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Google’s new tools help discussion forums and social media platforms rank higher in search results

November 27, 2023

Google today introduced new tools for website owners, including those running social media sites and discussion forums, who want to better elevate their content in Google’s search results. The feature follows Google’s reprioritization of user-generated web content over SEO-optimized junk, which has increasingly become a problem on today’s modern web. In May, Google first rolled […]

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This week in AI: The OpenAI debacle shows the perils of going commercial

November 27, 2023

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, it was impossible to tune out — for […]

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Sweden sides with Tesla, says transport agency must deliver plates or pay up

November 27, 2023

Tesla won a small battle against Swedish union workers fighting for collective bargaining rights, but the war will continue. A Swedish court ruled Monday that the country’s transport authority has to get Tesla its license plates, which are being blocked by striking postal workers, or pay up, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported. Workers for PostNord, Sweden’s […]

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Rivian launches leasing program for its all-electric R1T pickup in 14 states

November 27, 2023

Rivian kicked off Monday a limited program that will give customers in select U.S. states the option to lease an all-electric R1T pickup truck. For now, customers living in 14 U.S. states can access the leasing program via the R1T configurator page on its website. The states, a list that includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida […]

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With AI chatbots, will Elon Musk and the ultra-rich replace the masses?

November 27, 2023

Elon Musk is hyping the imminent release of his ChatGPT competitor Grok, yet another example of how his entire personality is just itself a biological LLM made by ingesting all of Reddit and 4chan. Grok already seems patterned in many ways off of the worst of Elon’s indulgences, with the sense of humor of a […]

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