Category Archives: Business

How IT Departments Scrambled to Address the CrowdStrike Chaos

System administrators and their teams sprang into action last Friday and worked tirelessly to get their companies back online amid one of the worst digital blackouts ever.

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Meta’s New Llama 3.1 AI Model Is Free, Powerful, and Risky

The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate around the potential pitfalls of releasing AI without guardrails.

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Toyota Pulls Off a Fast and Furious Demo With Dual Drifting AI-Powered Race Cars

Algorithms designed to handle a car after it loses traction could potentially intervene on behalf of human drivers.

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Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis

The Alphabet-owned driverless car service is getting aggressive against alleged vandals after a series of violent incidents in San Francisco.

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An Open AI-Backed Nonprofit Gave $1,000 a Month to Poor People. Here’s What They Did With It

OpenResearch released the first results of the most comprehensive study on giving unrestricted cash grants to impoverished Americans. Researchers say it will flame both sides of the debate over welfare.

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The Global CrowdStrike Outage Triggered a Surprise Return to Cash

The event caused chaos at airports, grocery stores, and Starbucks outlets.

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Donald Trump and Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Elegy

Venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen claim the tech industry, California, and the country are doomed if we don’t embrace the former president.

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We Asked AI to Take Us On a Tour of Our Cities. It Was Chaos

We had a specialty chatbot to curate perfect days out in London and New York for under $100 each. We’re still recovering from our journeys.

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Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World

A software update from cybersecurity company Crowdstrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.

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The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

Tech companies—including OpenAI—are developing a new generation of AI assistants that can not only write code but debug, organize, and critique it, too.

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