Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more
Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.
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 , ...
Condé Nast agrees a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired
Publishers looking at the media landscape are likely realizing … BBC : ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Forges Content Partnership Wit...
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals
There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. Tweets: @brendannyhan , @kreissdaniel , @sivavaid , @kreissdaniel , @ayshardzn ,...
Profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, as some longtime staffers worry she is underestimating the risks of pursuing aggressive antitrust cases that are likely to fail
As monopolies and other large companies gain increasing control of our daily lives, Khan is Joe Biden's pick to do something about it. Tweets: @davidmwessel , @michaelluo , @sheelahk , @econliberties ...
How “neo-conglomerates” like Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta replaced and outgrew industrial conglomerates like GE, Toshiba, and Johnson & Johnson
it is like cutting an egg in half” Tweets: Darren Herman / @dherman76 : When I was in college, we studied GE pretty intensely. Today? https://www.wsj.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : Related! FTC Lina ...
Profile of Kurtis Minder, who for the past year has been managing fraught discussions between companies and hackers as a ransomware negotiator
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying. — A few days after Thanksgiving last year … Tweets: @howelloneill , @andyboxall , @davbatz , @hello...
As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe”
Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker … Tweets: @rachellevinsf , @chrisasolomon , @sesmith , @skiingrogge , @outsidemagazine , @talkpo...
A critical look at OpenAI's GPT-2 text generation AI and why the knowledge acquired by systems like the GPT-2 has been superficial and unreliable
OpenAI's GPT-2 has been discussed everywhere from The New Yorker to The Economist. What does it really tell us about natural and artificial intelligence? Tweets: @sapinker , @talyarkoni , @plevy , @b...