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Why Google says AIs shouldn’t be issued patents- POLITICO

Why Google says AIs shouldn’t be issued patents- POLITICO

With help from Derek Robertson Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. | AP Artificial intelligences are not people, my friends — at least, not where patent law is concerned. And Google wants to keep it that way. Last month a federal appeals court found an AI cannot be labeled an “inventor” under U.S. patent law, ruling against Stephen Thaler, who runs a company called Imagination Engines, and in favor of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Thaler claims the… Source link

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Google’s Jeffries strikes out on his own- POLITICO

Google’s Jeffries strikes out on his own- POLITICO

With Daniel Lippman GOOGLE LOBBYIST HANGS A SHINGLE: Stewart Jeffries, an in-house lobbyist at Google for more than a decade, is launching his own government affairs shop, Jeffries Strategies. Jeffries joined Google in 2011 as the tech giant’s first competition policy counsel amid an FTC probe into its business practices, and later led the company’s outreach to House and Senate Republican leadership, committees and personal offices. — He previously served as the chief antitrust… Source link

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Trade and Tech Council 2.0 — Google vs. Yandex — Crypto warning – POLITICO

Trade and Tech Council 2.0 — Google vs. Yandex — Crypto warning – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article POLITICO’s weekly transatlantic tech newsletter for global technology elites and political influencers. By MARK SCOTT Send tips here | Subscribe for free | View in your browser WELCOME BACK, this is Digital Bridge. I’m Mark Scott, POLITICO’s chief technology correspondent, and I’ll be interviewing the European Commission’s Werner Stengg and the White House’s Peter Harrell later today about… Source link

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5 things to know about the EU’s new Google cases – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Brussels has opened two preliminary investigations into Google’s advertising practices, investigating how the company gathers data and how it operates in the multi-layered market of display advertising technology. Today is the deadline for a host of companies to send their responses to questionnaires they received from the European Commission in December. In this second round of questioning, the Commission narrowed… Source link

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