artificial intelligence

Three Mile Island nuclear turning point as Big Tech influence grows

Three Mile Island nuclear turning point as Big Tech influence grows

Albert Wagner

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30, 2024. Danielle DeVries | CNBC ...

Elon Musk’s xAI raising up to  billion to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips for Memphis data center

Elon Musk’s xAI raising up to $6 billion to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips for Memphis data center

John Ray

Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on ...

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

OpenAI Scored a Legal Win Over Progressive Publishers—but the Fight’s Not Finished

Mickey Vernon

Topic, who also represents The Intercept in a similar DMCA case against OpenAI, as well as the nonprofit newsroom the ...

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

Mickey Vernon

Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I ...

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

Mickey Vernon

I appreciate that. We own this mistake. So your name is Nazir Ali, but when you say “we”— We are ...

AI chatbots aren’t reliable for voting questions: Government officials

AI chatbots aren’t reliable for voting questions: Government officials

Ev Richard

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General in New ...

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Mickey Vernon

Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require ...

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Mickey Vernon

Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture ...

AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals reportedly invents things no one ever said – National

AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals reportedly invents things no one ever said – National

Craig Fedirighi

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But ...

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Mickey Vernon

Google added that part of the problem it faces in generating AI Overviews is that, for some very specific queries, ...

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