Podcast Episodes

California's public GPU infrastructure experiment

Graphics processing units are essential to training and deploying artificial intelligence models, but they don’t come cheap. Big Tech companies like Meta, Microsoft and xAI have spent billions, amass…

Published on 10 hours ago

“China’s H-1B” talent visa gets praise abroad and backlash at home

Beijing is making it easier for global science and tech talent to visit or do business in China. Chinese officials opened a new K visa for graduates in science, technology, engineering and math to d…

Published on 1 day, 10 hours ago

Wikipedia co-founder: Trust and empathy are essential

In his new book, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales writes ”in the early years of the internet, we were right to be bullish about people and the technology. Our capacity for social connection, communit…

Published on 2 days, 10 hours ago

Sites marketed as tools for catching infidelity can also be misused by stalkers

There are a lot of trending videos of people using face recognition tools to find cheating partners on dating apps. On TikTok, for example, videos have gone viral about people explaining how to use t…

Published on 3 days, 10 hours ago

Bytes: Week in Review - OpenAI officially joins the browser wars

OpenAI released its new web browser, Atlas, in a bid to become our main conduit to the internet. Plus, we learned this week that Amazon may be planning to expand its use of robots and shrink its use …

Published on 6 days, 10 hours ago

The aerospace industry is betting on hybrid air taxis

The promise has been titillating: quiet, electric taxis taking off vertically, floating over urban traffic. The consulting firm McKinsey says in a matter of five years, flying taxi fleets could rival…

Published on 1 week ago

How Indigenous communities are adopting AI

Artificial intelligence holds a lot of promise for tribal nations — as a force multiplier for hard-to-staff departments, a tool to better serve tribal citizens, and even to aid in the revitalization …

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

How will AI-led e-commerce affect small businesses?

AI chatbot adoption is moving rapidly. We can already ask the tools to help us find local restaurants, a good deal on an item we’re looking to purchase. And soon, we’ll even be able to buy products f…

Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

New CA law requires Uber and Lyft to bargain with drivers

California has enacted a law requiring rideshare giants Uber and Lyft to collectively bargain with their drivers. Because the drivers are technically independent contractors, they otherwise would not…

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

Bytes: Week in Review — Instagram to limit content for teens, Walmart lands OpenAI deal, and Apple rebrands streaming service

AppleTV+ ditches the plus in its name. Plus, Walmart announced an e-commerce deal with OpenAI so customers can shop through ChatGPT.

But first, Instagram announced what it called PG-13 settings for te…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago