While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...
Few US lawmakers are taking action to regulate AI, as many struggle to understand the technology and its dangers, unlike the EU which proposed AI rules in 2021
Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said. Tweets: @reptedlieu , @neilturkewitz , @geomblog , @cademetz , @ceciliakang , @pstasi...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
and lining their pockets — at the expense of our rights and livelihoods.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Gladstein / @gladstein : “Bitcoiners aren't supposed to trust government. After all, one of B...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government. Tweets: @timmuth , @fredbenenson , @schwarz , @stalfel , @gladstein , @nytopin...
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets
On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages. Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @pomeranian99 , @macmccanntx , @joshuatopolsky , @markyarm , @yaso , a...
A look at anonymity in crypto, as some VCs back founders without learning their names and pseudonymous entrepreneurs control hundreds of millions of dollars
Investors give money to pseudonymous developers. Venture capitalists back founders without learning their real names. Tweets: @hshaban , @jessefelder , @nytimestech , @blackamazon , @nytimestech , @y...
AI tools can generate an optimal poker strategy, balancing bluffing and playing it straight, which some professional players are using to augment their play
Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight. Now they can do so perfectly. Tweets: @marloscmachado , @nytimes , @octonion , @ele...
Current and former insiders shed light on IBM's missteps with Watson, as IBM takes a less ambitious approach to commercializing Watson in the corporate market
IBM's artificial intelligence was supposed to transform industries and generate riches for the company. Neither has panned out. Tweets: @counternotions , @leapingrobot , @scottnations , @patentology ...