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The US government's antitrust suit argues that Apple's sticky ecosystem keeps hold of customers by penalizing those who leave. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aravind Srinivas grew up in the same city as Google’s CEO and developed an obsession with the company long before launching his own AI search startup.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

OpenAI claimed it's "impossible" to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These AI agents can adapt to games they haven’t played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As Chinese automakers prepare to launch in the US, the White House is investigating whether cars made in China could pose a national security threat.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the lawsuit, Musk claims OpenAI has abandoned its mission to develop AI for the benefit humanity.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google apologized after its Gemini model caused offense by being too “woke.” Expect political fights over AI’s values to worsen as the technology becomes more capable.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In an interview with WIRED, the politician behind the ban hits out at Amazon for being evasive about working conditions in its warehouses.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pav Gill says he suffered retaliation after he raised the alarm about fraud at German payments giant Wirecard. His startup Confide aims to protect future whistleblowers from harm.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Only one of Reddit's two cofounders is named in a new filing that puts the company weeks away from going public. Ohanian and Steve Huffman, now CEO, fell out in 2020.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Before it disappeared on Tuesday, Kimi enabled iPhone owners to stream illegal bootlegs of popular movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

TDCommons is a free space for inventors to lay claim to breakthroughs without having to file a patent. Why is it so off the radar?Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a lengthy cross-examination in the UK High Court, Craig Wright rejected all claims he had forged and manipulated evidence that indicate he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AI fakes are a disinformation menace. But some politicians, executives, and academics see them as a way to extend their reach.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there’s a serious point behind the gag.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google's answer to ChatGPT Plus gives you access to Gemini Advanced, its most powerful chatbot yet.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s dominant cloud platform AWS, says generative AI is valuable but that the excitement around some AI companies is similar to when dotcom darlings were “dramatically overhyped.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A chatbot interface on LinkedIn tries to speed up job searches by offering advice such as an assessment of how well a job opening matches a person's skills.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some AI-generated images posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will in future be labeled as artificial. But only if they are made using tools from companies willing to work with Meta.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The skyrocketing value of cryptocurrency is the center of a disagreement over the FTX bankruptcy.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As interest rates and antitrust pressure climbed in 2023, Alphabet made no major acquisitions for the first time in years. Apple, Amazon, and Meta also curbed dealmaking.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

X CEO Linda Yaccarino told US senators she’s hiring more trust and safety staffers. She didn’t mention that Elon Musk fired most people policing content on the platform when he acquired it in 2022.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A crucial team at Google that reviewed new AI products for compliance with its rules for responsible AI development faces an uncertain future after its leader departed this month.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory policing practices. They're demanding higher standards for federal grants.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In his new book Read Write Own, investor Chris Dixon mounts a defense of blockchain, arguing it can save society from the monopoly power of tech giants.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As the US and other countries ponder how to prevent dangerous uses of AI, some researchers suggest building limitations into crucial chips like GPUs to cap the power of algorithms.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that’s similar to Apple’s App Store.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections in Moldova, according to new research.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices