Apple abused its dominant position by charging app developers unfair commissions, a London tribunal ruled on Thursday, in a blow which could leave the U.S. tech company on the hook for hundreds of millions of pounds in damages.

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A powerful piece from pluralistic on Apple/Google/Microsoft's capitulation to Trump, the profound, unfolding dangers of continuing to use their software and what we collectively need to do about it.

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Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 Turing Award, and author of The Bitter Lesson. And he thinks LLMs are a dead end. [...] LLMs aren’t capable of learning on-the-job, so no matter how much we scale, we’ll need some new architecture to enable continual learning. And once we have it, we won’t need a special training phase — the agent will just learn on-the-fly, like all humans, and indeed, like all animals. This new paradigm will render our current approach with LLMs obsolete.

Long interview from the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast. I like the more technical/philosophical arguments. And I think it's a more nuanced perspective than what we normally hear about AI.

https://piped.video/watch?v=21EYKqUsPfg

• Alexis Ohanian said that the internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI."
• "I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge that's verifiably human," he said on TBPN.
• Ohanian mentioned the "dead internet theory," which Sam Altman has also recently referenced.

California is cracking down on AI technology deemed too harmful for kids, attacking two increasingly notorious child safety fronts: companion bots and deepfake pornography.

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the first-ever US law regulating companion bots after several teen suicides sparked lawsuits.

Moving forward, California will require any companion bot platforms—including ChatGPT, Grok, Character.AI, and the like—to create and make public "protocols to identify and address users’ suicidal ideation or expressions of self-harm."

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The Australian Financial Review reports that Deloitte Australia will offer the Australian government a partial refund for a report that was littered with AI-hallucinated quotes and references to nonexistent research.

Deloitte's "Targeted Compliance Framework Assurance Review" was finalized in July and published by Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) in August (Internet Archive version of the original). The report, which cost Australian taxpayers nearly $440,000 AUD (about $290,000 USD), focuses on the technical framework the government uses to automate penalties under the country's welfare system.

Shortly after the report was published, though, Sydney University Deputy Director of Health Law Chris Rudge noticed citations to multiple papers and publications that did not exist. That included multiple references to nonexistent reports by Lisa Burton Crawford, a real professor at the University of Sydney law school.

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Seen on: https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/26/Linux_is_Replacing_Apple.shtml

A new investigation, “Big Tech’s Invisible Hand”, exposes the tactics of these corporations in over 20 articles published between 9 and 24 September by a global consortium of 17 media outlets across 13 countries.

The project reveals the worldwide efforts to rewrite or block legislation intended to protect user data, children, and journalism itself.