Artificial Intelligence
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Twitch Adds Setting Letting Users Opt Out of AI Training Amid User Backlash
AI companies have already scraped much of the public internet to train their models. Now Amazon is turning to Twitch streamers. Twitch…
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Microsoft Ups Investment in Polluting AI, but Cuts Down Carbon Removal by 80%
Microsoft’s carbon footprint is swelling. A BloombergNEF report from Thursday found that the tech giant bought about 80% fewer carbon removal credits…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup
In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side…
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An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?
Most of us by now have become more or less desensitized to a steady drip of AI slop: AI-generated influencers, musicians racking…
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Anthropic’s Claude Will Start Adding Invisible Watermarks to AI-Generated Text
Students and even some professionals trying to pass off AI-generated work as their own may soon have a harder time getting away…
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OpenAI’s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced
OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August. Before…
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‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm
Tech companies are spending many billions of dollars on massive data center projects across the country amid the ongoing AI boom, but…
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House Democrats Want Tech CEOs to Testify Under Oath Following Recent AI Hacks
Multiple AI systems in recent weeks have hacked into third-party organizations during what were supposed to be routine internal tests, revving up…
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Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing)
Savers Value Village, the national chain of thrift stores that sells secondhand merchandise, announced this week that it’s using AI to help…
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Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing
For towns and cities across the country looking for ways to tell data center developers that their projects aren’t welcome in their…





