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Chris Stokel-Walker

Chris Stokel-Walker

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Why are U.S. utilities so vulnerable to cyberattacks?

19.04.2024 10

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Tesla’s place atop the EV market could be coming to an end

16.04.2024 7

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Elon Musk’s xAI wants to raise $1 billion. But can his AI company stand out?

Investor interest in generative AI startups remains high, with more than $21 billion plowed into companies in the first nine months of this year,...

06.12.2023 10

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ChatGPT tops Wikipedia’s most-viewed pages of 2023

Wikipedia is seen by many as one of the front pages of the internet and a major contributor and documenter of human knowledge. Which is what makes the...

05.12.2023 8

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OpenAI’s GPT store might not have killed the company—but it could still threaten AI startups

In the days and weeks before Sam Altman was unceremoniously fired from OpenAI—then reinstated over the course of a long, confusing weekend—the...

04.12.2023 10

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Meta’s new legal strategy: calling the FTC’s actions unconstitutional

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been behind some of the most eye-watering fines and censures of big tech companies in the last few years. But...

01.12.2023 40

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A Bitcoin transaction uses as much water as a backyard swimming pool, according to new research

It was meant to revolutionize finance, and free us all from the tyranny of centralized control of our banking. But it turns out, Bitcoin just might...

29.11.2023 2

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OpenAI nearly blew up their $80 billion company. But was the issue they were reportedly arguing over really the right issue?

On Tuesday night, OpenAI announced that it had reached an agreement in principle for cofounder and recently ousted CEO Sam Altman to return to the...

22.11.2023 2

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Stability AI’s high-profile resignation got lost in the OpenAI chaos

Much has changed in the AI world in the last week. But as turmoil rages over the chaos at OpenAI, another major moment went comparatively overlooked...

21.11.2023 5

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New OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to the future of the AI giant

One of the most tumultuous four-day spans in Silicon Valley history has finally concluded (for now at least), and in the end we’re left with massive...

20.11.2023 8

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Why disinformation experts say the Israel-Hamas war is a nightmare to investigate

The Israel-Hamas conflict has been a minefield of confusing counter-arguments and controversies—and an information environment that experts...

16.11.2023 10

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Wikipedia is more likely to cover events in richer countries than poorer ones, new research finds

Wikipedia is often touted as the world’s encyclopedia. But how much of your part of the globe is represented on the website depends on where you...

09.11.2023 3

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Elon Musk’s selling point for ChatGPT competitor Grok may be its fatal flaw, experts say

Just four months after launching xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company has its first product. Grok was launched in beta overnight, with Musk promising a...

07.11.2023 10

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Civil society groups issue a surprise open letter to the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit

The U.K.’s landmark AI Safety Summit, a conclave of around 120 representatives from leading AI companies, academics, and civil society...

01.11.2023 10

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Britain’s big AI safety summit will be a waste of time, experts say

Eighty years ago, at Bletchley Park, a country house 50 miles outside of central London, mathematician Alan Turing and a team of experts cracked the...

31.10.2023 5

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The Twitter rivals are barely making a dent in Elon Musk’s business

When Elon Musk began to transform Twitter into X, a slew of people who had either once worked for the platform or were simply ardent users launched...

27.10.2023 5

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Awareness of deepfakes can make people more suspicious about real videos, a study finds

Raising awareness around the risks of AI-powered deepfake content has become a prime concern for those worried about election integrity and mis- and...

26.10.2023 7

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‘Ruthless and clumsy’: Twitter alumni give Elon Musk low marks on his first year

This week marks one year since Elon Musk strutted into Twitter’s San Francisco offices carrying an actual kitchen sink, grinning from ear to ear as...

23.10.2023 3

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Cyberattacks linked to Israel-Hamas war are soaring

A new study published by academics at the U.K.’s University of Cambridge details just how online vigilantism has played out since Hamas militants...

20.10.2023 10

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The Israel-Hamas war shows how bad X has gotten at handling breaking news

10.10.2023 2

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My quest to find out why my inbox was getting flooded with PR spam

09.10.2023 2

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AI image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion have a representation problem

The United States accounts for less than 5% of the world’s population. English is spoken by just 17% of the globe. Yet type common words like...

05.10.2023 20

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Elon Musk’s X is ignoring its own ad policies, a new study finds

28.09.2023 2

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Google was accidentally leaking its Bard AI chats into public search results

AI-powered chatbots are designed to be the always-available advisors that will power the next era of productivity. But they have a privacy...

27.09.2023 2

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This is how AI can help find missing children

When a child goes missing in the United States, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is often among the first to hear about...

18.09.2023 3

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Sen. Chuck Schumer’s summit is trying to solve AI’s biggest issues with the wrong guest list

A number of key figures in the AI industry are gathering in Washington today as part of Senator Chuck Schumer’s inaugural AI Insight Forum to hold...

13.09.2023 7

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9 new revelations about Elon Musk from Walter Isaacson’s biography

It’s been one of the longest-trailed and most highly anticipated non-fiction books of the year. For weeks, excerpts from Walter Isaacson’s...

12.09.2023 7

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Companies that use AI to help you cheat at school are thriving on TikTok and Meta

This is the first full academic year where students have access to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT. While students around the world may be tempted to...

12.09.2023 30

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