HyperTexting Makes the Entire Web a Social Feed for Your Doomscrolling Pleasure
Spend far too many hours mindlessly scrolling social media feeds, where a black-box algorithm fine-tuned for maximum engagement…
OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for…
Algorithmic Intimacy: TikTok, the BFF I’ve Always Had
TikTok (formerly musical.ly) – the entertainment app where creators post short-form videos that range from fashion to sports…
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in…
A Century Later, Ramanujan’s Pi Equations Are Helping Physicists Unlock the Secrets of Nature
In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating the value…
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom – POLITICO
Draft changes would create new exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to legally process special categories…
EU accuses Meta, TikTok of breaching digital rules – POLITICO
“We disagree with any suggestion that we have breached the DSA, and we continue to negotiate” with the…
‘Pendulum has swung way too far’ on EU regulating tech, says German minister – POLITICO
The German minister’s trip comes as the European Commission is drafting proposals to roll back some of its…
SAGPEK: fast and flexible approach to identify genotypes of Sanger sequencing data | BMC Bioinformatics
Software architecture SAGPEK mainly processes Sanger sequencing results of two kinds of samples: diploids such as humans and…
I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now
A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did…