Three years ago, Andrew Stockwell had his hiring routine down to a science. As head of people for the software-buying company Vendr, Stockwell posted a…
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Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
Spirit Airlines may have declared bankruptcy this spring, but the budget airline is still worth something—to AI giants, at least. In mid-August, Google won a…
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
For Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, it started with a few text messages. On March 12, as he was working his…
The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Travel just two hours west of Beijing by train, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the rolling grasslands and ancient cinder cones of Inner Mongolia.…
The Single English County Saying No to Palantir
The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and…
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it’s not going that well. The inconvenient truth…
I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices…
Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements…