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Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Plan to Make Mobile Voting Happen
[ad_1] Joe Kiniry, a security expert specializing in elections, was attending an annual conference on voting technology in Washington, DC, when a woman approached…
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The Man Who Invented AGI
[ad_1] Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw…
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Inside the Messy, Accidental Kryptos Reveal
[ad_1] Jim Sanborn couldn’t believe it. He was weeks away from auctioning off the answer to Kryptos, the sculpture he created for the CIA…
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Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
[ad_1] I recently vacationed in Italy. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The…
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Sam Altman Says the GPT-5 Haters Got It All Wrong
[ad_1] OpenAI’s August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model…
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Broadcast TV Is a ‘Melting Ice Cube.’ Kimmel Just Turned Up the Heat
[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC this week. Sort of. About a quarter of ABC’s usual audience couldn’t see the talk show host this…
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YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
[ad_1] Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video.…
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I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
[ad_1] A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard…
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The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
[ad_1] The subtitle of the doom bible to be published by AI extinction prophets Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares later this month is “Why…