Today in ZDNet, a propaganda site of advertisers like Microsoft and IBM. It relays IBM's PR talking points alongside Microsoft's (Microsoft helps ICE and other oppressors who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity).
Summary: It is important to understand that IBM never apologised or expressed remorse for what it did; instead if keeps pretending that it never happened -- a chronic sense of deep denial -- and right now it wants us to think that banning a bunch of words will be enough (or a substitute for lack of apologies and substantial action)
"The key change in this year’s Actuarial Study, due to cascading the new “risk appetite” from the financial study, is a significant increase of the total pension contribution rate of 5.7 percentage points, up to a total of 37.8%. This is driven by an unprecedented decrease in the discount rate of 105 bps down to 2.2%."
Some publicly available information suggests that even for each paid subscriber for plagiarism (LLM 'coding') GitHub Copilot still loses more money than it makes
"Mr Neidle said after repelling Mr Zahawi he was contacted by bloggers and tweeters who had received similar threats. They deleted their work “and in most cases never commented publicly on anything again”."
