Censorship is an integral part of any Chinese LLMs, you never see the training data (which exposes the ‘open source’ label itself as propaganda). Deepseek & Co surrender to CCP messaging, there are plenty of reports on that.

And?

I am sure that doesn’t change the fact that China’s AI isn’t the solution. Xi Jinping hasn’t any interest in the well-being of the people. To so-called ‘leaders’ like Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, people are here to be governed and suppressed.

Why is everyone treating like American shit is any better than Chinese

I may be mistaken, but the article says both U.S. and Chinese are ‘shit’ if we want to put it that way. At least this is how I understand the content. “America’s quest for AI dominance is scary. China is not the solution.”

The conclusion is that Europe - supposedly with like-minded democratic allies like Canada, Australia, NZ, Taiwan, Japan, and others - should developed own homegrown tech. This development has already started, although maybe slow, but it’s going on.

What Europeans could not build quickly for themselves, due to a thicket of regulations, they often imported just as quickly from abroad….

Skype was a very successful European company that was acquired by Microsoft (and then shut down to promote MS Teams, a product that is much worse). Mojang Studios, famous for its online game Minecraft, is a Swedish product also acquired by Microsoft. DeepMind was acquired by Alphabet/Google from its UK founders.

The list of European companies that have eventually been acquired by U.S. big tech is very long. What Europe lacks in my humble opinion is a sense of sovereignty, meaning we need to make sure that our stakes are protected and not just sold out abroad. We needs more laws to protect this sovereignty (similar to those in the U.S. and China).

I also agree with other views here like @masterspace@lemmy.ca’s remark that American firms are underregulated, but this is something Europe can hardly influence. But Europe should enhance regulation to make sure that technology developed on the continent isn’t given away.

I strongly disagree with the article in that sense. There is a lot of homegrown EU tech, Mastodon being another example.

Such ‘corruption cases’ have been going on in China for decades, though with a little uptick in recent years. As many analyst and investigation show, however, the fate of these officials may have more likely to do with power struggle than corruption.

The purge “isn’t about corruption, it isn’t about leaking secrets, it is about a general that became too powerful”, [an analyst said in January this year after a high-ranked Chinese general was purged].

Observers say that there is indeed corruption, but it is also often a pretext “to make the party a more effective governing machine and a cudgel to remove political enemies,”

For Xi [Jinping], observers argue, corruption has become a catch-all term that encompasses not just graft, from small-time favours to huge bribes, but much more - ideological impurity, a lack of commitment to China’s ambitions and, crucially, disloyalty.

They say it triggers one of his big fears: an out-of-control party would prove disastrous for China, like it did for another major communist power, the erstwhile Soviet Union, whose fall he has often spoken about. The possibility of any such decline on his watch would threaten his power - and his legacy.

The recent purge of two military generals as cited in the linked article, has shown that,

“Official narratives after the purge of [the two Chinese military generals] Zhang and Liu make clear that their dismissals were political in nature and based on a [perceived or real] lack of loyalty to Xi and his goals” …

Xi’s circle of trusted followers is narrowing ever more to exclude the very people he relied on to consolidate his power, … but he expects this to “continue to play out until there are hardly any leaders left that aren’t complete Xi products”.

This account has already been banned in another instance 9 months ago …

It’s still not enough, though. Ukraine’s allies should do more imo.

Another Klarna moment.

No, they aren’t. But there is a community here that permanently promotes this and similar anti-European sentiment.

You may include https://opentalk.eu/en as a video conferencing tool, for e-commerce there is https://particl.io/, and for AI there is https://minerva-ai.org/en. The first two are German, the latter is Italian.

What is this?

Yeh said, adding that his job was to ​monitor and warn Chinese vessels away using water cannon, loudspeakers, LED boards and radio ​messages …

The sad thing here is imo that there is a need for such a job to be done (rather than this person’s faith). The Chinese Communist Party’s warmongering in the region show what kind of mindset it has.

Yeh said, adding that his job was to ​monitor and warn Chinese vessels away using water cannon, loudspeakers, LED boards and radio ​messages …

The sad thing here is imo that there is a need for such a job to be done (rather than this person’s faith). The Chinese Communist Party’s warmongering in the region show what kind of mindset it has.

@ComradeSharkfucker

the recent European parliament meeting where many chanted “send them back”

Those chanting were the far-right, backed by exactly Russia and China to sow division, spread disinformation, and incited hatred, just FYI.

Cuba just announced it will open up its economy for private investments, this is what this guy who ‘breaks it al down’ forgot to say in this 1 minute rant.

Is there any FDI (foreign direct investment) data for Cuba? Are there any meaningful investments other than from a handful of large commodity firms?

Cuba’s annual exports have been well below 1 billion euros for years.

It’s at an early stage, but the site says:

In practice, this means supporting bounded payment-enabled interaction patterns such as voluntary support, paid access to selected content or services, and other small-value actions where privacy-preserving digital payments can be useful without distorting the nature of the platform.

As far as I understand, you will be able donate to your platform or instance, or an instance may have some ‘paid content’ for which you can use the Feditaler instead of the usual commercial payment services.

I am the least person that supports politicians like Meloni, but I don’t support this media ban. It’s essentially a big step to lose anonymity for everyone.

We must regulate social media, not the children (nor the people). If the content on Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok & Co is harmful - which is what the supporters of the social media ban policies say (and I agree that the content is harmful) - we must regulate these platforms. No one needs an ID to access the web.

Nah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this ⁠year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.

… China’s demand for Mongolian ‌coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.

So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.

Nah, this isn’t about a ‘one-China policy’ but rather about money as coal-rich Mongolia aims to boost China trade ties despite dependence risk

Mongolia hopes to boost trade by more than a tenth this ⁠year with China, the biggest destination for its exports of coal and minerals, setting a target that will further boost economic dependence on its giant neighbor.

… China’s demand for Mongolian ‌coal is also likely to grow, [Xu Tianchen, senior analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit] said, after a mining disaster killed 82 people in northern Shanxi, putting pressure on domestic coal supplies.

So it’s the typical turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: money and political coercion.