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Beloved alt-weeklies like the Village Voice have started publishing what appears to be AI-generated clickbait about OnlyFans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

While a fight over betting on US elections plays out in court, the tech-savvy are gambling hundreds of millions of dollars on cryptocurrencies inspired by politicians. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company behind ChatGPT is expanding into search, and leaning heavily on its relationships with publishers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Phones are supported well beyond their average ownership lifetime. In stark contrast, automakers are struggling to work out how long their “smartphones on wheels” can be kept on the road. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

System administrators and their teams sprang into action last Friday and worked tirelessly to get their companies back online amid one of the worst digital blackouts ever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tech companies—including OpenAI—are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The tech mogul cited California’s new transgender rights law as “the final straw” for moving out of the state. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

By order of a UK judge, Craig Wright can no longer claim he is the creator of bitcoin and now faces the prospect of criminal charges. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn’t changed much. And don’t ask it to license its archive to AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sam Altman is touting AI’s ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Reports of intimate images and video posted online without consent are growing, and deepfakes add a horrifying new dimension to the problem. Google insiders say they’ve struggled to get executives to act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As fears of a pandemic mount, the biotech company’s mRNA vaccine trial is set to release Phase 1/2 results later this year, with a larger Phase 3 trial expected to begin in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After a user backlash, Adobe has been forced to clarify how it will use creators’ work. But can it be trusted? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple is eager to show us that its approach to artificial intelligence is safer, better, and more useful than the competition. Maybe that's just a hallucination, but it's working. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

LinkedIn’s new generative AI features include chatbots based on popular career coaches and tools to rewrite résumés and cover letters. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tesla shareholders will decide whether to back Elon Musk’s leadership—and unprecedented 11-figure bonus—in a pivotal moment for the carmaker. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Influencer Keith Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, became a Pied Piper for amateur stock traders after sparking a historic GameStop short squeeze. But his next move could land him in big trouble. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The medical community's leading authority on traumatic brain injuries wants to make contact sports—which she loves—safer for everyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.Extreme heat and droughts are cutting into hop plants’ yields and making them less bitter. But scientists and farmers are brewing up clever solutions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Biotech giant Bayer plans to distribute mustard greens that have been genetically altered to make them less bitter to grocery stores across the country. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices