Category Archives: Business

How to Survive If You Were Part of the Tech Layoffs

Big Tech has gotten much smaller over the past few months. If you got a pink slip and you’re planning your next move, we have tips to help.

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News Publishers Are Wary of the Microsoft Bing Chatbot’s Media Diet

Microsoft’s new search interface can serve up key information from articles, removing the need to click—and potentially undermining media business models.

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Down the Chatbot Rabbit Hole

The founder of social Q&A site Quora is experimenting with Poe, an app that answers questions using AI. What role is left for people?

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The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret

Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.

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My Strange Day With Bing’s New AI Chatbot

Microsoft’s chatty search interface was impressive. But it also served up glitches, ethical dilemmas—and talk of a mysterious “Sydney.”

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The Chatbot Search Wars Have Begun

Microsoft, Google, and China’s Baidu all showed off ChatGPT-inspired technology to reinvent web search this week.

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The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push

Biden’s speech calling for better data protections got a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle. So, where’s a federal privacy law?

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The End of the Zoom Boom

Zoom was a pandemic star. It’s the latest tech company to find that status isn’t sustainable.

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Tech Volunteers Rush to Save Turkey’s Earthquake Survivors

Within hours of the disaster, software engineers were rolling out applications to help locate people in need and distribute aid.

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How to Detect AI-Generated Text, According to Researchers

ChatGPT is not as random as a human—for now.

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