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Mark Zuckerberg’s Awkward Pivot to AI Optimism
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images For what feels like a long time now, the big AI companies have been talking about how future…
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X Really Is Pulling Users to the Right
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment…
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Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the Backlash
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of…
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It’s the First Real Crypto Crash
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Around Election Day, 2024, the price of bitcoin started a long, steep climb. Already priced near its all-time…
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Inside the AI Bubble
[ad_1] Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings. It…
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The Global Internet Is Coming Apart
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Graphic: MAX/Apple The early rise of the internet is usually told as an extension of globalization. New networking technology made instantaneous…
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Why Is Amazon Watching Us?
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Amazon What kind of company is Amazon? It’s a question with a lot of reasonable answers: It’s a peerless e-commerce…
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Wikipedia Is Getting Pretty Worried About AI
[ad_1] Over at the official blog of the Wikipedia community, Marshall Miller untangled a recent mystery. “Around May 2025, we began observing unusually high…
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Get Ready to See Yourself in Ads
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Glance One of the main promises of online advertising is targeting. Tracking browsing habits helped early digital advertisers slice up…
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Users Have One Big Problem with Sora
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer OpenAI’s Sora, the TikTok-like video generator app, was an instant hit, shooting to the top of the download charts and hitting…
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Sam Altman Is Trying to Manifest a New Nvidia
[ad_1] Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Nvidia has only attained household-name status recently, but it’s the opposite of an overnight success. For decades, the…
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Sora and the Sloppy Future of AI
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Sora Last week, Meta’s newly appointed chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who co-founded the AI data-collection and annotation firm Scale.ai,…
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AI’s Go-for-Broke Regulation Strategy
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images In the AI world, everyone always seems to be going for broke. It’s AGI or bust — or…
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Sam Altman’s Plan to Turn ChatGPT Into a Feed
[ad_1] This week, Sam Altman announced his “favorite feature of ChatGPT so far.” It’s called Pulse, and according Altman, it “works for you overnight”…
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The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images You can divide the recent history of LLM data scraping into a few phases. There was for years…
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ChatGPT Users Want Help With Homework. They’re Also Very Horny.
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: WildChat/The Allen Institute for AI A recent research paper sounded an alarm for AI developers: Training data is drying up.…