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Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’
The organizations we recommend offer the best bang for the buck. That often means saving the lives of children under…
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Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms…
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The Science of Crypto Forensics Survives a Court Battle—for Now
On March 12, Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was found guilty of money laundering conspiracy and other violations by a federal…
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism
The idea of Singer that excited me was that each of us should give a lot of money to help…
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Here Comes the Flood of Plug-In Hybrids
Last week, the Biden administration made it official: American cars are really going electric. The US Environmental Protection Agency finalized…
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Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would be shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media monitoring and transparency tool that…
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The EU Targets Apple, Meta, and Alphabet for Investigations Under New Tech Law
Apple is among three tech giants being investigated for failing to comply with the European Union’s new competition rules, in…
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A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims
Another image on the site showed a group of young teens who appear to be in middle school: a boy…
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Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the…
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The Case Against Apple Weaponizes the Cult of Cupertino
Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to on-stage interviews, an audience member asked Apple…
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