Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … LinkedIn: Jon Lam . Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social . Tw...
A profile of stablecoin developer Tether, which has withstood huge redemption runs during the current brutal crypto winter, competition, and regulatory pressure
Amid crypto's existential crisis, its largest liquidity provider, Tether, has withstood multiple multibillion-dollar redemption runs. Tweets: @mdudas , @silvermanjacob , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Mik...
MetaDocs, an NFT project that promises access to real doctors, faces backlash from the medical community because it is not a licensed telemedicine service
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @ryanmarino , @drjengunter , and @kenbensinger Tweets: Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : NEW: What happens when a crypto project claims it can disrupt healthca...
A look at “Sharp Eyes”, a computerized video surveillance program that aims to surveil 100% of Chinese public spaces and relies largely on reports from citizens
The program turns neighbors into agents of the surveillance state — One of China's largest … Tweets: @medium , @ozm , @ozm , @aedison , @sarahnemerson , and @seamusblackley Tweets: @medium : China's...
A look at how COVID-19 has accelerated development of tech that tracks workers, and how physically tracing employees could be mainstream even after the pandemic
A boom in contact tracing devices could herald a new era of worker surveillance — Before April, Radiant RFID … Tweets: @davegershgorn , @sarahnemerson , @bcmerchant , @davegershgorn , and @medium Tw...
An investigation of the cult leader behind Acellus, an online learning platform used by thousands of US students, who's been accused of violence and abuse
The creator of Acellus and the 'cult's leader has been accused of violence and abuse — was summer when Mark Mauikānehoalani Lovell … Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @bendwalsh , @aarongell , @mvzelenks , @...
Pinterest's moderation approach, which blocks content at the search query level, rather than removing it entirely, lets some objectionable content remain
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After outcry, Nextdoor pledges to provide more explicit guidelines on how to moderate against racism and tells community leads to allow BLM discussions
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Menlo Park PD's “Facebook Unit”, partly funded by the company, comes under fire by Black Lives Matters protestors, who say it endangers people of color
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Interview with US CTO Michael Kratsios on the government's recent regulatory framework for AI, the potential for an AI cold war with China, and more
In a WIRED Q&A, the US chief technology officer warns against overregulating tech, underestimating the Chinese, and losing America's lead in quantum computing. Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @wiredbusiness ...