The Securities and Exchange Commission's possible plan to grant crypto companies relief from regulation to sell "tokenised" stocks risks harming investors, a group of stock exchanges said in a letter to the U.S. regulator this week. From a report: Several crypto companies plan to sell crypto tokens linked to listed equities to retail investors who want to get exposure to stocks without owning them directly. But to sell the products in the U.S., crypto companies which are not registered as broker-dealers would need the SEC to give them a no-action letter or an exemption.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins has said the agency is working on crafting an "innovation exemption" from securities laws which would enable crypto players to experiment with new business models. The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), a group whose members include the U.S. Nasdaq and Germany's Deutsche Boerse, said in a letter dated November 21 that an exemption could create market integrity risks and undermine investor protections. "The SEC should avoid granting exemptions to firms attempting to bypass regulatory principles that have safeguarded markets for decades," WFE CEO Nandini Sukumar told Reuters.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins has said the agency is working on crafting an "innovation exemption" from securities laws which would enable crypto players to experiment with new business models. The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), a group whose members include the U.S. Nasdaq and Germany's Deutsche Boerse, said in a letter dated November 21 that an exemption could create market integrity risks and undermine investor protections. "The SEC should avoid granting exemptions to firms attempting to bypass regulatory principles that have safeguarded markets for decades," WFE CEO Nandini Sukumar told Reuters.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Conversation: The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it's become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the web are being generated by artificial intelligence. [...]
It's important to clarify what's meant by "online content," the phrase used in the Graphite study, which analyzed over 65,000 randomly selected articles of at least 100 words on the web. These can include anything from peer-reviewed research to promotional copy for miracle supplements. A closer reading of the Graphite study shows that the AI-generated articles consist largely of general-interest writing: news updates, how-to guides, lifestyle posts, reviews and product explainers.
The primary economic purpose of this content is to persuade or inform, not to express originality or creativity. Put differently, AI appears to be most useful when the writing in question is low-stakes and formulaic: the weekend-in-Rome listicle, the standard cover letter, the text produced to market a business. A whole industry of writers -- mostly freelance, including many translators -- has relied on precisely this kind of work, producing blog posts, how-to material, search engine optimization text and social media copy. The rapid adoption of large language models has already displaced many of the gigs that once sustained them.
The dramatic loss of this work points toward another issue raised by the Graphite study: the question of authenticity, not only in identifying who or what produced a text, but also in understanding the value that humans attach to creative activity. How can you distinguish a human-written article from a machine-generated one? And does that ability even matter? Over time, that distinction is likely to grow less significant, particularly as more writing emerges from interactions between humans and AI... "If you set aside the more apocalyptic scenarios and assume that AI will continue to advance -- perhaps at a slower pace than in the recent past -- it's quite possible that thoughtful, original, human-generated writing will become even more valuable," writes author Francesco Agnellini, in closing.
"Put another way: The work of writers, journalists and intellectuals will not become superfluous simply because much of the web is no longer written by humans."
It's important to clarify what's meant by "online content," the phrase used in the Graphite study, which analyzed over 65,000 randomly selected articles of at least 100 words on the web. These can include anything from peer-reviewed research to promotional copy for miracle supplements. A closer reading of the Graphite study shows that the AI-generated articles consist largely of general-interest writing: news updates, how-to guides, lifestyle posts, reviews and product explainers.
The primary economic purpose of this content is to persuade or inform, not to express originality or creativity. Put differently, AI appears to be most useful when the writing in question is low-stakes and formulaic: the weekend-in-Rome listicle, the standard cover letter, the text produced to market a business. A whole industry of writers -- mostly freelance, including many translators -- has relied on precisely this kind of work, producing blog posts, how-to material, search engine optimization text and social media copy. The rapid adoption of large language models has already displaced many of the gigs that once sustained them.
The dramatic loss of this work points toward another issue raised by the Graphite study: the question of authenticity, not only in identifying who or what produced a text, but also in understanding the value that humans attach to creative activity. How can you distinguish a human-written article from a machine-generated one? And does that ability even matter? Over time, that distinction is likely to grow less significant, particularly as more writing emerges from interactions between humans and AI... "If you set aside the more apocalyptic scenarios and assume that AI will continue to advance -- perhaps at a slower pace than in the recent past -- it's quite possible that thoughtful, original, human-generated writing will become even more valuable," writes author Francesco Agnellini, in closing.
"Put another way: The work of writers, journalists and intellectuals will not become superfluous simply because much of the web is no longer written by humans."
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according to a letter to Congress sent roughly three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a broad trade truce.
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg informed lawmakers of the conclusion in the Oct. 7 letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News, to the heads of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It wasn't clear whether the companies have been formally included in the the Pentagon's so-called 1260H list, which carries no direct legal repercussions but serves as a major warning to US investors.
Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg informed lawmakers of the conclusion in the Oct. 7 letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News, to the heads of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. It wasn't clear whether the companies have been formally included in the the Pentagon's so-called 1260H list, which carries no direct legal repercussions but serves as a major warning to US investors.
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Even vintage GeenStijl met nieuwerwetse foefjes als AI combineren. Na afloop van de termijn mag een Kamervoorzitter een kunstenaar aanwijzen die een schilderij van hem of haar maakt - het portret komt vervolgens te hangen in de Rooksalon. Nu vraagt Tom Staal al weken aan Martin Bosma of HIJ al een kunstenaar heeft aangewezen (nee) omdat wij het anders wel doen. Derhalve bij dezen de vraag: schilder, teken, tover, Grok, ChatGPT, Paint of Photoshop een mooi schilderij van Martin Bosma en stuur ovv 'Bosma' naar redactie@geenstijl.nl. Maken wij een mooi follow-up topicje en laten we Martin Bosma zelf de winnaar kiezen. Soort Sterren op het Doek, maar dan zonder die vervelende Eus. Mail dan!
Beter kunnen = mailen naar redactie@geenstijl.nl
Hier hangen ze dus
Meekletsen?
Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers...
Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.…
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De drone-incidenten bij vliegbases Volkel en Eindhoven roepen in de Kamer veel vragen op. Maar in een debat woensdag waarschuwde demissionair minister Ruben Brekelmans (Defensie, VVD) dat mogelijk veel onopgehelderd blijft.
Bij Volkel werden vrijdag- en zaterdagavond drones gesignaleerd. Op Eindhoven alleen op zaterdagavond. Op beide bases is zonder succes geprobeerd de drones neer te halen. Dat was nog niet eerder gebeurd. Elders in Europa worden soortgelijke verstoringen al langer gemeld.
Een "zorgelijke ontwikkeling" noemde Daniël van den Berg (JA21) de gebeurtenissen. "Hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren en wat hebben we nu precies gezien het afgelopen weekend", wilde Fatimazhra Belhirch (D66) weten. Waarom wordt de aanschaf van dronebestrijdingsmiddelen nu pas versneld, vroeg Kati Piri (GroenLinks-PvdA).
'Enorme dreiging'
Brekelmans zei dat de onderzoeken nog lopen. Maar hij probeerde de verwachtingen te temperen. Speurwerk in Denemarken, Noorwegen, België en Duitsland naar drone-incidenten heeft "niet een heel duidelijk beeld opgeleverd", zei hij.
De drones vormden niet direct een "enorme dreiging" voor de bases, aldus Brekelmans. Er is geen indicatie dat ze bewapend waren en zelfs met een camera zullen de drones "niet meteen allerlei geheimen waarnemen".
Eerdere sabotageacties
Eerder zijn er wel sabotageacties geweest in Europa die gelinkt werden aan een Russisch netwerk, zoals een aantal branden. Bij al die drone-incidenten is dat niet bevestigd, aldus de minister. Het is "niet eenvoudig" om vast te stellen wie erachter zit, "zeker als je de drone niet in handen hebt".
Defensie is bezig om versneld extra capaciteit aan te schaffen om drones te detecteren en te bestrijden. Deze week kondigde het ministerie nog aan daarvoor tussen de 1,25 en 3 miljard euro uit te trekken.
DOHA (ANP) - Het Formule 1-team van McLaren heeft de gebeurtenissen tijdens de Grote Prijs van Las Vegas achter zich gelaten. Dat stelt teambaas Andrea Stella in een persbericht, in aanloop naar de GP van Qatar.
Stewards van de internationale autosportfederatie FIA diskwalificeerden de coureurs Lando Norris en Oscar Piastri zondag omdat hun auto's bij de technische keuring aan de finish niet aan de voorschriften voldeden. Er was sprake van te veel slijtage aan de bodemplank van de auto. Max Verstappen won de race en is door de diskwalificatie van zijn concurrenten terug in de race om de wereldtitel.
"Wat er in Las Vegas is gebeurd, verandert niets aan onze aanpak van dit weekend", aldus Stella. "De mentaliteit die ons twee constructeurstitels en twee coureurs in de strijd om het kampioenschap heeft opgeleverd, blijft hetzelfde: tot het uiterste gaan en ons potentieel maximaliseren. Pijnlijke momenten horen bij onze sport, maar ze zorgen er ook voor dat je leert en sterker wordt."
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Het Witte Huis in Washington is op slot gegaan door een schietpartij in de buurt. De lockdown werd gemeld door het kantoor van de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump.
Twee leden van de Nationale Garde werden neergeschoten. De dader is gepakt, meldde de politie.
Perhaps inspired by All Streets, Ben Fry’s map of all the streets in the US, Nelson Minar built a US map out of all the rivers in the country.
Minar put all the data and files he used up on Github so you can make your own version.
[This is a vintage post originally from Jun 2013.]
Tags: Ben Fry · maps · Nelson Minar · timeless posts · USA
