted to help Trump pretend he’s competent and powerful, and stall any real public interest accountability, whether it’s for the environmental impact of data center turbines on marginalized populations, the sloppy failure to secure their own automated hacking software, or their reckless and comical disregard for U.S. consumer privacy.” Or for the largest theft of labor in human history (per their own documents) or for the wholesale destruction of rare books o
satisfaction – Techdirt (opens the original)
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Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in a bid to give Wall Street that sweet, impossible, unlimited, quarterly growth it demands. Streaming TV p
Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did (opens the original)
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Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in a bid to give Wall Street that sweet, impossible, unlimited, quarterly growth it demands. Streaming TV p
cybercab – Techdirt (opens the original)
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It says nothing good about America how easily Elon Musk convinced the press and public he was a supergenius engineer who could cobble together complicated rocket machinery wearing coveralls in his backyard shed. Hindsight continues to illustrate how Elon Musk’s real skill sets are opportunism, taking singular credit for the innovations of real engineers, the manipulation of a very broken media, and taking legal, regulatory, environmental, labor, and consumer protection “shortcuts” wherever possi
robotaxis – Techdirt (opens the original)
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It says nothing good about America how easily Elon Musk convinced the press and public he was a supergenius engineer who could cobble together complicated rocket machinery wearing coveralls in his backyard shed. Hindsight continues to illustrate how Elon Musk’s real skill sets are opportunism, taking singular credit for the innovations of real engineers, the manipulation of a very broken media, and taking legal, regulatory, environmental, labor, and consumer protection “shortcuts” wherever possi
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