David Meyer

Oct 9, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer

Everyone has a breaking point, and I reached mine nine days ago when Elon Musk endorsed the German far right. “Is the German public aware of this?” he asked while retweeting a call for Germans to vote for the increasingly extremist Alternative for Germany (AfD), and suggesting it is scandalous that the country pays for the rescue of migrants who would otherwise drown in the Mediterranean. “Yes. And it’s called saving lives,” the German government responded. “So you’re actually proud of it.

Sep 28, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer

One of the most consequential decisions facing U.S. lawmakers this year is whether or not to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although the Carter-era FISA is as old as I am, 2008’s Section 702 is a product of the War on Terror and is perhaps best known as the legal basis for the privacy-busting shenanigans exposed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden a decade ago.

Sep 27, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer

The Writers Guild of America has won its monthslong dispute with the studios. While the most immediate effect of the strike’s end will be the return of late-night TV—and hooray for that—the new deal may ultimately be most remembered as a precedent-setter in the much wider, emerging confrontation between labor and management over the use of AI.

Sep 25, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer

The AI scene is shifting so quickly. Earlier this year, up-and-coming Anthropic partnered with Google, taking a $300 million investment for a reported 10% stake and making the Big Tech firm its “preferred cloud provider, giving [Anthropic] the compute power necessary to build reliable and trustworthy AI systems.”But that was, what, nine months ago? Ancient news.

Sep 21, 2023 | finance.yahoo.com | David Meyer

Here comes another major lawsuit over generative AI and copyright, with OpenAI as the target. This class action comes courtesy of the Authors Guild, with a starry list of names among the plaintiffs: George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham…these are the big guns. As with previous suits in this vein, the core issue is Big AI allegedly training its systems on pirated, copyrighted material.