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What we learned from the Canvas hack
Earlier this month, a group called ShinyHunters took responsibility for a hack on the education platform Canvas, which is used for coursework at coll…
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Study finds AI is making the internet more artificially happy
As of mid-2025, about a third of newly published websites were generated by artificial intelligence. That’s a massive increase from just three years …
1 month, 1 week ago
Canada to share its hydropower with Northeast U.S.
Hydropower is one of the oldest forms of energy creation, and uses the flow of rushing water to create electricity. The province of Québec, Canada, h…
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Meta wants AI chats to be private
This week, WhatsApp is offering private chats with its AI. Plus, Princeton will now hold supervised exams after a rise in AI-fueled cheating.
But firs…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Why audio deepfakes are so hard to spot
Voice cloning is the use of artificial intelligence to generate a clone of a real person’s voice, imitating the sound, when they pause and what words…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Raising kids in an AI-driven world
In order to write her new book “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI To Do ‘Almost’ Everything," journalist Joanna Stern decided to invite artificial i…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
What AI can and can't do for you (for now)
Imagine if you invited robots - smart ones or “smart-ish,” at least - into every aspect of your life. Your emails and texts are all composed by an AI…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Amid Silicon Valley scramble for AI agent productivity, "token anxiety" takes hold
There's a new flex in Silicon Valley: how big is your AI agent swarm? They can work on your behalf, autonomously, 24/7, on whatever goal you give the…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Anthropic’s new, powerful allies: Elon Musk and SpaceX
On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we’ll discuss why Apple is paying a $250 million settlement over its Apple Intelligence tool…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Elon Musk is in court arguing that OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit model
Back in 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman got the idea to start a nonprofit AI lab to develop artificial general intelligence that benefits all humanity…
1 month, 3 weeks ago