Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

January 25, 2024 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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13 min
January 24, 2024 Comcast’s Xfinity Stores Your Sensitive Data. You Can Kind of Opt Out
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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7 min
January 23, 2024 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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10 min
January 22, 2024 An AI Executive Turns AI Crusader to Stand Up for Artists
Ed Newton-Rex quit his job at startup Stability AI over ethical concerns about its collection of training data. His nonprofit Fairly Trained aims to deter startups from scraping the web.
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8 min
January 19, 2024 Apple Turned Its Epic Defeat Into Another App Store Victory
Despite expensive legal battles and regulatory pressure, Apple’s and Google’s mobile app stores are mostly unchanged. This week, Apple introduced a new fee on developers to protect its business.
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10 min
January 18, 2024 Google Search Is a Mess. Can Mobile AI Make It Better?
Two new enhancements coming to Google’s search tools on phones use machine intelligence to make the search experience more efficient.
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9 min
January 17, 2024 How to Launch a Custom Chatbot on OpenAI’s GPT Store
You can now publish a bespoke version of ChatGPT that you’ve trained yourself. The marketplace for these custom GPTs is open to the public and works in a way that’s similar to Apple’s App Store.
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8 min
January 16, 2024 A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points and undermined local elections in Moldova, according to new research.
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12 min
January 15, 2024 Why Crypto Idealogues Won’t Touch Bitcoin ETFs
The arrival of spot bitcoin ETFs in the US offers easy access to the masses. Purists will steer clear.
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9 min
January 12, 2024 Toyota's Robots Are Learning to Do Housework—By Copying Humans
Carmaker Toyota is developing robots capable of learning to do household chores by observing how humans take on the tasks. The project is an example of robotics getting a boost from generative AI.
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9 min

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