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2:58

Whistleblowers accuse OpenAI of ‘illegally...

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2024/07/16

Whistleblowers have accused OpenAI of placing illegal restrictions on how employees can communicate with government regulators, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. Lawyers representing anonymous whistleblowers sent the letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:51

Amazon AI chatbot Rufus is now live for all U.S....

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2024/07/15

Amazon’s AI-powered shopping assistant, named “Rufus,” is now live for all U.S. customers in the Amazon mobile app, the retailer announced on Friday. The assistant, which lives on the bottom right of the app’s main navigation bar, is designed to offer customers help with finding products, performing product comparisons, and getting recommendations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:23

Archer’s vision of an air taxi network could benefit...

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2024/07/15

Archer Aviation and Southwest Airlines are teaming up to figure out what it will take to build out a network of electric air taxis at California airports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:19

FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of...

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2024/07/12

Dark patterns refer to a range of design techniques that can subtly encourage users to take some sort of action or put their privacy at risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:27

More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as...

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2024/07/12

As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-military officials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:08

Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to...

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2024/07/11

Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. Anthropic released several new features on Tuesday to help developers create more useful applications with the startup’s language model, Claude, according to a company blog post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:12

Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map...

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2024/07/11

Fast food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without power for days as Houston anticipates a heat wave, with temperatures climbing into the mid-90s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:57

Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in...

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2024/07/10

The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from the fruits of that labor. A new project puts the lived experiences data workers around the world in the spotlight, showing firsthand the costs and opportunities of tech work abroad.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:38

Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps

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2024/07/10

Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets users create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots. Previews allows Poe users to build data visualizations, games and even drum machines Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:37

YouTube and LinkedIn have games now, and here’s how...

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2024/07/09

Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and supported devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:57

Waymo robotaxi pulled over by Phoenix police after...

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2024/07/09

A police officer pulled over a self-driving Waymo vehicle in Phoenix after it ran a red light and pulled into a lane of oncoming traffic, according to dispatch records. The incident took place on June 19, but local media including Arizona Republic released bodycam footage of the traffic stop this week, showing the vehicle weaving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:10

Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and MySpace for Gen Z,...

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2024/07/08

Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it launches out of invite-only mode Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:12

Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a...

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2024/07/08

Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to buy something from somebody, I grill them about the marketplace, because I’m really curious about their experience,” Solomon, a co-founder of Fizz, told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:28

Epic Games calls out Apple for rejecting its Games...

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2024/07/05

Fortnite maker Epic Games has hit a stumbling block in its plans to bring the company’s alternative app store, the Epic Games Store, to the EU. As now permitted by the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Epic Games announced earlier this year it planned to bring both the digital storefront and its flagship game, Fortnite.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:56

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it...

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2024/07/05

Code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they're ranked.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:40

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists...

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2024/07/04

Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is today rolling out a new feature meant to make the app more appealing to those who use it to keep up with news and information from writers and journalistsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:45

Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s...

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2024/07/04

Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd care to say." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:40

Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to...

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2024/07/03

Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature that was said to be ripping off the designs of Apple’s own Weather app. The problem was first spotted by Andy Allen, the founder of NotBoring Software, which makes a suite of apps that includes a popular, skinnable Weather appLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:02

Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive...

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2024/07/03

Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:28

MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries

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2024/07/02

RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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