Category Archives: Business

A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It

Researchers found a simple way to make ChatGPT, Bard, and other chatbots misbehave, proving that AI is hard to tame.

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How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024

Generative AI won’t just flood the internet with more lies—it may also create convincing disinformation that’s targeted at groups or even individuals.

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Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks

Dara Khosrowshahi swooped in to tame a beastly work culture and try to make the on-demand giant profitable. Now he’s expanding into trucks and boats, but he still sees Uber as a fixer-upper.

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Someone Has to Deliver Your Packages in This Scorching Heat

As white-collar workers surf the web in air-conditioned comfort, delivery drivers are moving ecommerce packages through record temperatures.

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This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter

The bird may be dead, but Twitter—er, X—is still alive for communities, news, and memes.

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Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison

After five years of purgatory, Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment.

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Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT

Google’s new AI-powered search engine can feel more like artificial interference than artificial intelligence.

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I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto

Tools for Humanity has an iris-scanning Orb that decides whether you’re human or a robot—and then gives you crypto. But is Worldcoin worth the price?

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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds

Some social media users and lawmakers say chronological feeds are healthier. A new study found that Facebook and Instagram users who were forced to see time-ranked posts turned to TikTok instead.

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Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers

Researchers were given unprecedented access to Meta’s data during the 2020 elections. Meta says their results show its platforms don’t cause political polarization. That’s not entirely true.

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