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Tech Transforms podcast: A reporter’s take on AI, data privacy, ChatGPT, and TikTok

Dynatrace

Krishan also shares the darker side of the application, including the lack of established fact-checking and the use of personal information scraped from the internet without individuals’ consent. The conversation also touches on the federal government’s reservations around security and its cautiously optimistic approach to ChatGPT.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure. Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS China (Ningxia) Region

All Things Distributed

Both Regions are helping to transform businesses, increase innovation, and enhance the regional economy. As this breadth of customers shows, we believe that AWS can and will serve China's innovation agenda. With AWS, Chinese customers can leverage world-class technologies both within China and around the world.

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Map Camp 2021?—?links to my maps from the Green Economy session with Carlota Perez and Andra Sonea

Adrian Cockcroft

However telecommunications has largely become a “dumb pipe” connecting smartphones to the Internet with ever higher bandwidth, to support the emergence of video based applications. which is going to enable new innovations as the deployment of 5G and broadband at home spreads around the world, and brings the developing nations into the mix.

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