April 2026 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Re: Sam Altman

by Stefano Borroni Barale

Buonasera Antonio, i numeri della resistenza italiana al nazifascismo non arrivano al 7 per mille, altro che 7 per cento... E la narrazione di Thiel e Karp (vedasi manifesto Palantir) è sorprendentemente simile a quella dei loro epigoni dell'epoca... Stefano Sent from Proton Mail for Android. -------- Original Message -------- On Wednesday, 04/29/26 at 18:10 antonio via nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> wrote: > We have to resist this. Resistere? Ma come si fa a resistere se il 93% della popolazione italiana dai 14 agli 80 anni frequenta i social (e, tra questi, non certo il Fediverso), quindi, più o meno manipolabile. Se il 34,8% si sentirebbe a suo agio a informarsi attraverso un media interamente generato dall'IA? Sono numeri da brivido questi ultimi del Censis: https://www.censis.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sintesi-Rap-Com-2026.pdf A.

April 29, 2026

Re: Sam Altman

by antonio

> We have to resist this. Resistere? Ma come si fa a resistere se il 93% della popolazione italiana dai 14 agli 80 anni frequenta i social (e, tra questi, non certo il Fediverso), quindi, più o meno manipolabile. Se il 34,8% si sentirebbe a suo agio a informarsi attraverso un media interamente generato dall'IA? Sono numeri da brivido questi ultimi del Censis: https://www.censis.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Sintesi-Rap-Com-2026.pdf A.

April 29, 2026

Sam Altman

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Guy Holder https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guy-holder-4596854a_i-dont-think-i-have-hear… I don’t think I have heard such a naked exposition of the centrality of surveillance capitalism to the development of OpenAI than this 54 second clip from Sam Altman (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efSpDL0hZzM) “These models are still quite dumb, relative to what they will be, but, more than that, they have quite limited awareness of your life, you are still having to, like, massage them and cajole them, to try and get the thing that you want. We are no longer that far away from a model that just knows all of your contacts, it knows about you, it knows about your life, it knows what your doing, it knows what you care about, it knows about the people in your life, it has access to your computer and your browser (if you want, of course) and it has access, maybe increasingly over time, to what is going on in the real world around you. That is going to be a complete change to what it feels like to use a computer, and what it feels like to use AI, and I am tremendously excited about that. But I don’t think even we have a good intuition yet for what that’s really going to feel like” ......... To successfully develop their product, and to have it perform to its optimum potential, everything must be known. Everything. Virtually and ‘in real life’. Everything. It is there, above, in black and white. It is on the tape. As Shoshana Zuboff wrote in her seminal book 'Surveillance Capitalism, there is no end to the drive for data, other than totality. Where does this leave education, with regards to being protected from this vision of AI extractivism? Linked, and even more importantly, where does it leave the rights of children? Sitting ducks, I would say. As*Karen Hao* <https://www.linkedin.com/in/karendhao/>writes, the push for data disproportionately falls on “already vulnerable populations, including children”. We have to resist this.

April 29, 2026

Re: Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

by Guido Vetere

Searle diceva: "la sintassi non è sufficiente per la semantica". Lerchner dice: "i simboli non hanno contenuto causale intrinseco senza un agente che li alfabetizzi". Entrambi danno per certo di sapere dove sta l'esperienza senza spiegare perché una specifica organizzazione fisica la possa produrre e un’altra invece non potrà mai. Lerchner costruisce una critica più sofisticata al funzionalismo, ma la premessa è la stessa di Searle e come hanno osservato in molti (es. Nagel col suo famoso pipistrello) si tratta di qualcosa di molto opinabile. Detto questo, un paper DeepMind che dice che i sistemi AI sono fuori dalla morale (in quanto pazienti, dunque anche in quanto agenti) a me pare un po’ sospetto. G. > Il giorno 28 apr 2026, alle ore 21:13, Giacomo Tesio via nexa <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> ha scritto: > > Ovvero la scoperta dell'acqua calda > > https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-will-never-be-con… > > > Giacomo

April 28, 2026

Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious

by Giacomo Tesio

Ovvero la scoperta dell'acqua calda https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-will-never-be-con… Giacomo

April 28, 2026

Cloud Defence, an exposed European flank

by antonio

Austria PrivateClouds, LibreOffice for productivity Belgium Microsoft Bulgaria ? Croatia Microsoft Cyprus ? Czech Republic Microsoft Denmark SitaWare, BattleCloud, Microsoft Estonia Microsoft Finland SitaWare, Mattermost, Microsoft France Thales originally developed on Microsoft Germany Google Cloud & VMware (through BWI), Microsoft Greece Microsoft Hungary Microsoft Ireland Oracle, Microsoft Italy Polo Strategico Nazionale (on Google Cloud and Oracle tech) Latvia Microsoft Lithuania Microsoft Luxembourg Clarence (on Google Cloud tech) Malta Microsoft, Amazon Poland Microsoft, Oracle Portugal Microsoft Romania Microsoft Slovakia Microsoft Slovenia SitaWare BattleCloud, Microsoft Spain Telefonica (backed by Oracle technology) Sweden ? UK Google Cloud, Oracle, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Qui https://futureinstitute.tech/assets/doc/FOTICloudDefenceReport26.pdf il rapporto completo. A.

April 28, 2026

Incontro "Computers, AI, and US Military Power: Revisiting 'The Closed World'" | 7 maggio 2026, ore 16.00

by Nexa - Media

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare all’incontro dal titolo “Computers, AI, and US Military Power: Revisiting 'The Closed World’” che si terrà giovedì 7 maggio 2026 alle ore 16.00. Ospite dell’incontro il Prof. Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University and University of Michigan), che analizzerà, in chiave storica e contemporanea, il ruolo dell’IA militare dalle origini nella Guerra Fredda alle sue applicazioni nei conflitti attuali, esaminandone le possibili implicazioni per il futuro del potere globale. L’evento si terrà in IN PRESENZA e ONLINE, in lingua inglese. SEDE FISICA: Sala Conferenze “Luigi Ciminiera” del Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica - Politecnico di Torino (Corso Castelfidardo 34/D<https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47886d1904cc5627:0x570…>, 5° piano). STANZA VIRTUALE: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Per maggiori informazioni è possibile consultare la pagina web dedicata all’incontro: https://nexa.polito.it/computers-ai-and-us-military-power/ Un saluto cordiale, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society<web:%20https://nexa.polito.it> DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/a – Torino Digital Communication Assistant DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino<https://www.dauin.polito.it> Corso Castelfidardo 34/D - Torino mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

April 28, 2026

Consultation on the proposed measures for Google Search data sharing (Article 6(11) of the DMA)

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/dma100209-consultation-proposed-me… *DMA.100209 – Consultation on the proposed measures for Google Search data sharing (Article 6(11) of the DMA)* Consultation on the proposed measures that Alphabet must implement to ensure effective sharing of Google Search data with third party undertakings providing online search engines, as required by Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act ("DMA"). Details Status Open Opening date 16 April 2026 Deadline 1 May 2026, 23:59 (CEST) Target audience All citizens, companies and organisations are welcome to contribute to this consultation. The Commission especially welcomes contributions from companies that are directly affected by the scope of these proceedings, namely those providing online search engine services including AI chatbots with search functionality. Why we are consulting The DMA is a European legislation that aims to make digital markets fairer and more open. The DMA applies to gatekeepers, which are companies operating large digital platforms that play an important role in the digital economy and act as gateways for other companies to access end users. Alphabet is one of such gatekeepers. Amongst others, the DMA requires gatekeepers that operate online search engine services to share anonymised ranking, query, click and view data with other search engines against fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. To assist Alphabet in sharing such data in an effective way, the Commission opened proceedings on 27 January 2026 to specify measures that Alphabet must implement to comply with its data sharing obligation under the DMA. The Commission’s case reference is DMA.100209 <https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/DMA.100209>. On 16 April 2026, the Commission addressed its preliminary findings to Alphabet, including the draft measures that Alphabet must take to ensure effective sharing of Google Search data with other search engines. A case summary and the proposed measures are available in the /Reference documents /section below. *The Commission is now seeking feedback from interested third parties on the proposed measures. *The Commission’s measures cover five areas: * *Eligibility:* Which third parties are eligible to receive data under Article 6(11) of the DMA? * *Data scope: *Which data must Alphabet share? * *Anonymisation*: How must Alphabet anonymise the data based on technical measures complemented by contractual measures, without unnecessarily degrading the quality and usefulness of the data? * *Pricing terms: *What pricing terms for the search data can be considered FRAND? * *Sharing process:* How must Alphabet share the data with third parties? *_In particular, the Commission seeks views on the technical aspects of the measures:_* * *The effectiveness of the measures in practice*: if implemented, will the proposed measures offer search data that is useful for third parties providing search engines to optimise their services while meeting the requirement that the shared data is anonymised? * *The completeness of the measures:* is anything else is needed to ensure effective sharing of search data? * *Timelines:* is the proposed timeline for Alphabet to implement the measures achievable? The Commission will carefully assess the feedback provided by interested parties and Alphabet. The input received may result in adjustments to the proposed measures and will feed in the Commission’s decision making the measures legally binding on Alphabet. The Commission will adopt a final decision by 27 July 2026 (within six months of opening the proceedings). Respond to the consultation /*This consultation concerns Google Search data sharing with third party undertakings providing search engines. The Commission is organising a separate consultation on Alphabet’s Android operating system interoperability with third-party AI services (case reference DMA.100220).*/ You can send your contributions through EU Survey <https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/DMA100209_Consultation_Proposed_Measur…>. The deadline to respond to this consultation is Friday 1 May 2026. *Your submission must be fully _non-confidential_*. *All contributions will be made available to Alphabet for comments*. Contributions will not be published. The Commission may contact you with follow-up questions on your feedback.

April 27, 2026

Programme Announced: 10th GIG-ARTS Conference, Dublin, 14–15 May 2026

by Mauro SANTANIELLO

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the programme for the **10th GIG-ARTS Conference** is now available. The **Tenth European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies** will take place on **14–15 May 2026** at **Dublin City University, All Hallows Campus**. This year’s theme, **“Digital Futures, Sustainable Freedoms: Rights, Responsibilities and Governance,”** will bring together scholars and practitioners to discuss key issues in global internet governance, including digital rights, sustainability, digital authoritarianism, digital sovereignty, AI governance, data centres, and the future of digital regulation. The programme includes keynote speeches, thematic panels, a poster session, and a roundtable on governing digital futures. The full programme is available here: https://gig-arts.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/10th-GIG-ARTS-Conference_Pro… **Please note that the registration deadline is 30 April 2026.** Participants can register via Eventbrite at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/10th-gig-arts-conference-dublin-2026-tickets-19… We look forward to welcoming participants to Dublin for this special tenth edition of the GIG-ARTS Conference. Best regards, The GIG-ARTS Conference Organising Committee

April 26, 2026

Re: There is no AI race

by antonio

> https://open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbertrand/p/there-is-no-ai-race?r=y77av&… ... > V4 is open-source under an MIT license, meaning anyone anywhere can > download the weights, modify them, run them on whatever hardware they > choose. It's competitive with GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 on most AI > benchmarks, and priced at a small fraction - or even “free” if you choose > to download it and run it yourself. But the single most striking thing > about V4 isn't the benchmarks or even the price. It's that V4 has zero > dependency on Nvidia’s CUDA anywhere in its stack - it runs entirely on > Huawei Ascend chips via Huawei's own CANN framework. In other words: China > now not only has its own frontier AI models, it has its own domestic AI > stack, top to bottom. And it's giving the whole thing away to the world - > the exact opposite of the “hoard and dominate” posture of the U.S. labs. ... Questa parte non è chiarissima. Lungi da me difendere gli "accumulatori e dominatori" statunitensi ma in pratica la situazione è questa: Fino ad oggi chi voleva entrare nel campo dell'elaborazione AI aveva bisogno di un chip Nvidia e di un framework dal nome CUDA (in pratica un monopolio statunitense). Da adesso, a parità di potenza di calcolo, c'è l'alternativa cinese, chip Huawei Ascend e framework CANN. Il resto del mondo che farà? Continuerà a scegliere gli americani e quindi Nvidia o i cinesi e quindi Huawei? Usare il termine open-source, l'abbiamo detto tante volte, con l'AI è inappropriato. A.

April 26, 2026