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Articles from wapo.st

A look at the legal challenges of defining and prosecuting virtual crimes, amid rising reports of attacks, harassment, and sexual assault in the metaverse (wapo.st)
2024-2-6

Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs (wapo.st)
2024-2-4 Layoffs

More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups and many kids condemn the Kids Online Safety Act after the January 31 hearing, saying it is “to control information” (wapo.st)
2024-2-3

Inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive? (wapo.st)
2024-2-3 Inflation

Advice | Miss Manners: How much do I tell people about my finances? (wapo.st)
2024-1-29

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world's best recovery (wapo.st)
2024-1-29 U.S. Inflation

Supporters of Israel are using apps to mass report pro-Palestinian content online, raising questions for tech platforms over “citizen-led propaganda” campaigns (wapo.st)
2024-1-27 Israel

Sources: Sam Altman has had discussions with members of the US Congress about where and how to build fabs to increase the supply of advanced chips for AI (wapo.st)
2024-1-25 AI

A look at some of the most interesting tech from CES 2024: Roxi's interactive music video channels for linear TV, Samsung's Ballie AI robot projector, and more (wapo.st)
2024-1-11 Samsung AI Robot

A profile of OpenAI VP of Global Affairs Anna Makanju, who helped transform Sam Altman from a startup darling into an AI ambassador and worked in Obama's admin (wapo.st)
2024-1-10 Startup AI

Legal experts offer mixed opinions about how earlier copyright and fair use cases could affect The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft (wapo.st)
2024-1-6 Microsoft New York

Blue collar workers won big in 2023, defying bleak predictions. The year began with a recession forecast but ended with substantial wage growth and record union contracts for hundreds of thousands of workers (wapo.st)
2023-12-31

Microsoft's AI Image Creator, part of Bing and Paint, can generate realistic, violent images; Microsoft says some use the tech “in ways that were not intended” (wapo.st)
2023-12-29 Microsoft AI

Sources: India pressed Apple to come up with alternative explanations for warning Indian journalists and opposition politicians of state-sponsored iPhone hacks (wapo.st)
2023-12-28 India iPhone Apple

Economists disagree on Biden's polling. Even when they're in love. (wapo.st)
2023-12-28

Elon Musk is fielding complaints about Grok giving liberal responses on diversity, transgender rights, and inequality, despite promising an “anti-woke” chatbot (wapo.st)
2023-12-24 chatbot Elon Musk

How Sam Altman, the dealing-making prodigy full of contradictions, became one of the best-known tech CEOs, including by cultivating close ties with Peter Thiel (wapo.st)
2023-12-24

The US FTC proposes more data protections for kids, including making targeted ads for under-13s opt-in and banning using select data for kids push notifications (wapo.st)
2023-12-21

Experts and lawmakers say Tesla's recall is unlikely to solve the fundamental flaw of Tesla failing to limit where drivers can use Autopilot in the first place (wapo.st)
2023-12-17 Tesla

Sources detail Disinfo Lab, run by an Indian intelligence officer, that is behind a covert influence operation on social media discrediting PM Modi's critics (wapo.st)
2023-12-11 India Intelligence

The EU's AI Act includes restrictions for foundation models, subjecting some proprietary models classified as having “systemic risk” to additional obligations (wapo.st)
2023-12-10 AI

Sources: complaints from some senior OpenAI leaders that Sam Altman had been psychologically abusive were a major factor in the board's decision to fire Altman (wapo.st)
2023-12-9

How tech giants like Google and Meta ramped up university donations over the years, giving them influence over research in AI, social media, and disinformation (wapo.st)
2023-12-7 Google AI

Where we build homes - by state."for some reason, the law of supply and demand appears to have broken down in the U.S. housing market." (WP blames 'politics.') (wapo.st)
2023-11-28 U.S. Real Estate

The viral $16 McDonald's meal that may explain voter anger at Biden (wapo.st)
2023-11-25

Students hated ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.' Their teachers tried to dump it. (wapo.st)
2023-11-12

America's epidemic: Chronic illness is killing us too soon. After decades of progress, life expectancy — long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation's success — peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years, then drifted downward even before COVID. (wapo.st)
2023-10-9

"To speed scientific progress, do away with funding delays" (wapo.st)
2023-8-16

Electric vehicles appeal to conservative buyers sick of gas guzzlers (wapo.st)
2023-6-6 Gas

How single-celled yeasts are doing the work of 1,500-pound cows: Cowless dairy is here, with the potential to shake up the future of animal dairy and plant-based milks (wapo.st)
2023-3-20 British Pound

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