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Aucun doute : il a gagné. Après une semaine de psychodrame orchestré et de faux suspense, Donald Trump a obtenu de sa majorité au Congrès le vote d’une loi, la Big Beautiful Bill (la “belle et grande loi”) qui concasse jusqu’au dernier principe de l’…#lettretech #états-unis #économie #siliconvalley #climat #donaldtrump #elonmusk #amériques
Trump casse la révolution verte, la crise de l’énergie qui vient, Musk aux mains pleines
Courrier International · Trump casse la révolution verte, la crise de l’énergie qui vient, Musk aux mains pleinesAucun doute : il a gagné. Après une semaine de psychodrame orchestré et de faux suspense, Donald Trump a obtenu de sa majorité au Congrès le vote d’une loi, la Big Beautiful Bill (la “belle et grande loi”) qui concasse jusqu’au dernier principe de l’ancien parti républicain en augmentant le déficit budgétaire de plus de 3 000 milliards de dollars et inflige les pires sévices au système de protection sociale américain. Les démocrates, le dernier carré des partisans de Joe Biden, ne doutaient pas que Trump, par son art sidérant de la démagogie et des menaces mafieuses, réussirait à imposer ce mélange de baisses d’impôts énormes pour les plus hauts revenus et de saccage de l’assurance médicale destinée aux plus pauvres, le Medicaid.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"As I say in the book, Andreessen’s manifesto runs almost entirely on vibes, not logic. I think someone may have told him about the futurist manifesto at some point, and he just sort of liked the general vibe, which is why he paraphrases a part of it. Maybe he learned something about Marinetti and forgot it. Maybe he didn’t care.

I really believe that when you get as rich as some of these guys are, you can just do things that seem like thinking and no one is really going to correct you or tell you things you don’t want to hear. For many of these billionaires, the vibes of fascism, authoritarianism, and colonialism are attractive because they’re fundamentally about creating a fantasy of control."

technologyreview.com/2025/06/1

#AI #AGI #SuperIntelligence #Billionaires #SiliconValley #EffectiveAltruism #Rationalism #Long­Termism #Extropianism #Accelerationism #Futurism #Singularitarianism #Transhumanism

MIT Technology Review · Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s futurePar Bryan Gardiner
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"In May, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University released a paper showing that even the best-performing AI agent, Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro, failed to complete real-world office tasks 70 percent of the time. Factoring in partially completed tasks — which included work like responding to colleagues, web browsing, and coding — only brought Gemini's failure rate down to 61.7 percent.

And the vast majority of its competing agents did substantially worse.

OpenAI's GPT-4o, for example, had a failure rate of 91.4 percent, while Meta's Llama-3.1-405b had a failure rate of 92.6 percent. Amazon's Nova-Pro-v1 failed a ludicrous 98.3 percent of its office tasks.

Meanwhile, a recent report by Gartner, a tech consultant firm, predicts that over 40 percent of AI agent projects initiated by businesses will be cancelled by 2027 thanks to out-of-control costs, vague business value, and unpredictable security risks.

"Most agentic AI projects right now are early stage experiments or proof of concepts that are mostly driven by hype and are often misapplied," said Anushree Verma, a senior director analyst at Gartner.

The report notes an epidemic of "agent washing," where existing products are rebranded as AI agents to cash in on the current tech hype. Examples include Apple's "Intelligence" feature on the iPhone 16, which it currently faces a class action lawsuit over, and investment firm Delphia's fake "AI financial analyst," for which it faced a $225,000 fine.

Out of thousands of AI agents said to be deployed in businesses throughout the globe, Gartner estimated that "only about 130" are real."

futurism.com/ai-agents-failing

Futurism · The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the IndustryPar Joe Wilkins
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Aral Balkan

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.

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If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.

The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.

Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.

A digital imperialism, if you will.”

– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016

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#BigTech #SiliconValley #colonialism #technology #feudalism #imperialism #corporatocracy #capitalism j12t.social/@j12t/114798595701

ar.alAral Balkan — The nature of the self in the digital age
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1312909/can-china Can China’s Greater Bay Area Rival Tokyo And California? #China'sGBA #news #SiliconValley #Tokyo #TokyoBay #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 In the global race to foster innovation, regional clusters such as California’s Silicon Valley and Japan’s Tokyo Bay have long dominated. But today, China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA), spanning Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, and seven other cities, has emerged as an ambitious challenger, rapidly evolving unde…

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happyborg

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Yes, though I think they're related in that traits can be innate or acquired.

I think we're all vulnerable to that, some are lucky not to be, or lucky enough to be forced to wake up and see it.

Good to hear *your* voice.

I watched an old episode of #SiliconValley last night where Gilfoil created an AI chatbot of himself to avoid tedious interactions. Very funny, and not at all funny now we've reached this point. Plus, begins with Richard addressing Congress and nailing it.

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#Internet devient-il une #dictature ? #LesIdéesLarges #ARTE

Comment comprendre le ralliement de la #SiliconValley à l' #ExtrêmeDroite ? Pourquoi l'État veut-il mettre la main sur le web ? Internet devient-il une dictature ? Entretien avec le sociologue Félix Tréguer, auteur de "Contre-histoire d'Internet. Du XVe siècle à nos jours".

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ARTEInternet devient-il une dictature ? - Les Idées larges avec Félix Tréguer - Regarder l’émission complète | ARTEComment comprendre le ralliement de la Silicon Valley à l'extrême droite ? Pourquoi l'État veut-il mettre la main sur le web ? Internet devient-il une dictature ? Entretien avec le sociologue Félix Tréguer, auteur de "Contre-histoire d'Internet. Du XVe siècle à nos jours".
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Aral Balkan

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

The more things change…

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HuffPost · IBM's Role in the Holocaust -- What the New Documents RevealNewly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offered top tier research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned.

Meta has made at least 10 staggeringly high offers to OpenAI staffers, sources say. One high ranking researcher was pitched on the role of chief scientist but turned it down, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations. While the pay package includes equity, in the first year the stock vests immediately, sources say.

“That’s about how much it would take for me to go work at Meta,” says one OpenAI staffer who spoke with WIRED on the condition of anonymity as they aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the company. Other employees said that they were weighing the money against the potential impact they could have at Meta in comparison to OpenAI. Several believed their impact would be greater at OpenAI."

wired.com/story/mark-zuckerber

WIRED · Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI TalentPar Zoë Schiffer
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La Griffe

Les milliardaires de la #tech et #Trump : ce qu’ils ont obtenu

6 mois après la réélection de Trump, les grands pontes de la Silicon Valley peuvent déjà se féliciter d’avoir misé sur le candidat républicain. Deuxième volet multinationales.org/fr/enquete

1er volet mastodon.social/@obs_multinati

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Observatoire d multinationales

Dérégulation de l'IA et des cryptomonnaies, nucléaire et énergies fossiles, contrats publics, soutien diplomatique...

6 mois après le retour de #Trump à la Maison Blanche, les barons de la #SiliconValley ont déjà largement de quoi se féliciter de l'avoir soutenu

2e volet de notre enquête ➡️ multinationales.org/fr/enquete
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Observatoire des multinationalesLes milliardaires de la tech et Trump : ce qu’ils ont obtenu Six mois après la réélection de Donald Trump, les grands pontes de la Silicon Valley peuvent déjà se féliciter d'avoir misé sur le candidat républicain. Deuxième volet de notre enquête. Depuis son retour (…)
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Simply put, The Corporate Cover-Up Act (S.B. 690) is a blatant attack on digital privacy, and is written to eviscerate long-standing privacy laws and legal safeguards Californians rely on. If passed, it would:

- Gut California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)—a law that protects us from being secretly recorded or monitored
- Legalize corporate wiretaps, allowing companies to intercept real-time clicks, calls, and communications
- Authorize pen registers and trap-and-trace tools, which track who you talk to, when, and how—without consent
- Let companies use all of this surveillance data for “commercial business purposes”—with zero notice and no legal consequences

This isn’t a small fix. It’s a sweeping rollback of hard-won privacy protections—the kind that helped expose serious abuses by companies like Facebook, Google, and Oracle."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/cali

Electronic Frontier Foundation · California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy NightmareCalifornia lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability.The Corporate...
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Unfortunately, despite the titillating headline, there isn't much new in the Douthat interview. Thiel essentially rolled Douthat by delivering canned lines that he has already used in other interviews.

“If the Antichrist were to come to power, it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time,” he said during an interview last year. He uses the same line with Douthat, who basically squanders the interview by allowing Thiel to rehash esoteric religious ideas he has already discussed with every other podcaster in the universe.

In fact, the Antichrist shtick is one of Thiel’s favorite bits (see below).

Totally normal behavior for a 57-year-old billionaire whose surveillance tech company, Palantir, is completely wrapped up in American law enforcement, intelligence and military operations. Right?

Either Ross Douthat didn’t do his homework, or he set out to lob softballs at Thiel—which may explain why the billionaire granted him the interview. When a journalist allows a subject to deliver their usual speech, they have failed.

In fairness, Douthat gets close to the mark with one question on AI, Palantir and the Antichrist:"

thenerdreich.com/is-peter-thie

The Nerd Reich · Is Peter Thiel the Antichrist? NYT Didn’t Think to AskTech billionaire Peter Thiel keeps talking about the Antichrist. Why didn’t the New York Times ask any real questions about his power or agenda?
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Economist Yanis Varoufakis has warned that the West is drifting towards so-called “technofeudalism”, a system where big tech firms extract digital rents, enclose ecosystems and centralise value. Users become serfs within closed platforms, while companies prioritise shareholders over societal value.

In contrast, I believe China is charting an alternative which I call “technomeritism”. This builds on the principles of permissioned innovation but pushes beyond regulatory control to a broader value system, where technological success is judged not by valuation, but by whether it earns its place in society. It is earned through alignment with public goals, civic legitimacy and national strategy. Success is not concentrated but distributed across communities, the economy and wider ecosystems.

This model matters more than ever as the world faces not just a trust deficit, but a coordination deficit. Technologies like AI, quantum computing and semiconductors can no longer scale in isolation. They require systems that bind together state capacity, industry leadership and a social mandate.

China’s embrace of open source in this context, is an example of technomeritism in action. By making core technologies like large language models publicly accessible, companies such as DeepSeek and Alibaba Group Holding (which owns the South China Morning Post) are lowering barriers, encouraging collaboration and reinforcing the idea that innovation earns legitimacy through shared value, not private control.

As Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei recently put it, an open-source environment will benefit the country’s long-term future."

scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion

South China Morning Post · Opinion | China offers an alternative to Western ‘technofeudalism’China’s answer to the Western model focuses on planning, an open source approach and whether the new technology earns its place in society.
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