The geopolitical role of information technology and the unavoidable dependence on US technology make the option of 15% tariffs on Big Tech, in reaction to Trump’s aggressiveness towards the EU and Italy, simply impracticable by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Those on Big Tech are the only duties the EU (and Italy) cannot afford”
After Huawei and TikTok, is DeepSeek the new threat to US national security?
The availability of DeepSeek, the Chinese Large Language Model, on the market under an open source intellectual property regime – that is, without proprietary claims in terms of copyright and patents – has shaken up the AI sector and challenged some of the dogmas that have become prevalent in the sector. by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net
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What is the geopolitical significance of Huawei Harmony OS Next
The new operating system that Huawei recently announced represents a significant shift in the balance of global technological geopolitics. The analysis by Andrea Monti – Adjunct Professor of Digital Law, University of Chieti-Pescara – Initially published in Italian by Formiche.net Continue reading “What is the geopolitical significance of Huawei Harmony OS Next”
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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Why did Apple drop the lawsuit against the Israeli company behind the Pegasus spyware?
Cupertino’s reasons, experts‘ doubts and an issue that once again puts users’ rights at the centre in the confrontation between Big Tech and Sovereign States by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Strategikon – Italian Tech La Repubblica