Either, the frontrunners (here in #ArtificialIntelligence) are looking to consolidate their advantage & erect barriers to market entry for nascent competitors... or:
they have looked into the future and are genuinely worried by what they see... or:
both.
In any case, this does not make you any more relaxed about the destructive potential of #AI
🚨 SEC asks for emergency order to freeze Binance US assets anywhere in the world
➥ CNBC
"The Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency motion in Washington, D.C. federal court Tuesday evening, asking a judge to freeze the assets of Binance's U.S. platform and repatriate both fiat currency and crypto held by the service's customers."
"The order also compels Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao, to "show cause why a preliminary injunction" against Zhao and his two holding companies "should not be entered." The restraining order would also prevent all three entities from destroying evidence."
Anyone who understands Bill C-18, can you enlighten me on how this will affect a platform like #Mastodon? Will instances and their operators need to pay to have the right to share news links? I'm a little confused on how this will work here.
Now that the #Tories have demonstrated that their declarations on making work better protected in the #gigeconomy, have proved to be just that: empty declarations, it will come as little surprise to you that in the #grocery delivery sector, couriers/delivery riders are being forced back onto piece rate, insecure contracts.
Its almost like any improvements in conditions were a response to the threat of enhanced #regulation; once the 'threat' was removed, so were the improvements in conditions!