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The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy

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OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to $500 billion. The company and its remarkable chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when […]

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The Secret Story of FTX’s Rise and Ruin: Part 1

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Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the “crypto king.” But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around the world, customers of the cryptocurrency exchange were suddenly cut off from their money.  “I tried to withdraw an amount, you know, and it would spin and say, your, your withdrawal is […]

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Clients of a Trump-Connected Lobbying Firm Keep Landing No-Bid ICE Contracts

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The company’s biometric tech always sounded like it was ripped from the plot of a dystopian thriller, but recently, the iris-scanning system developed by the Massachusetts-based BI² Technologies has become part of the nation’s deportation dragnet. How BI² landed an ICE contract worth as much as $10 million is in part a tale of the […]

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Trump’s War on Wind Power Has One Very Big Exception

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As Donald Trump rolled down the 18th fairway at his Turnberry golf resort in July, he was troubled by a deathly vision, slowly spinning in the Scottish distance: wind turbines. “These things are massive, and you’re looking at these ugly windmills, and it’s a shame,” Trump lamented in an interview with the New York Post—yet […]

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The Key Missing Piece to the Megahit “Adolescence”

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In March, the fictional TV miniseries Adolescence became a surprise global sensation. Its story centers on the Millers, a working-class family of four in England whose world is upended when 13-year-old Jamie Miller—a bright, soft-spoken schoolboy—is arrested for murder. Jamie is accused of fatally stabbing a female classmate, Katie, apparently after being radicalized online. Through […]

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Government Documents Show Police Disabling AI Oversight Tools

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In April 2024, the American police tech firm Axon, which leads the market for police body cameras, released a tool it billed as “revolutionary”: Draft One, an AI-powered software package that would turn body camera footage and audio into intelligible police reports. Once best known for developing the Taser, Axon has transformed into a $50 […]

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As Palantir Cashes In on Trump 2.0, Peter Thiel Is Bankrolling Republicans Again

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In 2023, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech titan and investor, issued a proclamation: He would not make political donations in 2024 to any candidate, including Donald Trump, whom he had backed in 2016. Now, after sitting out the 2024 election cycle, Thiel is back in the game. He has quietly donated more than $850,000 this […]

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America’s Worst Polluters See a Lifeline in Power-Gobbling AI—and Donald Trump

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This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AI is “not my thing,” President Donald Trump admitted during a speech in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. However, the president said during his remarks at the Energy and Innovation Summit, his advisers had told him just how important energy was to the future of […]

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The Texas Floods Amped Up the Battle Between MAHA and the Tech Right

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One longstanding fight that has divided the political right has been over whether or not humans should be allowed to modify the weather, with religious conservatives saying absolutely not, while the tech visionaries are all for it. These debates were often theoretical, but then the catastrophic floods in Texas took place. On July 2, two […]

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Internet Extremists Want To Make All AI Chatbots as Hateful as Grok Just Was 

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On Tuesday, Grok, the AI-chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI, began generating vile, bigoted and antisemitic responses to X users’ questions, referring to itself as “MechaHitler,” praising Hitler and “the white man,” and, as a weird side-quest, making intensely critical remarks in both Turkish and English about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as well as […]

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Ban on AI Regulations in Trump’s Tax Bill Carries a Huge Environmental Cost

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republicans are pushing to pass a major spending bill that includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have […]

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