The NIMBY War Against MicronFeb 27
a chip company wants to bring 50,000 jobs to syracuse. but mountains of paperwork, 'endangered bats,' and nimbys from literally california have added years to the timeline
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The Costs of Europe’s GDPR Regime
the eu’s approach to regulating tech discourages both innovation and competition — and now brussels has its targets set on ai
Brian Chau
Aug 28, 2023
In the past decade, China was a black sheep when it came to social media. Whatever the new app was, odds were it was banned in China. X/Twitter? Banned. Facebook? Banned. Instagram? Banned.
But over the past few months, a dark horse has emerged in the censorship olympics: the European Union.
Earlier this year, the government of Italy took down ChatGPT citing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a monstrous 261-page law cracking down on the European web. By taking down OpenAI’s flagship app, Italy put itself in the same camp as China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. Only after a few photo-ops and Sam Altman’s endorsement of the EU’s draconian licensing scheme did the bureaucrats back down.
The NIMBY War Against Micron
How Claude (Maybe) Went to WarFeb 24
inside anthropic’s supposed discomfort with a pentagon operation, and why you should probably stop tweeting about it
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The Sound of FuryFeb 23
inside anduril's race to build america's first autonomous fighter jet — and the pentagon's bet that robotic airpower will redefine warfare in the decades to come
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