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Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You

Meta has an idea: Instead of ever leaving its apps, why not stay and chat with a bot? This past week, Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to Meta’s...

21.04.2024 8

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Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You

Meta has an idea: Instead of ever leaving its apps, why not stay and chat with a bot? This past week, Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to Meta’s...

21.04.2024 8

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How Product Recommendations Broke Google

You’re sneezing a lot, and your eyes are watering. Maybe you have allergies, pets, or both. Perhaps you live somewhere with smog or in a region...

19.04.2024 30

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How Product Recommendations Broke Google

You’re sneezing a lot, and your eyes are watering. Maybe you have allergies, pets, or both. Perhaps you live somewhere with smog or in a region...

19.04.2024 4

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The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale

The sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators,...

18.04.2024 4

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The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale

The sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators,...

18.04.2024 7

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On Truth Social, Trump’s Sad Mini-MAGA, It’s 2016 Forever

Last year, Trump Media & Technology Group lost $58.2 million on $4.1 million in revenue. In March, it went public under the symbol DJT, and today its...

10.04.2024 9

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On Truth Social, Trump’s Sad Mini-MAGA, It’s 2016 Forever

Last year, Trump Media & Technology Group lost $58.2 million on $4.1 million in revenue. In March, it went public under the symbol DJT, and today its...

09.04.2024 8

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The Deodorant AI Spokesmodel Is a Real Person, Sort Of

In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French digital-marketing company called...

29.03.2024 6

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How an Automated Spokesmodel Drove the Internet Insane

In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French digital-marketing company called...

28.03.2024 4

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Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X?

“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022. “The bots are in for a surprise...

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Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X?

“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022. “The bots are in for a surprise...

26.03.2024 9

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The Government Finally Comes for Apple

In a lawsuit filed in conjunction with 15 states and Washington D.C., the Department of Justice has claimed that Apple has a “monopoly” in its...

22.03.2024 6

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The Government Finally Comes for Apple

In a lawsuit filed in conjunction with 15 states and Washington D.C., the Department of Justice has claimed that Apple has a “monopoly” in its...

22.03.2024 8

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X’s New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere

In June, Twitter started telling investors that video was the future of the platform. In January, the company, now called X, declared the job done in...

18.03.2024 8

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X’s New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere

In June, Twitter started telling investors that video was the future of the platform. In January, the company, now called X, declared the job done in...

18.03.2024 9

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Why the TikTok Ban Is Scrambling Washington

Nearly four years ago, Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok with an executive order, describing the app’s connections to the Chinese government, its...

13.03.2024 2

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Why the TikTok Ban Is Scrambling Washington

Nearly four years ago, Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok with an executive order, describing the app’s connections to the Chinese government, its...

13.03.2024 6

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With Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul Fight, Netflix Enters Its Stunt Era

In 2022, after its subscriber numbers dipped for the first time in a decade, Netflix started making some changes. In the coming years, it would raise...

08.03.2024 4

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TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting Banned

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would give TikTok owner ByteDance a deadline to divest itself of the social-media...

07.03.2024 3

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TikTok Seems Pretty Worried About Getting Banned

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would give TikTok owner ByteDance a deadline to divest itself of the social media...

07.03.2024 7

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Apple, Tesla, and the Dying Dream of Self-Driving Cars

Apple has spent nearly a decade not-so-quietly trying to build a car. It poached big shots from Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lamborghini...

05.03.2024 3

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Apple, Tesla, and the Dying Dream of Self-Driving Cars

Apple has spent nearly a decade not-so-quietly trying to build a car. It poached big shots from Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lamborghini...

05.03.2024 3

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ChatGPT and Google Gemini Are Both Doomed

Last week, users noticed that Google’s chatbot, Gemini, was pretty insistent about generating racially diverse images of people. Insistent enough,...

01.03.2024 3

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ChatGPT and Google Gemini Are Both Doomed

Last week, users noticed that Google’s chatbot, Gemini, was pretty insistent about generating racially diverse images of people. Insistent enough,...

01.03.2024 5

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Can Reddit Survive Its IPO?

Reddit has filed to go public. It’s a long time coming: The social-media company is a hugely popular, influential, and often useful platform whose...

24.02.2024 7

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Can Reddit Survive Its IPO?

Reddit has filed to go public. It’s a long time coming: The social-media company is a hugely popular, influential, and often useful platform whose...

24.02.2024 5

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AI Tools Like Google Gemini Are Tailor Made for Culture War

Whenever a new AI tool comes out, thousands of users rush to test it, trip it up, and figure out what it’s capable of. This week, it’s Google’s...

23.02.2024 10

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AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve

Whenever a new AI tool comes out, thousands of users rush to test it, trip it up, and figure out what it’s capable of. This week, it’s Google’s...

22.02.2024 4

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OpenAI’s New Product, Sora, Is Already Producing Wild Videos

This week, OpenAI shared a series of videos it says were produced with a new tool called Sora. Like Dall-e, OpenAI’s image-generation software, Sora...

17.02.2024 6

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OpenAI’s New Product, Sora, Is Already Producing Wild Videos

This week, OpenAI shared a series of videos it says were produced with a new tool called Sora. Like Dall-e, OpenAI’s image generation software, Sora...

16.02.2024 6

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Walmart Is Getting Tired of Just Being a Store

Walmart is a retailer with more than 4,500 stores and a pretty big website. Vizio is a company that sells millions of TVs at reasonable prices, many...

15.02.2024 3

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Walmart Is Getting Tired of Just Being a Store

Walmart is a retailer with more than 4,500 stores and a pretty big website. Vizio is a company that sells millions of TVs at reasonable prices, many...

15.02.2024 3

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Joe Biden’s TikTok Troubles

In a January social-media post, MSNBC host Chris Hayes wondered, “Do the Biden campaign people understand the degree to which he is being...

15.02.2024 7

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Joe Biden’s TikTok Troubles

In a January social-media post, MSNBC host Chris Hayes wondered, “Do the Biden campaign people understand the degree to which he is being...

15.02.2024 1

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Big Tech Still Has a Big Addiction to China

In late January, the Senate Judiciary Committee dragged a bunch of tech executives to Washington for a hearing that was, in theory, about online child...

09.02.2024 9

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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought

For some buyers, Apple Vision Pro’s most compelling use is one that Apple didn’t advertise. It’s a native feature of the device that allows its...

07.02.2024 30

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Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet

Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth, and the portal through...

26.01.2024 8

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The Vision Pro’s Biggest Problem Is Apple

The Apple Vision Pro isn’t the easiest sell, at least for now. As a concept, VR goggles still pose more questions than they answer. As a category,...

25.01.2024 8

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Celebrities Already Live in AI Hell

Experts have for years warned about the nefarious potential of generative AI, sketching a paranoid, dystopian future full of identity theft,...

15.01.2024 9

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What I Learned Selling a Used Pencil on TikTok Shop

Over the last four months, TikTok has undergone a rapid change, arguably the biggest in its strange short history: The most influential social app of...

10.01.2024 20

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AI Is Coming for the Influencers

For a preview of how AI will collide with creative industries, look to advertising. Amazon, Google, and Meta have all started encouraging advertisers...

03.01.2024 4

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Shein Found Amazon’s Weakness

By most measures, for many years now, things have been going pretty well for the Amazon corporation. It’s the dominant American e-commerce firm,...

21.12.2023 20

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What Do AI Companies Want With the Media?

This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” with...

17.12.2023 7

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What the Hell Is Elon Musk Doing at X? 5 Theories of the Case

In October 2022, Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter, which he soon rebranded as X. Since then, things haven’t gone quite as smoothly as they...

11.12.2023 10

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Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?

For the past year, the political class has been wearing itself out over what sounds like a simple question: Why are Americans so down on the economy?...

06.12.2023 3

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What If Amazon Delivered Everything You Order From Anywhere?

This holiday season, Amazon will cheerily assert its dominance on doorsteps across the country. There will be the stacks of Amazon boxes, of course,...

28.11.2023 3

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Sam Altman and OpenAI Are Victims of Their Own Hype

Last Friday, seemingly out of nowhere, the board of OpenAI announced that it had fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, for being “not consistently...

21.11.2023 6

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Is Bin Laden Really Going Viral With the Kids?

16.11.2023 3

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How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook

What’s going on with Meta these days? It’s simple, really. Instagram is TikTok but also Snapchat. Threads is Twitter but also Instagram. Facebook...

14.11.2023 4

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