MyData, here.
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Meta probed over whether it pushed AI tool onto WhatsApp users without consent
Independent, here.
[But the title is, well, wrong].
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - (as censored by the BBC)
BBC, here.
I have listened to the whole thing, and the Q&A was, I suspect, the part I appreciated most. The "straight out of Silicon Valley" comments about Europe, forever regulating, never producing, felt rather surprising - if the world were that simple (that's why we need good historians with hindsight)! True, we do risk turning ourselves into a dusty, romantic museum, but only if we fail to make intelligent use *also* of our own heritage, including through digital tools that are not simply parachuted in from California but adapted to our needs.
And happily, a young ‘populist left’ has already emerged with exemplary standard-bearers such as Lina Khan among them.
Interim Measures re Meta AI in sight?
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"Meta’s new conduct appears to constitute, already prima facie, a possible violation of Article 102 TFEU, consisting in Meta’s refusal to allow AI chatbot or AI assistant providers—its competitors—to access the WhatsApp platform in order to offer such services to users."
It was such a low hanging fruit that I was puzzled that other Tech bros weren't openly complaining about it - which hinted to the fact that they might have been pursuing other, possibly murkier strategies. When (also?) small (EU?) ones complained, European CAs were listening...
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EC, here . [NotebookLM's own DeepDive here , just for fun] In our Article 19 Report we discussed this and how it could eventually trans... -
ArsTechnica, here .
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T. Davies, here .
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BertHub.eu, here .
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M. Markovitz, here . Final Report, here .
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Bloomberg, here .