This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data
So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing...
Inside Two Years of Turmoil at Big Tech’s Anti-Terrorism Group
The four tech giants have presided over the consortium since they announced it in 2016, when Western governments were berating them for allowing Islamic State to...
No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems
We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. He has...
The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by...
China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen
Chinese 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...
Shein Workers Have Had It—and They’re Going Public
Under Chinese law, only 10 percent of a company’s staff is supposed to be made up of labor dispatch workers. But Zhang says the regulations are...
Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
At the start of September, Nour was having an ordinary evening at home in Beirut—eating pumpkin seeds and watching Netflix—when the SMS hit her device like...
Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them
In May 2023, Air India launched safety management software called Coruson, as well as BAM (Boeing Alertness Model), a fatigue-mitigation tool integrated into its rostering system,...
Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It?
Meta has dominated online social connections for the past 20 years, but it missed out on making the smartphones that primarily delivered those connections. Now, in...