[Sketchiest Guy in the World Voice] Hey kid, wanna see the X algorithm? It’s right over here. No really, Elon Musk appears to be partly making good on…
Read more Elon Musk Makes Part of X Algorithm Open Source, Says It ‘Sucks’When DoorDash delivery driver Livie Rose Henderson posted a video alleging that one of her customers sexually assaulted her in October, it set off a firestorm of reactions.…
Read more The Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black CreatorsThe Department of Justice and the real estate platform RealPage just made a deal, and since it doesn’t completely dismantle RealPage, it’s not going to be seen as…
Read more Settlement Reached That Limits Your Landlord’s Favorite Alleged Rent-Fixing SoftwareThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set…
Read more Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up PricesA new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against…
Read more The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes, no one’s going to think of these issues,” says Kathleen…
Read more When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a FaceThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example,…
Read more A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest PathsEver since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open…
Read more This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek MomentRegulation of dark patterns has been proposed and is being discussed in both the US and Europe. De Freitas says regulators also should look at whether AI tools…
Read more Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying GoodbyeOpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company…
Read more OpenAI’s Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin LineThe publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its…
Read more USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a ChatbotA billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic…
Read more I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do NowLatam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), aims to…
Read more Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin AmericaMittelsteadt adds that Trump could punish companies in a variety of ways. He cites, for example, the way the Trump government canceled a major federal contract with Amazon…
Read more Elon Musk’s Criticism of ‘Woke AI’ Suggests ChatGPT Could Be a Trump Administration TargetSome Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture publication Fanfare, says he doesn’t have to fend…
Read more AI Slop Is Flooding MediumA few years ago I wrote about how, when planning my wedding, I’d signaled to the Pinterest app that I was interested in hairstyles and tablescapes, and I…
Read more Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?When investors poured $6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along…
Read more The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an OpeningYou hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without…
Read more Hacking Generative AI for Fun and ProfitChinese regulators likely learned from the EU AI Act, says Jeffrey Ding, an assistant professor of Political Science at George Washington University. “Chinese policymakers and scholars have said…
Read more China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks HappenA group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on…
Read more Content Creators in the Adult Industry Want a Say in AI Rules
