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Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-withdraws-

Santa Barbara is gearing up to host its 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18, 2025.
Free tours aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin and Tall Ship Mystic Whaler are offered,
along with harbor rides on Azure Seas and Kelpie.
This year, Santa Barbara Sailing Center will introduce sailing lessons for attendees.
To promote eco-friendly travel, MOVE Santa Barbara County offers a free bike valet for festivalgoers.
Visit before or after you get a sk…

Santa Barbara to Host 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18 - edhat
The day-long event at the Santa Barbara Harbor on October 18 is a free community tradition runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen