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Starting a company together can feel like a marriage. These founders planned for the divorce.

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Starting a company together can feel like a marriage. These founders planned for the divorce.

Build a calm, realistic plan to recover from job loss and move toward your next role.

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'If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.'

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'If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.'

According to Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton, that’s the “honest answer” as to why the streaming platform has started training Amazon’s generative AI models on users’ content by default. Twitch users can choose to opt out, but Minton defends the default setting because “almost every content service in the world” is also doing it.

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I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.

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I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.

Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.

16 days ago

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So You Want to Build an A.I. Star?

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So You Want to Build an A.I. Star?

Designers at a new crop of creative studios create fake personas they hope real people will love. Are they distorting culture or mirroring it?

16 days ago

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A New "Digital Organism" Could Speed Up AI Biology

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A New "Digital Organism" Could Speed Up AI Biology

Scientists created a kind of flight simulator for medicine to run 'what if?' experiments on biology.

16 days ago

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An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire

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An industrywide power crunch is changing how Amazon runs its e-commerce empire

Amazon is spreading e-commerce workloads across more AWS regions as power and capacity constraints reshape cloud computing in the AI era.

16 days ago

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How kids feel about AI, in their own words

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How kids feel about AI, in their own words

Does an AI-filled future seem like promise or peril to today’s teens and tweens? We went right to the source.

16 days ago

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As Comedians Toy With A.I., Who Will Get the Last Laugh?

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As Comedians Toy With A.I., Who Will Get the Last Laugh?

Several acts at the Edinburgh Fringe are testing the boundaries of creativity using artificial intelligence.

16 days ago

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YouTube’s AI chatbot search comes to mobile.

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YouTube’s AI chatbot search comes to mobile.

The “Ask YouTube” conversational search experience that YouTube started testing in April is now rolling out to the mobile app. It’s available for signed-in users in the US who are 13 or older, and can be found by tapping the “Ask” option in the YouTube search bar.

16 days ago

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TSMC and Sony team up, China’s AI stocks swing

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TSMC and Sony team up, China’s AI stocks swing

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

16 days ago

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says there's one thing Silicon Valley needs to do to change Americans' minds on AI

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says there's one thing Silicon Valley needs to do to change Americans' minds on AI

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said it's in Silicon Valley's best interest to change Americans' minds about AI. He has an idea how to do it.

16 days ago

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Legal AI start-up Legora seeks funds at more than $10bn valuation

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Legal AI start-up Legora seeks funds at more than $10bn valuation

Swedish company was valued at $5.6bn only four months ago as interest in artificial intelligence tools for professional services soars

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