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Switzerland's open-source rules and Google's privacy plans lead the Index
Transparency and privacy are top of mind with this week's innovations. Meanwhile, Apple and Meta raise the bar for LLMs.
While European nations are regularly ahead of the US in terms of software responsibility, we'll have to see if Switzerland's new standard impacts governments globally moving forward. The catch -- because, of course, there is one -- is that improved performance of these tools would rely on wider adoption, putting the onus of implementation back on, well, entities that aren't Google. While other browsers have simply blocked third-party cookies by default, Google's approach splits the difference between the concerns of surveilled users and the interests of advertisers who rely on revenue.
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