Tag Archives: Wired

The US Is Being Flooded by Chinese Vapes

The US government vowed to crack down on the sale of illegal nicotine vapes. They only got cheaper, fancier, and more potent.

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US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

The Recording Industry Association of America and record labels allege that the leading AI music generators trained on their artists’ work without permission.

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EU says Apple’s App Store Is in Breach of Rules

Apple has been warned that its App Store is in breach of EU rules, and has backtracked on plans to roll out AI tech in Europe over regulatory concerns.

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The Eternal Truth of Markdown

An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web.

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My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now

Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity.

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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.

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We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary.

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Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneurs and politicians say local champions are needed to prevent a cultural flattening.

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Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced

Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users’ content will be treated, after a backlash earlier this month from artists who believed their work will be used to train AI.

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STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

Students and young workers from over 120 universities have pledged to refuse work at Google and Amazon until the Israeli contract is dropped.

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