It is quite clear that not much can be expected from the initiative of the national protection authority. Unless one wants to raise the temperature of the confrontation to a higher level. With all the implied consequences by Andrea Monti – initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “Has the Data Protection Authority really ‘blocked’ DeepSeek?”
Why DeepSeek scares off (Western) AI giants
So far, the common perception has been that to play the AI game requires such huge investments and infrastructure that any attempt in this direction is discouraged. China has shown that this is not the case. And now it can also advance to the conquer ‘natural intelligences’ by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech
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The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals
The recent decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in the TikTok case confirms the validity of the law mandating the forced sale of the US subsidiary of the Chinese social networking giant, sets an important precedent in the relationship between rights and national security, and provides a fairly precise idea of how state control over foreign companies, not only Chinese, will evolve by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “The TikTok ruling and the future of Chinese high-tech multinationals”
Who will save us from technological profiling?
Equalize, the scandal that is filling the newsfeed of these hours re-proposes all the issues posed by similar events that have happened in Italy and abroad, and in particular, highlights three of them: the ‘loyalty’ of the civil servants entrusted with the power to enter the citizen’s lives, the involvement of private entities in the provision of technological services to critical apparatuses of the State, the need to ‘cut angles’ or to practice ‘plausible deniability’ on the part of institutions, companies and subjects in top positions even in private sectors – by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Strategikon – Italian Tech – La Repubblica
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Webscraping and AI Datasets: if the purpose is in the public interest there is no copyright infringement
“The creation of a dataset … which can form the basis for the training of artificial intelligence systems, can certainly be considered scientific research … Although the creation of the dataset as such may not be immediately associated with an increase in knowledge, it constitutes an essential step for the goal of using it to subsequently acquire the knowledge in question ’ – by Andrea Monti – originally published in Strategikon – Italian Tech-La Repubblica
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