Category Archives: Business

Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out

The idea that sprinkling rock dust on farmland can soak up atmospheric carbon will be tested at large scale thanks to a $57 million purchase from corporations including Stripe and Alphabet.

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The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

The Authors Guild and other artists’ groups say that it’s unfair to train AI algorithms on their work without permission. Tech companies generally argue that it counts as “fair use.”

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OpenAI Cofounder Reid Hoffman Gives Sam Altman a Vote of Confidence

LinkedIn and OpenAI cofounder Reid Hoffman says he’s glad Sam Altman is leading the AI company again. Hoffman and other AI experts discussed the perils and potential of AI at a WIRED event Tuesday.

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How to Use Google’s Gemini AI Right Now in Its Bard Chatbot

You can try out Gemini, Google’s rival to ChatGPT, for free. It’s super easy to access right inside Bard.

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The Binance Crackdown Will Be an ‘Unprecedented’ Bonanza for Crypto Surveillance

Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.”

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Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

Google says Gemini, launching today inside the Bard chatbot, is its “most capable” AI model ever. It was trained on video, images, and audio as well as text.

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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Says Gemini Is a New Breed of AI

Google’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.

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Women Buy More Cars, So Why Are the Designs So Macho?

It’s not just Elon Musk’s Cybertruck. Car design is largely geared toward men, even though women buy more than 60 percent of all new cars sold in the US. EVs are a chance to right that wrong.

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How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

OpenAI designed its governance structure to protect humanity—and it imploded. The company could take pointers from Mozilla and other projects combining lofty goals with for-profit ventures.

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The Pilots Delivering Your Amazon Packages Are Ready to Strike

Pilots for Amazon’s largest air freight provider voted to strike, complaining of low pay and high turnover. If a strike happens in the new year, Amazon deliveries could be impacted.

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