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Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
“I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that…
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ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its…
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How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo
Arktis’ detectors can also be installed in doorways or used in luggage-handling locations. They work entirely passively but are different…
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Digital Traders Want to Go Fish
The chaos begins at 5 am. The markets open, the traders arrive, and the auction floor heaves. Over the next…
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The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
Meta denies it has to alter the way it operates in response to the EU ruling, claiming it just needs…
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Does Meta’s Horizon Workrooms Deliver? Customers Say Yes … and No
It’s a rhetorical question, but LeBeau’s statements when we met in Workrooms for an interview several weeks ago suggest he…
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Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
Late last year, I attended an event hosted by Google to celebrate its AI advances. The company’s domain in New York’s…
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No One Will Escape the FTX Fallout
Venture capital investment in crypto is drying up, according to a recent paper released by market data house PitchBook. After a…
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Twitter Promised Them Severance. They Got Nothing
Shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk laid off around 50 percent of the company’s staff. On the same day, he tweeted…
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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace,…
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