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Sep 04, 2024•43 sec
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Sep 04, 2024•36 sec
Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 31, 2024•9 min
While a fight over betting on US elections plays out in court, the tech-savvy are gambling hundreds of millions of dollars on cryptocurrencies inspired by politicians. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 30, 2024•6 min
The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 29, 2024•5 min
Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime. In stark contrast, automakers are struggling to work out how long their “smartphones on wheels” can be kept on the road. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 26, 2024•8 min
System administrators and their teams sprang into action last Friday and worked tirelessly to get their companies back online amid one of the worst digital blackouts ever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 25, 2024•7 min
The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 24, 2024•6 min
The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 23, 2024•5 min
With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 22, 2024•4 min
Tech companies—including OpenAI—are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 19, 2024•4 min
The tech mogul cited California’s new transgender rights law as “the final straw” for moving out of the state. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 18, 2024•4 min
By order of a UK judge, Craig Wright can no longer claim he is the creator of bitcoin and now faces the prospect of criminal charges. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 17, 2024•4 min
After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn’t changed much. And don’t ask it to license its archive to AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 16, 2024•10 min
Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 15, 2024•4 min
Sam Altman is touting AI’s ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 12, 2024•5 min
Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 11, 2024•11 min
Reports of intimate images and video posted online without consent are growing, and deepfakes add a horrifying new dimension to the problem. Google insiders say they’ve struggled to get executives to act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 10, 2024•10 min
The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 09, 2024•10 min
As fears of a pandemic mount, the biotech company’s mRNA vaccine trial is set to release Phase 1/2 results later this year, with a larger Phase 3 trial expected to begin in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 08, 2024•7 min
The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 04, 2024•8 min
By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 03, 2024•6 min
The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 02, 2024•6 min
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 01, 2024•6 min
Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 28, 2024•6 min
The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 27, 2024•9 min
Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 26, 2024•8 min
An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 25, 2024•8 min
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 24, 2024•8 min
Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 21, 2024•5 min
