But long before that, I believe there will be other noticeable effects. As someone working in a medium sized European company, with substantial investments across private infrastructures, AWS, GCP and some Azure, I can testify to that since last couple of weeks the Public Cloud Exit strategies around having services being prepared is a very hot topic. This concerns both existing services preparations as well as enforcing standards and configurations for new services.

Claude does seem to be explicitly blocking people living in GDPR jurisdictions to sign up. I don’t know what to make of that, but this statement from the first paragraph rings false.

Likely problems like these could be overcome, but preparing better input would probably not address the root cause of the problems with Siri.

> We have no reason to believe that the exposed key was abused and took this action out of an abundance of caution.

This is not verifiable, right? As the authentication method has no public and required revocation source, and given that the key, if having leaked, likely will be acquired by an authoritarian government, they can selectively MITM organizations and users that are not aware of this blog post.

As an example [of the contrary], I noticed Swedish Klarna among the partners that OpenAI revealed when announcing their plug-in API today.

Do you mean Google or GCP? We don’t see complaints about AWS because Amazon closes Dash buttons or Spark, and also Azure is not seen in any worse light due to Microsoft discontinues Skype and what not.

Can we name one remotely popular service of GCP that has been shut down at all?

How unacceptable.

This sort of implies that cash registers must be connected online to the tax authority or some governmental function in order to operate. That is simply not true.

As a minor detail but nonetheless I think makes a difference, the name of the other language was "Go!", not "Go". That makes the similarity in line with C#, C, C--, C++ and F, F#, F* and several others. Yes in some cases these languages are inspired by the others and in some cases not.

As someone who frequently talks to colleagues across timezones that are -9, -2, or +3.5 hours from me, where each of these have different dates for summer time, or don't have summer time, and meeting recurrences gets skewed etc, I don't see how asking about the current time off a location could be seen as "pretentious".