A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others
Editor's note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. X: @kait_tiffany . Bluesky: @katienotopoulos , @damonberes.com , @justinhendrix ,...
A profile of Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé whose Pirate Wires newsletter and podcast became popular among “anti-woke” tech figures since the “techlash”
I miss when people used to at least pretend they weren't terrible people instead of wearing it like a badge of honor. — https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... X: @mitchhorowitz : After 27 years in publish...
The White House plans to curb the “overuse and abuse” of the de minimis loophole used by Shein and Temu, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs
so I welcome steps to equalize tariffs for different modes of shipment Riley Walters / @walteriley : Why de minimis wasn't included in China week? It seems because the WH had something brewing FACT SH...
An interview with Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington on their startup Thrive AI Health to build an AI health coach, and why AI has become a technology of faith
so he asked them about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the entrepreneur Arianna Huffington want to remake America's health-care system with generative AI....
Kids are interacting with AI in school and online, serving as testers for a new generation of tech, making them the ones to experience some of its worst effects
the smallest children may hear bedtime stories generated via ChatGPT by their parents, while older teens may run into chatbots on the apps they use every day—but this is now the reality.” https://www....
A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter
https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... #tech #TechHistory #BlackTech #web #SocialMedia Clive Thompson / @clive@saturation.social : Awesome piece on BlackPlanet, the pioneering social network that got a lot...
The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform
and I am thrilled to see Tai seeking—greater balance in trade, the peace that falls between the extremes, avoiding the 20th century tendency to take every notion (like interdependence) beyond its logi...
A look at the costs of a smartphone-based childhood, as Gen Z struggles with poor mental health and lags behind previous generations on many important metrics
particularly onto social-media platforms designed for virality & addiction.” 👇 https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Jack Badelaire / @jbadelaire : I'm not a parent, but many of my friends are, and I've wo...
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions, to win back US shoppers; US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in December 2023 and 4.8% in January
the results of running the same commercial 5 times Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC : Temu returns to Super Bowl ad slate as lawmaker ire swells X: @tayredacted : Temu used y'all's credit card info to buy tw...
OpenAI's GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform's 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers' products to boost stickiness
The whole endeavor has a strong Facebook-in-2007 vibe. OpenAI is beginning the search for its FarmVille. — www.theatlantic.com/technology/ a... X: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : This has a pretty strong...