On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the United States public domain. The first movies in which the iconic mouse appeared – Steamboat Willie and the silent version of Plane Crazy – were made in 1928 and works from that year go into the public domain in the US on New Year’s Day 2024.
People: The Inner Ring. AI and mass spying.
Society: European Commission goes against X. Pope and same-sex couple blessing.
Business: Innovation and AI. Disney and the public domain - Mickey goes opensource in 2024.
Tech: Custom transformers chips? USB-C to cure mosquito bites.
AI: Cloud prices in the age of AI. Prediction of HuggingFace CTO for 2024: running (smaller/Local) LLMs on local devices is the 2024 big thing. Agents. Mistral perfs for fine-tuning: better than GPT4.
Security: LLMs and deepfake for phishing. UK exposure to cyber risk.
AI strategies: Navigating AI strategies. AI and jobs losses. How to use it for business impact? C-suit and AI. An interesting read in how they use M365 Chat themselves, where they have developed their own center of excellence (serving inter alia users and leaders needs), Along with a line in governance (and deployment strategy)
Random: Fungal zombie flies.
DIY: Running LLMs on an Apple device, offline.
