Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial
Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Phil Hoad / The Guardian : An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic “algorithm films” intended for broad appe...
A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression
We're used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what's left for the human imagination? X: @newyorker . LinkedIn: Pinja Pakalen , ...
Report: before tweeting a pro-Russia Ukraine peace plan, Elon Musk said he had Kremlin consultations; he also told the US of a Putin call but publicly denied it
“One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk's permission.” —...
A writer details using AI startup Writer's LLM to generate text in his writing style and says most “insights” that the tool produced felt hollow or approximated
A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. Mastodon: @taiyo@ostatus.taiyolab.com . Twitter: @kantrowitz , @delia_cai , @datasociety...
A deep look at the rift between some prominent SV figures and the journalists increasingly critical of the tech industry, based on Slate Star Codex vs. The NYT
Long, angry LRB essay by Pankaj Mishra. Tweets: Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis : Had a fun chat just now with Lewis-Kraus on positive sum ways to build a new relationship between tech & media. He rec...
An in-depth look at Microsoft's ElectionGuard voting software, led by cryptographer Josh Benaloh, which aims to check whether election results are accurate
A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy. — Near the end of last year, I met Josh Benaloh … Tweets: @bradsmi , @tonitwhitley , @tomburt45 , @brennancenter , @ahier , and @...
Profiles of tech CEOs that mostly focus on personality, like the recent New Yorker piece on Zuckerberg, can at best shed light on platforms' problems indirectly
On the limits of tech company CEO interviews — Can Mark Zuckerberg fix Facebook before it breaks democracy?
Behind the debate on whether the CFAA should be amended to allow private companies and citizens that are victims of cybercrimes to “hack back”
American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law? Tweets: @hatr , @ericgeller , and @malwaretechblog Tweets: @h...