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ChatGPT is getting sued, and it's only the beginning
ChatGPT is getting sued by a first small batch of artists and writers on the way it was trained by scrapping the internet for content, including very much copyrighted ones. As reported by The Verge, The first to sue is the comedian Sarah Silverman and two horror/pop fiction writers
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Threads *not* launching in Europe is pure gold
Meta (Facebook) has officially launched Threads, its Twitter competitor. And it's a straightforward Twitter clone, which is probably the best thing to do if you want to siphon out angry Twitter users in the shortest period efficiently. The interface seems quite decent and unobtrusive, while simply using your
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🟢 Summer reads for innovators (2023 edition) 📚
The summer seems to be installed, and even if most of us are not kicking off work pressure our feet in the sand, sipping margaritas, I thought it would be nice to update a list of book recommendations. The twist this year, though? I haven't read all of
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The enshittification of LinkedIn
My last social bastion of interesting (and polite) social exchange on an internet platform might be going away. I'm referring to LinkedIn announcing testing new options for 'content creators' and ways to monetize the platform for them. You have to remember that LinkedIn does monetize its
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No more grey cars?
Fiat has just announced they will stop producing grey cars. In a literal way. The move is quite interesting as it can be read in two ways simultaneously: Differentiation is everything. Getting bold and renouncing to product what is probably a good half of the demand from your customer in
🟢 Europe now has a clear role in tech, regulating it (you're welcome)
This week, I wanted to tackle a long-standing discussion we needed to have about how Europe has become a white knight of sorts for the US, "helping" them –and the rest of the world– regulate Big Tech. It's not a perfect story, but still...
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Holding on to your core value and selling consistency
Sometimes you have to decide if you're in a Kodak moment or if you have to hold to your guns. Nikon (facing a possible significant disruption from generative AI) has an interesting and quite smart stance. But if it does pay to know who you are, you still
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The Fediverse, it has electrolytes!
The fediverse is a combination of "federation" and "universe." A very poorly chosen monicker, if you ask me, that will not help make the concept catch up for the general public. The core idea is that up to now, social media have been mostly centralized and
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🟢 How business culture practically impacts strategy
It's no secret we focus as much on culture as strategy when working with customers. The reason is quite simply that if you don't factor in the type of business culture you deal with, you have zero chance to deploy an innovation strategy that will take
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The percolation of AI has started, and Microsoft is at the helm
After our full discussion about the GAFAM and other possible frailties, as they headed in 2023, I predicted a few things. One of them was that Microsoft would be uniquely able to leverage AI quicker and with more acumen than Google, Meta, Amazon, or Apple. Even if everyone is touting
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Are you pink enough? 📺
When discussing innovation, pretty soon, we end up talking about marketing and branding. If you do something new that challenges the market, there's an embedded drive to be remarkable yourself by shaking the usual market codes. In 2003, Seth Godin wrote The Purple Cow and summarised many key