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Former regional Fed president: We need an "AI land grant act"
Big tech companies have invested hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure, including data centers that are popping up all over the country. Construc…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Silicon Valley's tech bro culture is changing
Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at The San Francisco Standard, spends a lot of time thinking about the industry’s internal dynamics. Gone are the co…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sora 2's disinformation problem
OpenAI’s latest AI video generator Sora 2 has gotten a lot of attention for its realistic creations. The tool is supposed to have guardrails to preve…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sam Bankman-Fried returns to court to challenge fraud verdict
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is serving 25 years in federal prison for fraud. His company collapsed and …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Bytes: Week in Review - Is AI to blame for this week's wave of layoffs?
Several major firms announced tens of thousands of job layoffs this week, and some reports are putting the blame on AI. Plus, startup Character.AI sa…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
3 months, 4 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 weeks 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 techno…
3 months, 4 weeks 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 ha…
4 months 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 planni…
4 months ago