Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi

For the past few weeks, Musk’s team has been working to swiftly cut costs across the US government, which has seen its annual deficit increase for the last three years. The Office of Personnel...

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his return to the White House.In an executive order signed Thursday,...

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.Shortly before the federally mandated January 19 deadline, TikTok cut...

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok...

The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing

With the clock running out on the Biden administration, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk in federal court. The statute at hand is relatively straightforward. The timing of the complaint...

Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media

The Chat Every week, I talk to one of MIT Technology Review’s journalists to go behind the scenes of a story they are working on. But this week, I turned the tables a bit...

Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves

This 180-degree change is a response to Donald Trump's imminent second presidential term and to the methods of the competition, such as X's Community Notes. Meta decided not to invest any more money in...

Nvidia’s ‘Cosmos’ AI Helps Humanoid Robots Navigate the World

Nvidia announced today it’s releasing a family of foundational AI models called Cosmos that can be used to train humanoids, industrial robots, and self-driving cars. While language models learn how to generate text by...

Navigating Data Privacy Compliance for Remote Staffing & Outsourcing

Remote work and offshore outsourcing have become integral parts of business operations worldwide, including in Australia. The flexibility and cost-effectiveness of remote staffing make it an attractive...

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was meant to be...

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