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Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tech mogul cited California's new transgender rights law as “the final straw” for moving out of the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much. And don't ask it to license its archive to AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam Altman is touting AI's ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a user backlash, Adobe has been forced to clarify how it will use creators' work. But can it be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten's self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he's back, with a plan for a happier social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that's just a hallucination, but it's working. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

LinkedIn's new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tesla shareholders will decide whether to back Elon Musk's leadership—and unprecedented 11-figure bonus—in a pivotal moment for the carmaker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don't get one, they are threatening to sue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Influencer Keith Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, became a Pied Piper for amateur stock traders after sparking a historic GameStop short squeeze. But his next move could land him in big trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices