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Comment Google may be safe (Score 1) 109

IANAL, but there's a precedent in the anthropic ruling (page 11-ish), where the judge argues that using the books a-la-Google is fair use for training.

Anthropic got in trouble for using pirated books.

Google has scanned pretty much every book under the sun by buying it, digitizing, and destroying it and in that ruling that can be fairly used to train an LLM.

Google may settle just to get over it, but it has a decent fighting chance.

Comment Oracle could still shed about 30/40% of it's org (Score 2, Informative) 40

Oracle is extremely over-staffed.

I left when it was at ~120K employees (after Sun's acquisition), and the amount of people that did essentially nothing other than posturing was staggering (at least in the middleware division).

With proper organization and tooling it could have done the same or more with about half of the engineers, and that's *before* AI tooling.

The talent pools are bimodal, you have a small pool of extremely talented people that carry the weight of the org, and enormous swaths of seat warmers. There's a lot of politics, and headcount can be a source of power. Incentives were set so managers tried to hold as much headcount as possible to increase their leverage in the org.

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