The article argues that corporate restrictions on LLM access are falsely justified through claims about safety, intellectual property, and liability. Drawing a parallel to Florence's 1299 ban on Arabic numerals, the author contends that such restrictions preserve institutional monopolies by limiting access to computational tools, regardless of the stated rationale.
A new DNA analysis of remains from the Medici family confirms that Francesco I de' Medici, second grand duke of Tuscany, died of malaria in 1587, not from poisoning as rumored. Researchers identified the Plasmodium falciparum parasite in Francesco's and his brother Giovanni's rib bones, supporting historical accounts and debunking centuries-old conspiracy theories about his brother Ferdinando.