The person who destroyed the left in Iceland is now running an ‘AI’ centre: ‘New Nordics AI’

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Katrín orðin stjórnar­for­maður - Vísir

Katrín Jakobsdóttir, fyrrverandi forsætisráðherra, hefur tekið við stöðu stjórnarformanns ný...

This thing: “New centre for artificial intelligence launched to promote use of AI in Nordics and Baltics” https://www.norden.org/en/news/new-centre-artificial-intelligence-launched-promote-use-ai-nordics-and-baltics

Four photos from 2024 #iceland #nature #fog

“The 10x “overemployed” engineer - by Gergely Orosz”

The 10x “overemployed” engineer

A software engineer worked at several AI startups at the same time, without his employers knowing anything about it. Then one frustrated founder wh...

> [He] was working at several Y Combinator startups at once, and had been doing so for over a year, all while failing to do the work he was hired to do All the respect for somebody who conned almost 23 'AI' startups into hiring him, doing no work, and yet in some cases getting paid for a year before these chucklefucks of mismanagement noticed. Legend

It’s kind of interesting that Americans, in both traditional and social media, keep saying that TikTok has been sold, when it’s just the US operations that have been spun off. If TikTok’s EU operations had been sold, would EU media be constantly talking as if the global entity had been sold?

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