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A new bill in California offers an alternative to Australia-style link taxes. PLUS: OpenAI explains itself
Journalism
A new bill in California offers an alternative to Australia-style link taxes. PLUS: OpenAI explains itself
OpenAI
The company hasn’t been the same since Sam Altman’s return — and its treatment of Scarlett Johansson should worry everyone
Labor
When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
OpenAI
OpenAI’s forthcoming voice assistant laughs, flirts, helps — and draws a sharp distinction with Google
AI
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating
OpenAI
The company has new strategies for shoring up our shared sense of reality. Will they matter in the election?
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