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Stop, Before You Close This Tab (or Any Others) …

Sophie Caldwell

Whatever the inventors intended us to do with tabs, they probably couldn’t have imagined how emotionally attached to our tabs we would become. A recent study examining internet tab usage…

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Nonunion Workers Are Playing a Big Role in the Autoworkers’ Strike

Sophie Caldwell

Tens of thousands of people who work for Toyota in Kentucky, Mercedes-Benz in Alabama or Tesla in Texas are technically not involved in the high-stakes negotiations taking place between labor…

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Federal Investigators Widen Tesla Inquiry, Company Says

Sophie Caldwell

The Department of Justice has expanded its inquiry into Tesla’s business practices to include how far its vehicles can travel on a full charge and “personal benefits” to high-ranking executives…

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Face Search Engine PimEyes Blocks Searches of Children’s Faces

Sophie Caldwell

Concerns about children’s privacy have led PimEyes, the public face search engine, to ban searches of minors. The PimEyes chief executive, Giorgi Gobronidze, who is based in Tbilisi, Georgia, said…

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An Industry Insider Drives an Open Alternative to Big Tech’s A.I.

Sophie Caldwell

Ali Farhadi is no tech rebel.The 42-year-old computer scientist is a highly respected researcher, a professor at the University of Washington and the founder of a start-up that was acquired…

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Researchers Say Guardrails Built Around A.I. Systems Are Not So Sturdy

Sophie Caldwell

Before it released the A.I. chatbot ChatGPT last year, the San Francisco start-up OpenAI added digital guardrails meant to prevent its system from doing things like generating hate speech and…