The Twitter Whistleblower Plays Right Into Elon Musk’s Hands
“This throws gasoline into the fire around the bot issue with Musk and Twitter,” says Dan Ives, managing director and senior equity analyst at Wedbush Securities....
Babylon Disrupted the UK’s Health System. Then It Left
Rideout says about 7,000 patients had signed up to the RWT service. “It’s just not generating sufficient funds for us to be able to justify the...
Turns Out, You Own Nothing
So, I think consumers rightly and reasonably have become more cynical and more skeptical of a lot of these sorts of offerings. And I think that’s...
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...