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Elon Musk offers to “buy 100% of Twitter” for $43 billion
Enlarge (credit: JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk on Wednesday offered to personally acquire Twitter in an all-cash deal valued at $43 billion. Musk laid out the...
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How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery
Enlarge / A drone from Alphabet's Wing delivers a package to a customer. (credit: Wing) Earlier this month, Google’s sister company, Wing, began offering a drone delivery service in the Dallas suburbs...
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Senators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the web
Enlarge / Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is the co-sponsor of the SMART Copyright Act. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Two senators have introduced legislation that would give the US Copyright Office...
View ArticleOpinion: Here’s a simple way Elon Musk could make Twitter better
Last month, Twitter user Qasim Rashid tweeted the following: Oil & Avg Gas $ June 2008:•Oil: $181.58/barrel•Gas: $4.10/gallonOil & Avg Gas $ Mar 2022:•Oil: $99.76/barrel•Gas: $4.32/gallonIf...
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Tesla sues thermal engineer for allegedly stealing secrets of “Dojo”...
Enlarge / Yatskov worked near Tesla's headquarters in Fremont, California. (credit: Michael Vi / Getty) Tesla on Friday sued a former thermal engineer for trade-secret theft. The company accused its...
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El Salvador buys more bitcoin after ratings agency downgrades its debt
Enlarge / Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador. (credit: Kellys Portillo/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images) Bitcoin's price has plunged in recent days, briefly falling below $30,000 on Monday evening and...
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Bitcoin plunges to lowest price since 2020 amid broader sell-off
Enlarge (credit: R.Tsubin / Getty) The price of one bitcoin briefly fell below $27,000 on Thursday morning, the lowest price for the cryptocurrency since 2020. The world's leading virtual currency...
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Cryptocurrency plunges as crypto “bank” Celsius suspends withdrawals
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Major cryptocurrencies suffered big losses on Monday. As I write this, bitcoin is down 14 percent over the last 24 hours, while ether is down 16 percent....
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Ethereum’s “Merge” is about to put every ether miner out of work
Enlarge (credit: Andre Malerba/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In a few weeks, Ethereum is slated to undergo the most significant change in its seven-year history. Until now, the Ethereum blockchain has...
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The robot takeout revolution is closer than you think
Enlarge / This Kiwibot robot is waiting to be loaded with my muffin. Afterward, a worker carried it across the street on the scooter. (credit: Timothy B. Lee) I’d been following the robot for about...
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Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI
Image generated by Stable Diffusion with the prompt “Mickey Mouse in front of a McDonalds sign.” (credit: Timothy B. Lee / Stable Diffusion) The AI software Stable Diffusion has a remarkable ability...
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The dumb reason Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to...
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The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated
Enlarge / The latest iteration of Waymo's self-driving technology is based on the Jaguar I-PACE. (credit: Waymo) Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. It wasn’t just Tesla...
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A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica.) When ChatGPT was introduced last fall, it sent shockwaves through the technology industry and the larger world. Machine learning researchers had been...
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Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?
(credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google’s Waymo and...
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Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art
Enlarge Two weeks ago, the US Copyright Office refused to register a copyright for Théâtre D'opéra Spatial, an AI-generated image that got widespread media attention last year after it won an art...
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The real research behind the wild rumors about OpenAI’s Q* project
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On November 22, a few days after OpenAI fired (and then re-hired) CEO Sam Altman, The Information reported that OpenAI had made a technical breakthrough...
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7.1 million miles, 3 minor injuries: Waymo’s safety data looks good
Enlarge (credit: Waymo) Waymo on Wednesday released new crash data based on the company's first 7.1 million miles of fully driverless operations in Arizona and California. The data shows that...
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DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry
Enlarge / Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies and developer of AlphaGO, attends the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 2, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (credit: Toby Melville - WPA...
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Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The day after The New York Times sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, the author and systems architect Daniel Jeffries wrote an essay-length tweet...
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