The conundrums of creating—and understanding—public digital infrastructure.| futurepolis.substack.com
The European Union is writing a $56 million check for researchers to build a large language model to rival its American and Chinese competitors.| Forbes
Many of us are aghast at the unprecedented dismantlement of the US administrative state. Mass terminations. Website erasure. Removal of watchdogs. Unchecked access to the treasury. All around me, people are trying to connect what’s happening to historical events. Is this fascism? A hostile corporate takeover? A coup? People want a frame both to understand what’s happening and grapple with what’s coming. Most of the people I know are also struggling to figure out where they can take action.| danah boyd | apophenia
Mistral AI has closed its much-rumored Series B funding round, raising €600 million (around $640 million) in a mix of equity and debt.| TechCrunch
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.| huggingface.co
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The explosion of digital infrastructure systems over the past thirty years may be the biggest but least recognised shock delivered by the internet. We need to develop the governance capacity to manage it and force it out of hands of the democracy-hostile corporations that control it today.| Robin Berjon
Today's links| Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow