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[MTN Projects @MTNProjects]

2022 was a very good year for us.

While the world continues to face hard problems, I believe collaboration and sharing is the best way to solve them.

Wishing you and yours a very happy and joyous holiday season!

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

New role: Knowledge Fellow at @DiplomacyEdu Digital Watch, covering IP, jurisdiction and the Internet of Things.

Three unsettled questions about AI, and I'll be spending the next year on all of them🧵

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

German court rules AI music firm Suno broke copyright rules.

https://t.co/aS5RwlDpdA

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

Food for thought!

https://t.co/txAGXoXK1F

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests https://t.co/m0ASEjEgvv

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security https://t.co/3XOxMHbbRx

[The Verge @verge]

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety https://t.co/c6kI6X7HgZ

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

Open weights" is not "open source."
You got the binary, not the source. You can run it. You can't rebuild it.
No training data, no training code, no recipe — just a very large .exe with a friendly license.

https://t.co/UAboT5KeJK

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

Wow🍿

[Financial Times @FT]

The US should stay open to open-weight AI https://t.co/xEJvhEtnfF | opinion

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets https://t.co/ycizkCf1lf

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control https://t.co/BIldEhHXV3

[Digital EU 🇪🇺 @DigitalEU]

Big step for AI in Europe.

The AI Omnibus is now in force, bringing:

✅ simpler rules for companies
🚀 more support for startups & innovation
🛡️ stronger online protections for children
🚫 a ban on nudification apps
⚖️ detection & correction of bias

🔗https://t.co/1PyzumjDnQ

[Jose Manuel Pérez Marzabal @jmperezmarzabal]

Today marks more than the publication of the AI Omnibus. It signals a shift in the EU's regulatory philosophy: from legislating AI to making AI regulation implementable. Simplification is not deregulation.

https://t.co/jhNAsWqGEa

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown https://t.co/c9p2xz5I3I

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Firms such as Anthropic and OpenAI are having to sprint to stay just a few steps ahead of AI labs that give their models away for free. We explain why adoption of open-weight systems is spreading rapidly https://t.co/1oog0euefL

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The incident at Hugging Face sounds like something out of a sci-fi film—but this is not the first sign that AI models’ capabilities are starting to exceed people’s control https://t.co/huyegl4QZU

[The Verge @verge]

Google hit with $1 billion fine for breaking EU antitrust rules https://t.co/blUh9Z4P8Y

[Digital EU 🇪🇺 @DigitalEU]

Google fined €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act.

Google has been found non-compliant for:
🔸self-preferencing its own services on Google Search
🔸preventing businesses to promote alternative, cheaper purchase channels on Google Play

https://t.co/ng6hViT881

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: European regulators hit Google with a $1 billion fine for illegally undercutting competition through its dominance as a search engine, a move likely to intensify trans-Atlantic trade tensions. https://t.co/7cPEDIf5k5

[EU Court of Justice @EUCourtPress]

ℹ️ Did you know that the #CJEU offers an inclusive traineeship?

Up to two paid traineeships are available for the session starting 1 March 2027, specifically for candidates with a recognised disability. 💡

🔹 5 months
🔹 Higher monthly grant
🔹 Open to graduates in any field