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#24601148 at 2026-05-13 18:14:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #30019: Fauxi Whistleblower Calls Out C_A Cover Up Edition

AI Safety Institute Debuts with Big-Name Backers and a Censorship Agenda

Every major speaker at the Copenhagen summit has a resume built on telling platforms what to take down.

Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute arrived at the Danish Parliament this week and the guest list is stacked with people who think you can't be trusted to speak freely online.

Hillary Clinton, Ursula von der Leyen, former Biden Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes, and the head of an organization that wants to break end-to-end encryption are all gathering at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen to announce what they'd like to do next about AI and children.

The "next" part is where it gets concerning. The Youth AI Safety Institute, launched by Common Sense Media on May 5, says it will "complement efforts by regulators and policymakers to translate frameworks such as the EU AI Act, the Digital Services Act, and the UK Online Safety Act into practical protections for child-safe AI."

Those three censorship laws represent the most aggressive government-directed speech suppression regimes currently operating in the Western world. The Institute isn't questioning them. In fact, it wants to help implement them and push them further.

The summit, titled "Keeping Our Children and Families Safe in the AI Era," is co-hosted by Common Sense Media, Save the Children Denmark, and Margrethe Vestager, who spent years as the European Commission's executive vice president building the regulatory architecture that now lets EU officials order platforms to delete content.

More than 200 policymakers, tech executives, and civil society figures are expected. King Frederik X of Denmark is giving the opening address. The Duchess of Edinburgh will attend. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is on the bill.

And so is Pinterest CEO Bill Ready, whose company helped pay for the Institute's creation.

Who's Funding This?
The Youth AI Safety Institute is bankrolled by a mix of philanthropic donors and deep industry money.

The industry funders are Anthropic, the OpenAI Foundation, and Pinterest. All three make AI products that the Institute will evaluate and rate. The Institute says it "maintains complete editorial independence over published results." But the structural incentive is obvious enough to name. Companies are funding an organization that will publish safety ratings of their competitors, define what "safe" means, and push governments to enforce those definitions through law.

John Giannandrea, a former senior AI executive at both Apple and Google, sits on the Institute's Board of Advisors. So does Murthy, who has publicly advocated for digital ID systems to combat online "misinformation" and worked directly with Big Tech companies to target speech the government classified as false during the Biden administration.

Common Sense Media CEO James P. Steyer framed the project by citing the Institute's own polling. "Eight percent-that is the share of parents across the four countries we surveyed who are confident AI companies are prioritising teen safety," Steyer said.

"For more than two decades, Common Sense Media has built the standards, ratings and research that families trust through every major technological transformation young people have lived through, from streaming to social media. Our Youth AI Safety Institute applies that work to AI: independent standards, real testing and clear accountability for the products young people use. Copenhagen is where that mission begins in Europe."

The polling, conducted across Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland by Common Sense Media, SocialSphere, and YouGov, found that 77% of parents want strong laws governing AI. The press materials use that number to argue for "stronger laws and child-centred AI governance," which in the context of this particular coalition means more age verification, more content restrictions, and more government involvement in deciding what AI systems are allowed to say.

https://reclaimthenet.org/ai-safety-summit-speech-controls

#23296132 at 2025-07-08 19:22:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28395: Wheels of Justice Turn Slow But When They Turn They Are Powerful Edition

>>23296129
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While the company has explored a move to a third-party solution to power the AI in the new Siri, it has simultaneously been working on a new version of Siri based on the models developed by Pang's group. Those models also power Apple Intelligence features that run on Apple devices including email and web article summaries, Genmoji and Priority Notifications.

The major departure, the most significant in Apple's AI ranks since the company started working on Apple Intelligence a few years ago,underscores the heightened competition for talent in the emerging space. Meta has been making offers to the world's top engineers worth many millions of dollars per year - significantly more than what the iPhone maker pays its engineers doing similar work.

Pang's departure could be the start of a string of exits from the AFM group, with several engineers telling colleagues they are planning to leave in the near future to Meta or elsewhere, the people said. Tom Gunter, a top deputy to Pang, left Apple last month, Bloomberg reported at the time.

The foundation models team reports toDaphne Luong, a top deputy to AI senior vice president John Giannandrea. Earlier this year, Giannandrea was sidelined internally and saw Siri, robotics, Core ML and App Intents frameworks and other consumer product-related teams stripped from his command. That came after a poor response to Apple Intelligence and continued delays for new Siri features, including the ability to tap into user data to fulfill commands.

With Pang's departure, the AFM team will now be run byZhifeng Chen. In a change from a structure under Pang where most of the engineers reported to him directly, there will be a new organizational layout that includes multiple managers reporting to Chen, who will then have engineers reporting to them. People close to the team indicate thatChong Wang, Zirui Wang, Chung-Cheng Chiu and Guoli Yincould be possible managers in the new structure.

Apple's overall AI strategy is now run primarily by Craig Federighi, Apple's head of software engineering, and Mike Rockwell, who helped create the Apple Vision Pro headset and now leads engineering for Siri. For his part, Giannandrea is in charge of Apple's AI research arm. In June, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple's own AI only got a small showing, appearing in new features for translating calls and text messages.

The few other AI features, including analysis of on-device screenshots and improved image generation, came courtesy of partners, including OpenAI and Google. The company also rolled out a new version of Xcode that can handle code completion by tapping into Claude and ChatGPT.

https://archive.is/fVNLa#selection-1213.0-2137.6

(Are any of these hires investigated for ties to the CCP, born in China and/or are soldiers for China? Most of the young people, are sent over to US Universities, get our training, manipulate our culture and other subversive plans.But China requires any student or Chinese citizen living in the US, report back and spy for the CCP. It seems fraught with danger to have Chinese agents inventing AI models, that certainly influence people, children with horrendous ideas, and anyone that uses AI! What if the companies don't really understand how they are programming AI? Almost all of the TECH companies have a lot of Chinese and Indians employees.)

#19607708 at 2023-09-25 15:28:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24079: BOOM Week Begins Edition

>>19607699
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Let's compare the two trials. For Microsoft, the judge ruled on behalf of media organizations that the deposition of Bill Gates would be unsealed, a deposition that was not meaningful for the trial, but also critically important to the historical record, and one you can watch online today. He also unsealed over a hundred transcripts of other depositions from industry players, including ones that weren't used in the trial itself. This public record was critical to the reporting, and to public understanding of the industry.

But this Google trial?By far the most important moment was when Judge Mehta denied a third-party motion to broadcast a publicly accessible audio feed of the trialfor fear that information Google wishes wouldn't be disclosed become public. Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public solely because it is "clickbait." To put it differently, the search giant literally argues material should stay sealed merely because if that material is interesting. Imagine if Bill Gates, or say, a routine defendant in any case, could have availed himself of that innovative legal argument!

These arguments should be laughed out of court. And yet, Mehta takes them seriously,which has led to an almost-entirely private trial, deadeningly boring to the public because key documents have been deleted and the important or embarrassing moments are held in secret.

As a result of this monumental decision,the trial is now only available to people who can go to the court in D.C.And yet, even if you can come to the courthouse, it's hard to see the trial because huge portions are fully sealed. There is often no clear indication beforehand of how long the trial will be sealed for. And when court ends a sealed session and re-opens to the public, it often resumes within a couple minutes of opening the door to the courtroom. This means anyone who wants to watch the public portions of the trial just has to wait outside the courtroom to see when it re-opens. Moreover, even though you can watch the trial from the courtroom or a public overflow room, unless you are in the media room, electronic devices are not allowed.

It's an eight week trial, but a chronicle of Friday's court date is as good an example as any. Big Tech on Trial waited all day, with no information, as the lawyers debated something in what is known as a 'closed session.' This is a common occurrence. Most of the trial is happening behind closed doors, including procedural questions that should clearly be public. Indeed, Big Tech on Trial looked at the transcripts for the last week to estimate roughly how much of the trial was held in secret, based on how much they are redacted.
Easily half of the week's courtroom days were sealed. Here's a breakdown of how much of the trial was sealed on each day:

Monday, Sept. 18: roughly half of the trial was sealed
Tuesday, Sept. 19: trial was fully open
Wednesday, Sept. 20 roughly three quarters of the trial was sealed. That morning, Bloomberg reporter Leah Nylen came to the courtroom with a First Amendment attorney hired by Bloomberg. But the attorney never got a chance to speak because the court unexpectedly began in a closed session and the public was asked to leave the courtroom(after Judge Mehta reportedly had a private meeting with the lead attorneys in his chambers).
Thursday, Sept. 21: roughly half of the trial was sealed
Friday, Sept. 22: the entirety of testimony was sealed. Court opened up only for a few minutes to deal with administrative matters at the very end of the day.
And that means we heard little of the most important testimony, perhaps of the entire trial, from a man named John Giannandrea. Giannandrea is a senior executive at Apple who reports directly to Tim Cook and came to Apple from Google in 2018, where he was head of Search. The relationship between Apple and Google is the heart of the trial, and, in the year this man left from Apple to Google, the two firms went from aggressive competitors to gentle collaborators. And yet, the public heard just ten minutes of open-court testimony from Giannandrea. Another Apple executive, Eddie Cue, will testify on Tuesday, so there's a chancewe'll learn more about the relationship between Apple and Google. Stranger things have happened.


https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-to-hide-a-2-trillion-antitrust

#11345650 at 2020-10-29 18:41:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14491: Victory Rally Edition Edition

Apple is quietly building a search rival to Google ahead of the DOJ's landmark antitrust case, according to a report

www.businessinsider.com/apple-now-shows-its-own-search-results-threatening-google-ios14-2020-10

Users who downloaded iOS 14, the latest iPhone operating system, noticed that Apple now shows its own results when users search on their home screen. Clicking on links takes users directly to the website in question, rather than through another search engine.

This isn't Apple's first move into the world of search engines. In April 2018, the company hired John Giannandrea, who was formerly Google's head of search and one of its most powerful people, to work on its AI services.

Google has described losing the Apple deal as a "code red" scenario, the DOJ lawsuit, filed October 20, claimed. The deal brings in around half of Google's US site traffic, the DOJ said - and as much as 20% of Apple's profit.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/apple-is-quietly-building-a-search-rival-to-google-ahead-of-the-dojs-landmark-antitrust-case-according-to-a-report/

#7900418 at 2020-01-24 18:13:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10110: Everything Is Better With Frenz Edition

Apple Is Quietly Expanding Its Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) recently acquired Xnor.ai, a Seattle-based start-up that develops low-power, edge-based artificial intelligence tools. Apple didn't disclose the terms of the deal, but GeekWire claimed that the deal was worth about $200 million.

Apple reportedly paid a similar amount for Turi, another Seattle-based company that specializes in machine learning and AI, in 2016. Apple also recently acquired British AI start-up Spectral Edge for an undisclosed sum.

But those acquisitions are just the tip of Apple's AI iceberg. Apple has acquired over 20 AI companies since 2010, according to CB Insights, surpassing the number of AI acquisitions by Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). Apple also poached Google's AI and Search chief John Giannandrea in 2018.

All these moves indicate that Apple is aggressively expanding its AI ecosystem, even though its applications are less visible than Google and Facebook's implementation of AI for targeted ads, or Amazon's use of AI for sorting product listings. Let's delve into Apple's AI plans and see how they could shape the tech giant's future.

It's all about the iPhone – for now

Over the past decade, Apple's AI acquisitions mainly focused on improving the iPhone with new features. It acquired Siri, the core virtual assistant of iOS, in 2010. Its acquisitions of computer vision companies like RealFace – along with its development of first-party chips – led to the launch of FaceID and other face-tracking features in 2017.

Apple's purchase of Xnor.ai complements those investments. Xnor.ai's Edge AI engine previously enabled the Wyze camera – which competes against the pricier Amazon Ring and Google Nest Cam – to recognize people, pets, and objects. But unlike Ring and Nest Cam, which process images remotely on the cloud, the Wyze camera processes them locally inside the camera for better privacy and security.

https://www.ibtimes.com/apple-quietly-expanding-its-artificial-intelligence-ecosystem-2908660

#6830294 at 2019-06-24 14:01:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8735: Monday Forecast Shilly Start with Justice Incoming Edition

""The real safety question, if you want to call it that, is that if we give these systems biased data, they will be biased," said John Giannandrea.
This is something Google has struggled with in the past. There was one particular incident where an algorithm in Google Photos was mistakenly classifying black people as "gorillas". As a result, everyone from IBM to Airbnb is trying to ensure that the algorithms they are creating are not incorporating similar biases."

https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/bias-in-ai-google-head-of-ethical-machine-learning-a3986256.html