Category Archives: Business

This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You

Users of the new dating app Volar train a chatbot to go on virtual first dates for them with the bots of potential matches.  We tested it out.

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Elon Musk Says a Cheaper Tesla Model Is Coming in 2025 as Chinese Competition Intensifies

A low-cost model of Tesla will launch in 2024, CEO Elon Musk told investors. It could help the EV maker compete with BYD and other surging Chinese automakers.

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OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public

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.

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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them

Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like The New York Times now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

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Chinese Startup 01.AI Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

Kai-Fu Lee, an AI expert and prominent investor who helped Google and Microsoft get established in China, says his new startup 01.AI will create the first “killer apps” of generative AI.

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Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules

The pioneering PC revolutionized how people interact with computers. As the Mac enters its fifth decade, Apple says it will continue to evolve.

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How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

One of America’s largest internet providers may collect data about your political beliefs, race, and sexual orientation to serve personalized ads.

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The One Part of Apple Vision Pro That Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Apple’s latest series of Vision Pro demos carefully obscures one important hardware feature.

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Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click

Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” cable lobby says.

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ChatGPT’s Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

With AI projects booming and the physical limits of silicon looming, some startups are challenging Nvidia’s dominance and say it’s time to reinvent the computer chip entirely.

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