Wednesday, July 12, 2023

At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg:
At a classified briefing on July 11 with senators, US national security officials defended their deployment of AI; Chuck Schumer has arranged three AI briefings  —  Senior US national security officials are scheduled to defend their use and development of artificial intelligence on Tuesday …



India's IT minister says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to "internalissues" and "doesn't affect" the chip program; Foxconn plans to seek new partners (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
India's IT minister says the Foxconn-Vedanta venture ended due to “internalissues” and “doesn't affect” the chip program; Foxconn plans to seek new partners  —  Minister says both companies will still pursue chip projects in India  —  India's minister for technology …



Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft's favor; some question the judge's standard on harming competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
Experts: the FTC faces hurdles to appeal the Activision ruling as the facts work in Microsoft's favor; some question the judge's standard on harming competition  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission would face hurdles in any appeal of a court's order on Tuesday that said Microsoft (MSFT.O) …



A look at Wikipedia in Russia after the Ukraine invasion, where the service remains popular, and Kremlin-compliant upstart Ruwiki, led by a long-service editor (Noam Cohen/Bloomberg)

Noam Cohen / Bloomberg:
A look at Wikipedia in Russia after the Ukraine invasion, where the service remains popular, and Kremlin-compliant upstart Ruwiki, led by a long-service editor  —  When a group of armed mercenaries seized a Russian regional capital and began marching toward Moscow in late June, verified information was hard to come by.



The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...