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A selection of what I've read this past week.

A selection of what I've read this past week.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

Easy access and high rewards draw millions to careers in social media but agents say the challenges are underestimated

Healthy companies don’t get into exotic finance

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

A selection of what I've read this past week.

Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic

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GenAI product companies live in the future. Too bad their customers are in the present.

Sowing the seeds of our subprime AI crisis

Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic

Faced with bots immune to traditional marketing tactics, marketers are racing to win them over with logic and data.

Faced with bots immune to traditional marketing tactics, marketers are racing to win them over with logic and data.

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?

A selection of what I've read this past week.

Love it or hate it, improv comedy is neither dead nor dying.

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?

Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.

The global AI industry needs to earn $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the capital being deployed to build data centers around the world, Bain & Co. said.

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

A selection of what I've read this past week.

Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?

A look at genAI's (mostly negative) impact on labor and the workplace. How did we get here, and how do we get out?