Dall-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See
Upon release of GPT-2 in February 2019, OpenAI adopted a staggered approach to the release of the largest form of the model on the claim that...
The Crypto Industry Is Getting Too Honest
There’s a commercial for the cryptocurrency-trading platform FTX that has been airing throughout the NBA playoffs. It features superstar Steph Curry going through a goofy version...
Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got there in just five. The fast-growing...
Shanghai Is Rewriting Chinese Censorship Amid Lockdown
After the “Voices of April” video was blocked, users re-uploaded it in ways they hoped would evade the censors’ detection. The video was posted upside down,...
Inside Shein’s Sudden Rise: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
I had come to watch Kelly film a haul. She skipped off to the living room to dance around—a warm-up—then led me upstairs to the carpeted...
Don’t Call Tony Fadell an Asshole—He Prefers ‘Mission Driven’
That touches on another distinction you make, between what you call a “caring CEO” and a micromanager. Where do you draw the line? You micromanage on...
Amazon Labor Union Loses Ground in Staten Island Push
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have voted against unionizing, marking the first loss for the fledgling, worker-led Amazon Labor Union (ALU). When the...
Everything’s a WeWork Now
The SaksWorks coworking space in Greenwich, Connecticut, tucked inside what was once a Saks Fifth Avenue department store, feels like a well-appointed library where no one...
To Win the Next War, the Pentagon Needs Nerds
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the US Department of Defense turned to a team of machine learning and artificial intelligence experts to make sense of an avalanche...
How Elon Musk Upstaged Barack Obama’s Social Media Manifesto
Hi, everyone. Plaintext is enacting a poison pill to prevent Elon Musk from taking over. But, like Twitter, $44 billion might change our minds. The Plain...