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> You name the 10 most important tech products of the year so far.

Do name them, please. And then revisit that list and ask yourself: how many of them exist because of two things:

- unlimited investor money with no expectation of profitability

- blatant disregard of data privacy, user privacy, and/or other laws.

Great example is OpenAI. They said they welcomed regulation. The moment EU proposed level-headed sensible regulation [1] that among other things required documentation on how foundational models are trained and where they get their data, Altman screamed that they would pull out of EU.

[1] https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...