Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

July 01, 2024 Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand
WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

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9 min
June 28, 2024 Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
Hany Farid, a leading expert on image and video manipulation, says that detecting deepfakes will take more than AI alone.

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9 min
June 27, 2024 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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12 min
June 26, 2024 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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11 min
June 25, 2024 The Eternal Truth of Markdown
An exegesis of the most ubiquitous piece of code on the web.

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10 min
June 24, 2024 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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11 min
June 21, 2024 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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8 min
June 20, 2024 Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't Convinced
After a user backlash, Adobe has been forced to clarify how it will use creators’ work. But can it be trusted?

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8 min
June 19, 2024 Airbnb's Olympics Push Could Help it Win Over Paris
Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city.

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10 min
June 18, 2024 Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia
In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media.

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8 min

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