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China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving
“The high-context nature of Chinese language used to create hurdles in natural language processing,” says Thomas Qitong Cao, a PhD…
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The Fraud-Detection Business Has a Dirty Secret
The algorithm’s impact on Serbia’s Roma community has been dramatic. Ahmetović says his sister has also had her welfare payments…
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Startups Want to Cash In on the US Student Debt Crisis
The pause has allowed people to pay down other debts, save money, and improve credit scores. It has also brought…
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ChatGPT’s API Is Here. Let the AI Gold Rush Begin
When OpenAI, the San Francisco company developing artificial intelligence tools, announced the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, former Facebook…
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Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die
Fewer than 20 Boeing 747-200s remain in service worldwide, and only in cargo or military configurations. The US Air Force…
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What to Do When Your Boss Is Spying on You
You’re not being paranoid. If you always feel like somebody’s watching you, as the song goes, you’re probably right. Especially…
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Amazon’s HQ2 Aimed to Show Tech Can Boost Cities. Now It’s on Pause
After a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite…
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A Native Son of Palo Alto Thinks His Hometown Will Kill Us All
I meet Malcolm Harris, voice of millennials and anti-capitalist crusader, at a Brooklyn coffee shop, suggested by his publicist for a…
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Welcome to the Museum of the Future AI Apocalypse
“There’s so much goodness this kind of tech can engender, so much suffering it can prevent, and then there’s the…
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New Crypto Mixer Promises to Be Tornado Cash Without the Crime
Under Soleimani’s system, individual users will be responsible for marking out which other depositors they do not want to be…
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