Tag: wired_backchannel
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Media Monitor: WIRED Reports Data Brokers Pitching Corporate Files to AI Labs
WIRED's Backchannel reports data brokers are pitching companies on selling internal files — emails, documents, Slack messages and tickets — to AI labs for model training, with pitches citing fees up to $2 million.
Science & TechnologyBusinessMediaArtificial IntelligenceComputers and InternetEconomyElection WIREDBackchanneldata brokersAI training dataAnthropicOpenAIWIRED Backchannel
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Media Monitor: WIRED Says Apple's New CEO Puts Products First as Trump Targets 'AI' Term
WIRED's Backchannel reports Apple's new CEO John Ternus is a product-focused leader, while President Trump follows through on a ban of the term "artificial intelligence" or "AI."
Science & TechnologyBusinessPolitics and GovernmentComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceGeneral Politics AppleJohn TernusMacBook ProDonald Trumptechnology industryconsumer electronicsWIRED Backchannel
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New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion in Cambridge Analytica privacy case
Judge Francis Mathew cut a potential $219.5 billion penalty after jurors found nearly 44 million violations of state consumer-protection law.
BusinessScience & TechnologyLaw EnforcementLegalComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceSocial Issues MetaNew MexicoCambridge Analyticaconsumer protectionfineWIREDBackchannelWIRED BackchannelWarhoundPalmer LuckeyBen LammAndurilNew Mexico privacy rulingSpaceXAirbnbThe Rundown
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Media Monitor: WIRED Backchannel Spotlights MIT Professor's Warning on Chatbot Reliance
WIRED's Backchannel reports MIT professor Sherry Turkle warns in a new book that people have become dangerously enmeshed with chatbots, calling it a state of emergency for humanity.
Science & TechnologyMediaBusinessArtificial IntelligenceComputers and InternetSocial IssuesDigital and Print Publishing Sherry TurkleWIRED BackchannelArtificial IntimacychatbotsMITOpenAISam Altman
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Media Monitor: WIRED Reflects on the iPod at 25 and Musk's AI Rebrand
WIRED's Backchannel marks 25 years since the iPod's debut, recalling Steve Jobs' prediction, while noting Elon Musk's reported rebrand of SpaceX's AI division.
Science & TechnologyBusinessPolitics and GovernmentMediaComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceGeneral PoliticsDigital and Print Publishing WIREDBackchannelAppleiPodSteve JobsElon MuskSpaceXWIRED Backchannel
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Media Monitor: WIRED Reports Trump Order Renames "Artificial Intelligence" as "Super Intelligence"
WIRED's Backchannel reports President Trump issued an executive order renaming "artificial intelligence" as "Super Intelligence," and that tech billionaires who once championed AI stayed silent.
Politics and GovernmentScience & TechnologyMediaWhite HouseArtificial IntelligenceGeneral PoliticsComputers and Internet Donald TrumpSuper Intelligenceexecutive orderWIRED BackchannelDartmouth College
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Media Monitor: WIRED Recalls Clash Between Tech's Idealists and Its Investors
WIRED's Backchannel recounts a 2015 Founders Fund retreat where computer pioneer Alan Kay and investor Peter Thiel failed to connect, illustrating tech's divided worlds.
Science & TechnologyBusinessMediaComputers and InternetArtificial IntelligenceEmployment and LaborEconomy WIREDBackchannelAlan KayPeter ThielFounders Fundventure capitaltechnology industryWIRED Backchannel
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Media Monitor: WIRED Backchannel Reports Anthropic CEO Says AI Safety Hinges on Understanding How Models "Think"
WIRED's Backchannel reports Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI safety depends on understanding how models think, warning that evidence of potential harm remains disturbing and largely theoretical.
Science & TechnologyMediaBusinessArtificial IntelligenceComputers and InternetDigital and Print Publishing AnthropicDario AmodeiAI safetyWIRED BackchannelAI doomerismtechnology