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Chris Stokel-WalkerThe Daily Beast |
Investor interest in generative AI startups remains high, with more than $21 billion plowed into companies in the first nine months of this year,...
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...
In the days and weeks before Sam Altman was unceremoniously fired from OpenAI—then reinstated over the course of a long, confusing weekend—the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Israel-Hamas conflict has been a minefield of confusing counter-arguments and controversies—and an information environment that experts...
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...
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...
The U.K.’s landmark AI Safety Summit, a conclave of around 120 representatives from leading AI companies, academics, and civil society...
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...
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...
Raising awareness around the risks of AI-powered deepfake content has become a prime concern for those worried about election integrity and mis- and...
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...
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...
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...
AI-powered chatbots are designed to be the always-available advisors that will power the next era of productivity. But they have a privacy...
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...
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...
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...
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...