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Comment · 8 days ago
They have a business deal with Microsoft, they have no business deals with Anthropic or OpenAI. Employees were using their private subscriptions for work related tasks. I guess a strongly worded letter to the employees was not enough.
Comment · 26 days ago
It is considered personal data by the likes of the EU, the issue however a pesky little thing called the Swedish Constitution, specifically chapter 2 of the "Freedom of the Press Act" which basically states, in very simple terms:

1. Everyone(1) shall be entitled to have free access to official documents.

2. Official documents are all(2) documents held and produced by the authorities.

(1)=Everyone includes everyone in the world, you do not have to live in Sweden or be a citizen and you do not have to identify yourself.

(2)=Some restrictions apply (natsec, medical, etc).

In short, most government databases are databases of "official documents", including the citizenship registry maintained by the tax authorities.

Downside: All the mundane information about you is public property; address, birthdate, tax records, school grades, drivers license, passport photograph, martial status, court cases and pretty much everything else you can't think of.

Upside: Applies to all politicians as well.

Comment · 1 month ago
That's because it's borderline impossible to produce SOTA chips in Europe (due to costs), and all non-SOTA fabs here already have what they need, and are reluctant to invest more (also due to costs).
Comment · 1 month ago
It's crazy how far behind Google has fallen in this space in just a single year
Comment · 1 month ago
Unless it can do CAD via computer-use how can you say it rivals GPT-Astra?
Comment · 1 month ago
A mathematician that doesn't let themselves be inspired by, or learn from, other peoples work, are they really mathematicians?
Comment · 1 month ago
They have all the logs, URLs accessed and inter-agent communication. What they are saying is that no agents accessed their work during the effort, but that they have no idea if any of their chats have somehow made it into the training data the model was produced with.

It's entirely possible OIA scrapers have picked up their work somehow, and then it was anonymized using some outsourcing effort.

Comment · 1 month ago
Well, no one arrived in this direction, because no one was sitting and prompting a model. It was 10000 agents working 24/7 for several days, trying millions of different directions.
Comment · 1 month ago
instead of pumping it underground, is it not possible to split the carbon from the oxygen, and bind the carbon as a useful solid form?
Comment · 2 months ago
Github pricing is aimed at US companies. Small EU companies that can only afford to pay their 5-6 developers 60K euro per year rather selfhost than pay GitHub.
Comment · 2 months ago
Can't beat them... litigate?
Comment · 2 months ago
I've only found B2B oriented companies in the EU.

Edit: https://aisler.net/en/partners/librepcb

https://www.eurocircuits.com

https://beta-layout.com

LibrePCB from Aisler seems to be most like jlcpcb.

You do pay a lot more though due to industrial regulations. Only lead free solder is allowed in the EU, and chemical regulations and waste disposal laws will drive up the price a lot compared to similar services in China and the USA.

Comment · 3 months ago
> EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

I can answer that. A higher regulatory overhead that means less money for R&D and decreased profit margins for companies here in the EU. That's what's going to happen.

Comment · 3 months ago
Yes of course, but you need to do it via the package manager. You can't "sudo make install". If you build your own software and want to install it system wide, you need to flatpack/brew it or run it in a docker container.

(obviously you can modify the filesystem if you really really really want to).

Bazzite is gaming oriented version of Fedora CoreOs. There are many different versions. I am running bluefin.

I've tried a lot of desktop linux distros, and to be honest, immutable linux feels like the future. Anything you do can simply be rolled back. Break something? Just roll it back.

And if you run something like Bazzite, but want to try out Bluefin-Dx which is developer oriented, then you can rebase your existing installation. If you don't like it, just revert back to Bazzite with a single command.

However, it's desktop oriented. Don't run CoreOs on a server.

Comment · 3 months ago
xAI is under criminal investigation in the EU

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