8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#19607708 at 2023-09-25 15:28:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24079: BOOM Week Begins Edition
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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