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Why Congress’s AI Plan Was Doomed From the StartThe report, broad in scope but often thin on details, calls for $32 billion in emergency spending—to put safeguards around the rapidly developing technology, but also to “avoid creating a policy vacuum that China and Russia will fill.
Help! I Rescued a Man Who Fell Off a Cliff. I Never Imagined It Would Change My Life In This Way.Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. While trail running in a remote part of a national park a few years ago, I came across a man who fell off a cliff and sustained multiple serious injuries.
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Republicans release tech executives’ internal communicationsConservatives are pushing a story about Biden, covid-19, and content moderation on social media platforms in both the court of public opinion and the Supreme Court.
ChatGPT Gets RealThe bot is now capable of a normal (human) conversation. Is that fun or terrifying? According to ChatGPT itself, ChatGPT is “a smart assistant that can communicate in natural language, making it easier to interact with technology.
Battle of the AI bots: Copilot vs ChatGPT vs GeminiYou can’t miss the recent and rapid rise of generative AI chatbots, with more and more of these apps opening up their doors to users—and pushing their way into the software and hardware we use every day.
The New Empires of the Internet AgeThe world today is a geopolitical hot mess. One source of that messiness is a lack of consensus among scholars and policymakers about the global distribution of power. Do we still live in a world of U.S.
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way downA year ago, Google said that it believed AI was the future of search. That future is apparently here: Google is starting to roll out “AI Overviews,” previously known as the Search Generative Experience, or SGE, to users in the US and soon around the world.
Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should KnowIn April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they’d been targeted with spyware. “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID,” the notification reads.
How to Use Apple Apps on WindowsApple’s apps and services usually work brilliantly well on Apple devices, but what about when you’re on a computer that isn’t running macOS? While using Apple’s apps on Windows isn’t ideal, it’s significantly easier than it used to be—and you can now get most of your Apple information
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcastVC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes “Slack channel fatigue,” he says. Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public.