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Tech’s ubiquitous adoption of generative AI clients has crippled publishers. The Big Picture: Bots crawl publishers’ web pages and summarize their content without referring users to those pages. As a result, publishers receive no traffic or ad revenue from this engagement, forcing them to rethink their business models in order to survive. Between the Lines: […]
Programmers have begun coding themselves out of a job. The Big Picture: In a recent company-wide address, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy explained that the efficiency gains forecast by generative AI are so significant that Amazon will make major reductions to its workforce in the coming years. The jobs AI created are already gone, but it’s […]
Big Tech’s push to build hundreds of data centers has brought economic activity — and massive disruption — to the lives of nearby residents. The Big Picture: Big Tech companies like Google have recently constructed over a thousand data centers in dense clusters, terraforming the surrounding environment and making it almost impossible to live nearby. […]
Amazon is reportedly developing a humanoid robot that will be able to do the most customer-facing aspect of the company — deliver packages. Why It Hits: The robot race is in full swing, with Tesla, Agility, Google, Nvidia, and so many others working on humanoids. Yes, everyone is trying to recreate I, Robot in an […]
Swiss robotics company RIVR is partnering with delivery platform Veho to test a fleet of robots that can deliver packages right to your door in Austin, Texas. Why It Rolls: While several startups are racing to make a humanoid robot, some of the biggest innovations in robotics are happening with single-task-focused autonomous machines. You soon […]
Many non-tech people are starting to use AI’s coding capabilities to build their own bespoke apps… all without any programming knowledge. Why It Hits: For as long as coding has been around, software engineering has only been doable by… well… software engineers. With AI giving that capability to anyone who doesn’t have technical knowledge, becoming […]
AI firm Anthropic released the latest versions of its Claude chatbot last week… and its most powerful version is capable of trying to manipulate, deceive, and blackmail users from shutting it down. Whoops. Why It Scares: We’re officially entering Skynet territory. While Anthropic has billed itself as the safer alternative to OpenAI (Anthropic was founded […]
A doctor at the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania teamed up with a gene-editing researcher at the University of Pennsylvania to develop a personalized CRISPR therapy to save the life of a baby named KJ Muldoon with a rare genetic disorder. Why It Hits: The success of the personalized therapy was the first time such a […]
Apple has partnered with brain-interface startup Synchron on a new technology that allows immobilized or paralyzed people — an estimated 150,000 people in the US alone — to use iOS devices without their hands. The Big Thought: Brain-computer interfaces have moved from the world of science fiction to reality. Apple is likely looking to get in early […]
World — the eye-scanning crypto/human-verification product from Tools for Humanity, the startup founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and physics researcher Alex Blania — is officially coming to America (excluding New York) after a global rollout… and is getting an Apple Store-like treatment. The Big Picture: In the age of AI, determining whether someone online […]