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The cursed pattern continues: following a baffling and error-ridden turn to AI content, the once-acclaimed business publication Quartz has been sold off and its editorial team almost entirely axed — making…
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A plan to separate TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, was put on hold after China signaled that it would not approve the deal. This came shortly…
A South Korean website called GenNomis went offline this week after a researcher made a particularly alarming discovery: tens of thousands of AI-generated pornographic images created by its software, Nudify.…
It’s a fact of life that automation can make us lazier. Usually, the tradeoffs are worth it. But it feels more pernicious with AI Chatbots, which offer to basically automate…
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a well-loved event that encouraged people to write a novel in 30 days, is officially shutting down after over two decades. The organization announced in…
A quarter century after its inception — and less than a year after its “full-throated” defense of artificial intelligence in writing — the nonprofit behind the annual National Novel Writing…
AI hyperscaler CoreWeave’s initial public offering was meant to serve as a litmus test for the industry. The firm went public on the stock market last week, becoming the first all-AI…
Right after OpenAI debuted its new GPT-4o image generation capabilities, tech bros flooded the internet with AI-made cartoons and memes imitating the style of the iconic Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.…
Scientific Management, sometimes called “Taylorism” after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could…
Last February, Disney employee Matthew Van Andel downloaded what seemed like a helpful AI tool from the developer site GitHub. Little did he know that the decision would totally upend…