Raising Startup Funding Used to Be Easy—Not Anymore
In 2021, when Roshan Patel was raising his startup Walnut’s first round of funding, his email inbox overflowed with interest from investors. Venture capitalists loved his...
Algorithms Can Now Mimic Any Artist. Some Artists Hate It
In an email, Stålenhag says that he objects to the way Guadamuz framed his stunt, but accepts his apology. The artist doesn’t view the AI images...
Ethereum’s ‘Merge’ Is a Big Deal for Crypto—and the Planet
Cryptocurrencies are often criticized for being bad for the planet. Every year, bitcoin mining consumes more energy than Belgium, according to the University of Cambridge’s Bitcoin...
How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and cannot be fixed through technical means...
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Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web
Late last week, Google research scientist Fei Xia sat in the center of a bright, open-plan kitchen and typed a command into a laptop connected to...
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Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped off by the Pegasus Project, an...
Wikipedia Articles Sway Some Legal Judgments
In 2005, the Irish Supreme Court ruled in favor of a woman who sued a landowner for compensation in 1997 after she lost her footing while...
SEC charges 11 people over ‘textbook’ $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme
It’s a day of the week ending in the letter “y,” which inevitably means there’s news of another messy saga in the cryptocurrency world. The Securities...
How Siestas Might Help Europe Survive Deadly Heat Waves
For years, there have been concerns in Spain that this is not the best way to do business. In 2016, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tried to...
Microsoft negs Activision Blizzard to push through $68.7 billion acquisition
Microsoft is taking an interesting approach to secure regulatory approval for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In a recent filing spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, the...