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The New Yorker – Gift Article – “The tech world assumes that A.I.-aided education is necessary and inevitable. A growing number of parents, educators, and cognitive scientists say the opposite. I don’t like A.I., and I am raising my children not to like it. I’ve been telling them for years now that chatbots are manipulative …
OpenAI: “Our state of the art model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text. Today we’re releasing OpenAI Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. This release is part of our broader effort to support a more resilient software ecosystem by providing developers practical infrastructure for …
CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library …
Literary Hub: “Lately there has been a lot of hand-wringing, and rightly so, about if and how the publishing industry will deal with AI in the wake of the cancelation of the first major book deal due to suspected AI usage. There is no easy solution to AI detection for many reasons, partly because large …
Wired: “The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.”
Ars Technica: “Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged in a press release Monday. “Amazon and a competitor will knowingly stop price matching each other, so that one retailer can increase …
Bloomberg (Gift Article): “A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation viewed by Bloomberg News. A handful of users in a private online forum gained …
The Verge: “Nothing has launched Essential Voice, a dictation tool that tidies speech in more than 100 languages and sounds similar to a product Google launched earlier this month. It supports shortcuts for repeated words and phrases and speech-to-text translation. It’s currently only available for Phone (3) and Phone (4a) Pro, but Nothing hopes it’s …
Wired – no paywall: “Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative…Tracking disappearing ships makes use of several technologies, some of them newer than others. Samir Madani, the cofounder of …
Miissouri School of Journalism: “Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content. TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA ’25, highlights how to create news content that resonates with TikTok …
Huggin Face: “On the hub, we index arXiv papers any time someone mentions an arXiv abstract or PDF link in the README of a model, dataset or Space. Besides, any researcher can submit their work to Daily Papers at https://hf.co/papers/submit, up to 14 days after the publication date on arXiv. Daily Papers view. This enables …
The New York Times: “For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain… A.I. system is to ask the model to explain itself. If a therapy language model tells you that you should take antidepressants, you …
