Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data
Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to content used to train chatbots. Now...
The AI Culture Wars Are Just Getting Started
Google was forced to turn off the image-generation capabilities of its latest AI model, Gemini, last week after complaints that it defaulted to depicting women and...
The White House Warns Cars Made in China Could Unleash Chaos on US Highways
The US government has launched an investigation into the national security risks posed by foreign-made vehicles with internet connectivity—especially those made in China. At a briefing...
Amazon Just Got Banned From the EU Parliament
Amazon has become the second company ever to have its lobbyists banned from the European Parliament, amid accusations that the company does not take the institution...
The US Supreme Court Holds the Future of the Internet in Its Hands
The US Supreme Court seems torn over whether to trigger a radical transformation of the internet. The nation’s highest court heard arguments Monday over state laws...
How a Small Iowa Newspaper’s Website Became an AI-Generated Clickbait Factory
In his spare time, Tony Eastin likes to dabble in the stock market. One day last year, he Googled a pharmaceutical company that seemed like a...
He Helped Expose Wirecard’s Fraud. Now His Startup Tries to Make Whistleblowing Safer
In September 2017, Singapore-based lawyer Pav Gill took a job at Wirecard, a high-flying German payments business worth tens of billions of euros. Not long after...
Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying
Reddit didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment for this story. Unwanted Offer Reddit’s investment offer to users is known as the Directed Share Program....
Bitcoin Royalty Descends on the Satoshi Nakamoto Trial
Bitcoin was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, an enigmatic figure about whom almost nothing is known. Fifteen years ago, Satoshi brought the idea of an electronic cash...
My Quest to Fix a Crashing Roku App Provides a Warning About AI
Two words in this statement popped out to me like a flying dinosaur in a mixed-reality headset: when possible. When I flagged this in a subsequent...