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TikTok and Amazon Bet on China’s Ecommerce Model. It’s a Dud
The pandemic sent the livestream sales industry into overdrive. The Chinese government’s strict “zero Covid” policies hit the brick-and-mortar retail…
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Now That ChatGPT Is Plugged In, Things Could Get Weird
A number of open source projects such as LangChain and LLamaIndex are also exploring ways of building applications using the capabilities provided…
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ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It
Ecosia, which uses Bing results and invests its profits in environmental projects, is considering potential partners to develop its own chatbot.…
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11 Tips to Take Your ChatGPT Prompts to the Next Level
ChatGPT and tools like it have made AI available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses…
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The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
Assuming democracy remains intact in the years to come, Levitsky thinks the GOP will have to eventually moderate its stance…
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Crypto Was Afraid to Show Its Face at SXSW 2023
For every one of these companies, however, I saw just as many (if not more) that employed crypto while trying…
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Bob Metcalfe, The Man Who Discovered Network Effects, Isn’t Sorry
ChatGPT warned me against asking legendary engineer Bob Metcalfe about his 1996 prediction that the internet would collapse. This came…
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The Fight to Expose Corporations’ Real Impact on the Climate
For many companies, those indirect emissions dwarf all the rest. Some companies and business groups contend that it is unfair…
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The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
In one sense, today’s US congressional hearing on TikTok was a big success: It revealed, over five hours, how desperately…
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TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech…
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