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Lifehacker: “Over the past several years, countless websites have added paywalls: If you want to read their articles, you have to sign up and pay a monthly fee. Some sites have a “metered” paywall—meaning you can read a certain number of articles for free before they ask for money—and others have a hard paywall, where …
palewire – Ben Welsh: “In total, 546 of 1,149 news publishers surveyed by the homepages.news archive have instructed OpenAI, Google AI or the non-profit Common Crawl to stop scanning their sites, which amounts to 47.5% of the sample. The three organizations systematically crawl web sites to gather the information that fuels generative chatbots like OpenAI’s …
MakeUseOf: “Looking for medical information online is a gamble at best. You key in a symptom, a disease, a medical term or two, and you’re quickly presented with a bunch of matching results at random. You take one look at them, add two and two, and come up with five. Searching for and relying on …
The Verge: “Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) will let you create images right from a text prompt starting Thursday, the company announced. Microsoft has offered the ability to make images from Bing Chat using OpenAI’s DALL-E model since March, so it’s not too surprising to see Google follow suit. Here’s how it works. If you’re …
Joule / Full text free to read: “Alex de Vries is a PhD candidate at the VU Amsterdam School of Business and Economics and the founder of Digiconomist, a research company dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. His research focuses on the environmental impact of emerging technologies and has played a major …
Washington Post [read free]: “You might be seeing violent, abhorrent videos in your social media feeds from Israel and Gaza. Those images have included the apparent killing of Israeli hostages, dead bodies and other cruelties. Those online videos can feed a hunger for information for people in Israel and Gaza in the absence of official …
The Verge: “People shopping for electric vehicles, heat pumps, or air conditioning units will see enhanced search results on Google in a series of updates the company hopes will help people live more sustainable, climate-friendly lives. The tech giant revealed the new updates alongside a host of expanded AI tools for people and policymakers to …
Tech Republic: “This is a complete guide on how to use Google Bard. Learn how Google Bard can help you boost your productivity, creativity and more. Bard is Google’s public entry into the highly competitive field of artificial intelligence chatbots, which also includes OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google intends Bard to be a “creative and helpful collaborator” …
ZDNet: “It’s free, there’s no waitlist, and you don’t even need to use Edge to access it. Here’s everything else you need to know to get started using Microsoft’s AI art generator. As the use of different artificial intelligence (AI) tools has exploded in recent months, we’ve seen the development of generative AI sprouting in the …
An ongoing case, U.S. v. Google, promises to be the most significant technology antitrust trial in the U.S. in decades. The case involves allegations that Google violated a prohibition on using exclusionary practices to maintain a monopoly under the Sherman Act. These allegations center on Google’s browser agreements with Apple and Mozilla, under which Google …
ZDNet: “Arc Max is a collection of five AI-powered features, powered by a combination of GPT-3.5 and Anthropic. Those features are: Ask ChatGPT – this will allow you to ask ChatGPT your questions directly from the Arc Command Line, which can be brought up with the Command+L keyboard shortcut. Tidy Tab Title – if you’ve …
Tech Crunch: “Attorneys general from 17 states joined the FTC in the lawsuit, alleging that Amazon leverages a “set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies” to maintain a monopoly. The states that signed onto the FTC’s action are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, …
