Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness:

https://open.mozilla.org/letter/

This letter from Mozilla comes one day after Biden announced US regulations on AI.

It reminds me of a recent Stanford study on the effects of possible EU regulations:

https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/15/eu-ai-act.html

Bigger companies like OpenAI/Microsoft are expected to benefit from the discussed regulations (expect maybe for the data transparency requirements). For open models, it will likely get harder. Also, for smaller EU companies.

#ai #llm

Tutanota (a German email provider) updated their blog post on the state of chat control:

https://tutanota.com/blog/chat-control-criticism

It has some information where the EU countries currently disagree.

#chatcontrol #eu #privacy

The vote on the controversial "chat control" proposal in the Council of the European Union has been pushed back for the second time, now to December.

It is not over, but at least a good sign.

Source (German article): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/rat-der-eu-chatkontrolle-abstimmung-zum-zweiten-mal-vertagt/

#chatcontrol #privacy #eu

I did not realize that the amount of money that Google has to pay Apple to remain the default search engine on Apple devices went up to 18-20 billion dollars (in 2022).

That number keeps going up quickly. Now, it is close to Germany's budget for Federal Ministry of Education and Research (without the states). If it keeps doubling like that, it would reach the defence budget (50 billion) in a few years.

It also highlights the power of default settings.

#apple #google #search

> Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11

https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026

No details are known, but it will also affect libcurl. libcurl is used in many places, so be prepared to apply patches on Wednesday.

#security #curl #libcurl

Meta published a paper about extending the effective context window of models up to 32K tokens (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.16039.pdf).

I'm not an expert on that topic, but as I understood it is extending ideas like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYx2YFzVNc

An interesting aspect of Meta's paper is that they also mention Reddit at same place (around rotations):

> The idea is also concurrently
suggested in the Reddit r/LocalLLaMa community and Rozière et al.

The community is contributing back. 👍

#llm #ai #opensource

Maybe you are interested in contributing to TrackerDB, an open source data set on online tracking?

TrackerDB: https://github.com/ghostery/trackerdb

If you want to help us improve the data quality, but are not sure where to start, you can look for good starting topic here:

https://github.com/ghostery/trackerdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

TrackerDB is published under Creative Common license (free for all non-commercial projects). It is currently used it in WhoTracks.me and in the Ghostery Browser extension.

#opendata #trackerdb #ghostery