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Crypto FOMO Is Back. So Are the Scams
After cryptocurrency prices spiked, scammers have flooded the market with fake tokens that promise investors great...
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Tech Leaders Once Cried for AI Regulation. Now the Message Is ‘Slow Down’
Any dreams of a sweeping AI bill out of Congress are basically a hallucination.
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No One Actually Knows How AI Will Affect Jobs
Some businesses are replacing people with AI; others are augmenting their workforce or hiring new workers....
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Eric Schmidt Warned Against China’s AI Industry. Emails Show He Also Sought Connections to It
Transparency advocates say that Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents...
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Sarcophagus Is a Dead Man’s Switch for Your Crypto Wallet
By combining a century-old idea with cryptocurrency tech, Sarcophagus aims to create a foolproof way to...
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Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired
The app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic, the parent company...
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Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers...
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Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism
In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and...
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How I Became a Python Programmer—and Fell Out of Love With the Machine
When I started coding, I was suspicious of all the abstractions. Then I discovered the Django...
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The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation’s history for the first time, the Internet...
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Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Found Liable for Multibillion-Dollar Fraud
When Do Kwon’s crypto empire fell to pieces, tens of billions of dollars were wiped out....
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This AI Startup Wants You to Talk to Houses, Cars, and Factories
Archetype builds AI models that act as a translation layer between humans and complex sensors, using...
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A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company...
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To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
OpenAI and other AI leaders think new leaps in machine intelligence will require new forms of...
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OpenAI’s GPT Store Is Triggering Copyright Complaints
A publisher says some chatbots in OpenAI's GPT Store were created using its copyrighted textbooks. OpenAI...
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Apple Store Employees Say Coworkers Were Disciplined for Supporting Palestinians
A protest is planned Saturday at a Chicago Apple store where workers say managers disciplined staff—and...
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He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
Faruk Özer just started a 11,196-year prison sentence. Did he almost get away with the biggest...
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TikTok Shop’s Era of Super Subsidies Is Ending
The app’s shopping features won over sellers and shoppers by offering deals that can seem too...
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Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law
Companies will no longer be allowed to use software checks to verify replacement parts in a...
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Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon
Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand...
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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars.
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The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms...
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The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is About to Get Even Messier
Closing the city’s seaport will send shockwaves across global shipping. Supersize container ships pose a growing...
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Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama...