“The restrictive and inconsistent licensing of so-called ‘open’ AI models is creating significant uncertainty, particularly for commercial adoption,” Nick Vidal, head of community at the Open Source Initiative, a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, told TechCrunch. “While these models are marketed as open, the actual terms impose various legal and practical hurdles that deter businesses from integrating them into their products or services.”
iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time.
Last Friday was my last day at the Federal Trade Commission. While I was there I would frequently share interesting blog posts and articles via an FTC-internal newsletter the Office of Technology sent out and in team-internal Microsoft Teams channels, eventually leading others to start referring to "Simon's depressing article of the day". Surprisingly, this is an activity people have expressed interest in me continuing outside the FTC.
