The EU's AI Act calls them open source, so that ship has sailed.

Yes, but that only puts an upper limit on the price that anyone would be willing to pay.

It's like this: Both companies estimate how much money they expect to make from using those servers for their own purposes. In Mistral's case, that might be a negative amount. Regardless, Microsoft obviously can put the capacity to better use. So they can offer to rent it from Mistral for more than Mistral believes it can make on its own. Basically, MS passes on some of their profits to Mistral.

Continental Europe had worse copyright laws since the 19th century. The US founding fathers were enlightenment age idealists, hence the copyright clause. European copyright laws were created by authoritarian empires. It's a major reason why we can't do tech. And I suspect also why Europe can't answer to the dominance of US culture.

Legal theft like the Mickey-Mouse-Protection-Law is controversial in the US. In the EU, it goes by without comment. That ends up giving casual observers an exactly reverse impression of the legal and social situation. Same for a lot of issues.

Very minor. They are simply not illegal at present. This does not put a check on lawmakers wanting to outlaw or "regulate" them.

a) The EU extended copyright before the US. It went even further than the US by reviving previously expired copyrights.

b) The relevant copyrights are expired in most of Europe. They still exist in the NL because of a special exemption granted by lawmakers.

What would you consider sufficient to confirm the story?

That reddit comment makes no sense.

The perp has been found.

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

Hah. I don't even know if you mean Thiel or the guy behind Axel Springer.

There are no ads on that site. It is a press release by the company and not a press report. They make no money of your clicks.

I didn't need that mental image. But since you have installed it in my head, I am honor-bound to upvote.

sigh

Seriously, why are they producing all these great promo shots for him? If they had done that for someone like Bernie Sanders, the US would be in much better shape now.

(explaining the title reference)