AI
How AI changed the bargain between platforms and users
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating
AI
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating
OpenAI
The company has new strategies for shoring up our shared sense of reality. Will they matter in the election?
AI
From chatbots to clinical trials, digital twins are suggesting at least one good answer to the question of what generative AI is for
Supreme Court
After the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay this week, 20 years of court rulings may be about to go out the window
AI
Is it smarter to take the deal they can get — or fight it out in court?
Oversight Board
To grow again, it will have to deliver on its mission
TikTok
How it happened, ByteDance’s response, and what happens next
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