Category Archives: Business

Closing the city’s seaport will send shockwaves across global shipping. Supersized container ships pose a growing risk to bridges and other  infrastructure when things go wrong.

Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2.

A jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.”

Here’s Elie Hassenfeld, your high school EA crush. As effective altruism spirals into self-doubt, the idealist quant is still at it, helping Silicon Valley richies give away hundreds of millions each year.

Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.

New US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch.

CrowdTangle helps researchers track disinformation, but Meta will close it down before the US election. The tool’s cofounder, Brandon Silverman, says it’s time to force companies to share data.

The probes are the first to take place under Europe’s landmark Digital Markets Act—and add to Apple’s mounting antitrust woes.

WIRED reporting uncovered a site that “nudifies” photos for a fee—and posts a feed appearing to show user uploads. They included photos of young girls and images seemingly taken of strangers.

A new study suggests that sudden jumps in LLMs’ abilities are neither surprising nor unpredictable, but are actually the consequence of how we measure ability in AI.