The Twitch competitor has doled out generous deals to content creators. It has also faced criticism for its lax moderation and embrace of online gambling.
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TikTok’s C.E.O. Uses Personal Touch to Address Antisemitism Concerns
The company in recent weeks organized several in-person meetings between its top executive and Jewish groups and business leaders.
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1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study
Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a human and a robot talking. (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) In a preprint research paper titled “Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?”, two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI’s GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into...
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Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition
Enlarge (credit: VMWare) Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that it would buy VMware for $61 billion and take on an additional $8 billion of the company’s debt, and on November 22 of 2023 Broadcom said that it had completed the acquisition. And it looks like Broadcom’s first big move is going to be...
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Judge Halts TikTok Ban in Montana
TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been locked in a legal battle with Montana since the state passed the ban in April.
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Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments
Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.
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4,789 Facebook Accounts in China Impersonated Americans, Meta Says
The company warned that the inauthentic accounts underscored the threat of foreign election interference in 2024.
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Big Companies Find a Way to Identify A.I. Data They Can Trust
Mainstream companies have concerns about the lineage of the data that powers A.I. applications. An industry group is addressing that challenge.
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Disinformation Is Big Challenge as COP28 Opens in Dubai
Online influencers, fossil fuel companies and some of the countries attending COP28 have nourished a feedback loop of falsehoods.
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ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the tech world.
Enlarge / An artist’s interpretation of what ChatGPT might look like if embodied in the form of a robot toy blowing out a birthday candle. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) One year ago today, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. It’s uncommon for a single product to create as much impact on the...