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Black and Queer AI Groups Say They’ll Spurn Google Funding
Three groups focused on increasing diversity in artificial intelligence say they will no longer take funding from Google. In a…
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The Pentagon Inches Toward Letting AI Control Weapons
Last August, several dozen military drones and tank-like robots took to the skies and roads 40 miles south of Seattle.…
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Epic v. Apple and the Plan to Avoid ‘Looking Like the Baddies’
“You’ll enjoy the upcoming fireworks show,” wrote Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in an email to Microsoft head of Xbox…
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Why Amy Klobuchar Just Wrote 600 Pages on Antitrust
Plus: The iPhone before the App Store, the threat of digital enhancement, and the unlikely darling of the liberals. Source…
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Twitter Groups Offer India a Covid-19 Lifeline
In Srinagar, the city where I live in Indian-administered Kashmir, the streets are deserted under a lockdown. But through Twitter…
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To Make These Chips More Powerful, IBM Is Growing Them Taller
Computer chips might be in short supply at the moment, but chipmakers will continue wringing more power out of them…
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Oversight Board to Facebook: We’re Not Doing Your Dirty Work
On January 21, Facebook asked its Oversight Board to review its decision to indefinitely ban Donald Trump, and guide it…
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Trump’s Facebook Ban Is Upheld—For Now
The Facebook Oversight Board is often described as a “Supreme Court” for Facebook. On Wednesday, it acted like it—issuing a…
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Help! How Can I Be a Better Mentor?
Dear OOO, My company started a mentorship program mid-pandemic, and I was assigned to mentor a young and extremely talented…
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It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
OpenAI said the service would empower businesses and startups and granted Microsoft, a hefty backer of OpenAI, an exclusive license…
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