A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Tweets: @krishnanrohit , @buccocapital , @carnage4life , @dkthomp ...
A look at a fossil fuel power plant in NY that has been restarted to mine crypto, as NY considers a bill for placing a three-year moratorium on crypto mining
The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash Tweets: @the_moviebob , @ruskin147 , @carnage4life , @ayanaeliza , @davidfickling , @d...
A look at a fossil fuel power plant in NY that has been restarted to mine crypto, as NY considers a bill for placing a three-year moratorium on crypto mining
The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash Tweets: @brianspegele , @the_moviebob , @bcappelbaum , @ayanaeliza , @nkingofdc , @dav...
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles … Tweets: @tomgara , @mathewi , @mattzeitlin , @seanrose , @...
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website
privacy breach on invite-only app raises concerns Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE : This Website Made Clubhouse Conversations Public Becky Bracken / Threatpost : Assume Clubhouse Conversations Ar...
A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop's stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment
Over the past several weeks, GameStop stock has traded … Philip Stafford / Financial Times : GameStop and BlackBerry shares soar on amateur traders' fervour YouTube : The Big Short SQUEEZE from $5 to ...
A look at privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, which has ~1% share of the search engine market but says it handles ~40M searches a day, up 3x over the past two years
PAOLI, Pa. — Gabriel Weinberg is taking aim at Google from a small building 20 miles west of Philadelphia that looks like a fake castle. Tweets: @alecstapp , @eff , @imhassan , and @quatrainman Tweets...