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Graphcore Was the UK’s AI Champion—Now It’s Scrambling to Stay Afloat
Last month, the UK government announced the home for its new exascale supercomputer, designed to give the country an edge…
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Epic Games’ Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
After work hours on September 27 last week, employees of Fortnite maker Epic Games received a calendar invite informing them…
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Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search
It may be difficult for search engines to automatically detect AI-generated text. But Microsoft could have implemented some basic safeguards,…
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In the War Against Russia, Some Ukrainians Carry AK-47s. Andrey Liscovich Carries a Shopping List
In hindsight, zhenya Podtikov realized, he should have known that Ukraine’s first Vector drone was not long for this world.…
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Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating
Wining and dining, wooing clients with creative offers, and cashing big bonuses provide the glamor to sales work. Drafting answers…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Made Reasonable Business Decisions, Lawyers Claim
Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have lost at least $8 billion in customer money, but he “didn’t intend to…
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Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
David Ferrucci, CEO of AI company Elemental Cognition and previously the lead on IBM’s Watson project, says language models have…
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How to Be Extremely Online and Influence People
Lauren: Our guest this week is Taylor Lorenz. Taylor is a prominent technology journalist at The Washington Post, and she’s…
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How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Davis has released hundreds of pages of emails, contractual documents, memos, and other veterinary records detailing the public university’s work…
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Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Terrible Client
In the weeks after Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange began to crumble last November, he chose to ignore the most…
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