As social media platforms pivot away from news distribution, a look at news sites like The Verge, which feel more like social media, with aggregation and more
As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and others detail his growing international power, childhood, career, politics, role in the Ukraine war, and more
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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 , @deli...
As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself
OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? — In 2013, workers at a German …
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, a pilot plan with access in peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features, in the US for $20 per month
and it has Google in its sights Preethi Cheguri / Analytics Insight : OpenAI Announces New Subscription Plan for ChatGPT Plus Marcus Gopolang Moloko / Gearburn : Here's why OpenAI ...
A look at OpenAI's open-source speech recognition software Whisper, which can transcribe speech in more than 90 languages, outperforming humans in some of them
OpenAI's open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going. https://www.newyorker.com/... @niemanlab : “Ever since I've had tape to type up—lec...
A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix's global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy to adapt successful show formats to different parts of the world
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A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more
A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.
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 , @kreissd...
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot
Sue Halpern / New Yorker : Tweets: @brandonhamber , @michaelluo , @newyorker , and @hoanssolo Tweets: Brandon Hamber / @brandonhamber : While people fight over masks and freedoms,...
If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games
it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... ...
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 , @sheela...
A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members
The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out. Tweets: @michaelluo , @kari_paul , @dlippman , @chaykak ...
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
Profile of Cerebras, which made the world's largest chip by using a “wafer-scale” approach that offers one possibility for AI chips to keep up with Moore's law
In the race to accelerate A.I., the Silicon Valley company Cerebras has landed on an unusual strategy: go big.
A look at the rise and fall of Skycoin, a cryptocurrency that had a ~$5B total value in 2018, ran a team of social media “shills”, and was plagued by scandals
The cryptocurrency promised to change the world and make its users rich in the process. Then it began to fall apart. Tweets: @ofnumbers , @michaelluo , and @hkanji Tweets: Tim Swa...
For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity”
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
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