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The Boring Future of Generative AI
This week, at its annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Google showcased a head-spinning number of projects and products powered…
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Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet
Self-driving-car developers initially held a similar philosophy of data maximization. They generate video from arrays of cameras inside and outside…
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Europe’s Moral Crusader Lays Down the Law on Encryption | WIRED
“If we, as the EU, can mandate service providers to scan for some content through a backdoor, other states will…
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Twitter’s Encrypted DMs Are Deeply Inferior to Signal and WhatsApp
Elon Musk’s long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to…
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Google I/O 2023: Google Adds Generative AI to Search
Six months ago, Google didn’t appear remotely worried about its search business. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unleashed, and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a…
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Twitter’s Purge of Old Accounts Will Be Pure Chaos
Mariann Hardey’s father died unexpectedly a little over a decade ago. But he lives on through his Twitter account. It…
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This European Satellite Giant Is Coming for Starlink
Eva Berneke describes her first year at the helm of the world’s third-largest satellite company as a “whirlwind.” That’s an…
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Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off
On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received…
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A Radical Plan to Make AI Good, Not Evil
It’s easy to freak out about more advanced artificial intelligence—and much more difficult to know what to do about it. Anthropic, a…
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Should You Get Paid for Teaching a Chatbot to Do Your Job?
As a result, the company spent a lot of time training new workers hired to replace those who quit. Many…
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