‘If It Seems Too Good to Be True It Probably Is’: $18 Million Worth of ‘Great Deals’ Confiscated By Border Cops
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Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]
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Moving generative AI into production
Generative AI has taken off. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, businesses have flocked to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI models looking for solutions to their most complex and labor-intensive problems. The promise that customer service could be turned over to highly trained chat platforms that could recognize a customer’s problem and…
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The Download: words of wisdom from the departing White House tech advisor, and controversial AI manga translation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What the departing White House chief tech advisor has to say on AI President Biden’s administration will end within two months, and likely to depart with him is Arati Prabhakar, the top mind…
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This manga publisher is using Anthropic’s AI to translate Japanese comics into English
A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, allowing the company to churn out a new title for a Western audience in just a few days rather than the 2-3 months it would take a team of humans. Orange was founded by Shoko Ugaki, a…
What the departing White House chief tech advisor has to say on AI
President Biden’s administration will end within two months, and likely to depart with him is Arati Prabhakar, the top mind for science and technology in his cabinet. She has served as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy since 2022 and was the first to demonstrate ChatGPT to the president in…
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