Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how people interact with the world
😂 — Karma for rigging a war map, or making money on bets with insider knowledge. — An upside of Time's dumb 2025 choice, I suppose. Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : The arro...
Time names “the Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year and examines AI's effect on the economy, geopolitics, and how people interact with the world
😂 — Karma for rigging a war map, or making money on bets with insider knowledge. — An upside of Time's dumb 2025 choice, I suppose. Scott Horton / @robertscotthorton : The arro...
An MIT study of 54 people: writing SAT essays using ChatGPT had the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google Search or no tools
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT's Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
A look at OpenAI's “Democratic Inputs to AI” grant program, which awarded 10 teams $100K each to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI systems
Billy Perrigo / TIME : X: @time , @lopezunwired , and @billyperrigo LinkedIn: Teddy Lee and Laura MacCleery X: @time : The company wants to align its AI to “human values.” Is that...
At the State of the Union, Biden called for Congress to strengthen data privacy protections and antitrust enforcement to stop Big Tech from self-preferencing
President Joe Biden threw his support behind tougher rules regulating Silicon Valley during his Second State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more
Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Tweets: @glenngabe , @billyperrigo , @paulroetzer , @time , @eileentso , @jeffnesbit , @sarth...
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more
As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.
A profile of Vitalik Buterin, who says he decided “to try to be more risk-taking and less neutral” to shape Ethereum with “lots of good crazy and bad crazy”
In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air …
TSMC chairman Mark Liu on US-China tensions, the push for semiconductor localization in the US, which he says will not improve supply chain resilience, and more
On the northwest coast of Taiwan, nestled between mudflats teeming with fiddler crabs and sweet-scented persimmon orchards … Tweets: @realnickhendo , @johnhering , @trengriffin , @...
Small developers say the Epic ruling could lead to a windfall but some researchers say it is unclear if consumers will actually use alternative payment methods
After a judge opened up a way to avoid Apple's commission on their sales, companies big and small are seeing dollar signs.
Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple, ruling that Apple can't prohibit developers from linking to external purchase options in addition to IAP
The order opens up a new avenue for purchases on the iPhone — Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued a permanent injunction …
Antitrust action in Europe and the US is inevitable and Apple should rethink its stance towards regulators, often described as arrogant to inflexible
in service of a greater W on the privacy, security, and trust that are core to its brand. https://time.com/...
Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed
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A deep dive into Signal, whose downloads surged in the US amid BLM protests, as it becomes an app of choice among protesters, dissidents, and journalists
Billy Perrigo / TIME : Tweets: @billyperrigo , @punkt , @time , @nebuer42 , @savukku , and @nnedv Tweets: Billy Perrigo / @billyperrigo : As protests surged around the world this ...