Category: Business
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AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter
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The company nearly doubled its emissions in 2023, making it the worst actor in a notoriously unsustainable industry.
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The Godmother of AI Wants Everyone to Be a World Builder
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Stanford computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is unveiling a startup that aims to teach AI systems deep knowledge of physical reality. Investors are throwing money at it.
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OpenAI Announces a New AI Model, Code-Named Strawberry, That Solves Difficult Problems Step by Step
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The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI-o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance.
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An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job
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A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences.
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This New Tech Puts AI In Touch with Its Emotions—and Yours
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Hume AI, a startup founded by a psychologist who specializes in measuring emotion, gives some top large language models a realistic human voice.
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Why Is AI So Bad at Generating Images of Kamala Harris?
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Race and gender are part of it, but there’s more to those unconvincing pictures of the presidential candidate.
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This iPhone ‘Supercycle’ May Not Be So Super
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Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone’s buying the hype.
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Could This Be the Start of Amazon’s Next Robot Revolution?
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The ecommerce giant has acquired a team to give bots greater intelligence and dexterity—potentially automating much more of its warehouse operations.
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A New Group Is Trying to Make AI Data Licensing Ethical
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The Dataset Providers Alliance calls for creators and rights holders to be able to opt in to having their material used for training purposes.
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Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping
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This summer, Apple gave websites more control over whether the company could train its AI models on their data. Major publishers and platforms like The New York Times and Facebook have already opted out.