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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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Photography Is No Longer Evidence of Anything
For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of…
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4 Internal Apple Emails That Helped the DOJ Build Its Case
Apple uses the dominance of the iPhone to illegally suppress competition in ways that harm consumers, the US Department of…
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The Antitrust Case Against Apple Argues It Has a Stranglehold on the Future
The US Department of Justice had long been expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. But when the suit…
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One Man’s Army of Streaming Bots Reveals a Whole Industry’s Problem
A man in Denmark was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for using fake accounts to trick music streaming…
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Reddit Stock Surges on Its First Day of Trading
A big concern ahead of the public listing was that Reddit, the platform that gave birth to the memestocks of…
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The US Sues Apple in an iPhone Antitrust Blockbuster
The US Department of Justice, along with more than a dozen state attorneys general, has filed a lawsuit against Apple…
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The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge
Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an…
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Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven…
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