Category Archives: Business

Roblox Is Bringing Generative AI to Its Gaming Universe

The company aims to draw on the new technology’s code-writing ability to make its digital worlds even more customizable.

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Google Pioneered Stratospheric Loon Balloons. Was China Watching?

The search company helped revolutionize balloon technology to beam internet access to global blank spots. Now, China seems to have lofted a similar project.

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One Startup’s Plan to Help Africa Lure Back Its AI Talent

Lelapa is building a research lab to serve African businesses and nonprofits, with the hope that locally grown algorithms can better serve communities.

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Germany Raises Red Flags About Palantir’s Big Data Dragnet

A court has issued strict limits on how police can pull innocent bystanders into big data investigations.

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Bitcoin Miners Are Playing a High-Stakes Game of Chicken

In the bitter crypto winter, companies are making deep cuts to survive a new challenge.

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Tesla’s Recall of Full Self-Driving Targets a ‘Fundamental’ Flaw

More than 360,000 vehicles will receive an over-the-air update after the US government said that Autopilot can be dangerous in some driving situations.

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What Chatbot Bloopers Reveal About the Future of AI

Microsoft’s new chatbot for Bing has displayed some strange behavior, proving that AI is more fallible than tech companies let on.

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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam

And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.

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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger

Researchers have spent years warning that text-generation algorithms can spew bias and falsehoods. Tech giants are rushing them into products anyway.

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Elon Musk’s New Twitter Superpower Is Dangerous

Musk has given himself an even bigger bullhorn to annoy users and spread disinformation on the platform.

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