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Feb 28, 2023 • 11min
Ukraine’s War Brings Autonomous Weapons to the Front Lines
Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.
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Feb 27, 2023 • 7min
Amazon Has a Donkey Meat Problem
The online retailer sells products meant for human consumption that contain donkey meat. A new lawsuit claims that’s illegal in California.
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Feb 24, 2023 • 8min
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots
The company recently laid off thousands of human workers and is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables.
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Feb 23, 2023 • 8min
Generative AI Is Coming For the Lawyers
Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. What could go wrong?
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Feb 22, 2023 • 7min
One Startup’s Plan to Help Africa Lure Back Its AI Talent
Lelapa is building a research lab to serve African businesses and nonprofits, with the hope that locally grown algorithms can better serve communities.
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Feb 21, 2023 • 7min
Germany Raises Red Flags About Palantir’s Big Data Dragnet
A court has issued strict limits on how police can pull innocent bystanders into big data investigations.
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Feb 20, 2023 • 11min
The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk
Fearing the company’s new management, researchers frantically completed studies on misinformation and algorithmic bias, then published them online.
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Feb 17, 2023 • 9min
Audiobook Narrators Fear Spotify Used Their Voices to Train AI
After a backlash, Spotify has removed a clause that allowed Apple to train machine learning models on some audiobook files.
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Feb 16, 2023 • 6min
The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
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Feb 15, 2023 • 8min
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk’s Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
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