Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

March 20, 2024 Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules
YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt.
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8 min
March 19, 2024 Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.
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12 min
March 18, 2024 What’s Behind the Bitcoin Price Surge? Vibes, Mostly
The price of bitcoin has climbed to a new all-time high. But assigning the cryptocurrency a value is anything but trivial.
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13 min
March 15, 2024 Forget Chatbots. AI Agents Are the Future
Startups and tech giants are trying to move from chatbots that offer help via text, to AI agents that can get stuff done. Recent demos include an AI coder called Devin and agents that play videogames.
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7 min
March 14, 2024 Google DeepMind’s Latest AI Agent Learned to Play Goat Simulator 3
These AI agents can adapt to games they haven’t played before. Google made them by feeding data on how humans play different video games to a language model like those behind the latest chatbots.
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7 min
March 13, 2024 Elon Musk Gave Himself No Choice but to Open Source His Chatbot Grok
Earlier this month Elon Musk sued OpenAI for keeping its technology secret. Today he promised to give away his own “truth-seeking” chatbot Grok for free.
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8 min
March 12, 2024 Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.
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6 min
March 11, 2024 5 Years After San Francisco Banned Face Recognition, Voters Ask for More Surveillance
On Tuesday the country’s techiest city backed a ballot proposition that tapped into concerns about crime, giving the police more freedom to use drones and other surveillance technology.
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9 min
March 08, 2024 The Fear That Inspired the Creation of OpenAI
Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance.
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8 min
March 07, 2024 The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image Generators
Open source tools allow anyone to make AI art. They have also been used to produce nonconsensual deepfake porn.

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12 min

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