Ian Betteridge

1. Lawyers, assemble! Authors v OpenAI part 273. A judge has ordered disclosure of internal communications about dataset deletions. This...

1. Being a Luddite is cool, actually For years, calling someone a “Luddite” was the ultimate insult in Silicon Valley—...

1. This is fine dot gif of the week, part the first Cookie banners are theatre. Consent is supposed to...

This week’s topic is AI. In some ways at the moment, every week's topic is AI, but...

1. Your job is making you anxious. ChatGPT isn't helping If 21st-century capitalism has one central tenet, it&...

Hey, I actually wrote some things this week! The first was about politics, riffing off Amazon's plan to...

We like to imagine that there’s a clean border between technology and nature. Out there are trees, rivers, fungi,...

Every industrial revolution has created winners and losers, but this time the scale of displacement — and the indifference of those...

1. The problem with cloud services is who owns them Ahh, the cloud. Or, as we used to call it,...

Well yes, I am indeed off – but not for long. I'm going on a trip to China for...

1. Vivaldi sets out its stall on AI Vivaldi has taken a bold stance against the growing trend of integrating...

First off, a quick apology — I’ve been under the weather. Most of last week was spent offline, recovering from...

1. Required reading of the week Let’s start with something a little doom-laden: how societies collapse. How “civilisations” meet...

1. Data sovereignty as a global issue You are probably already aware of the EU’s (slow) moves promoting data...

And I’m back! Thanks to a combination of busyness at work and personal time off, I had a bit...