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Layoffs have already come for tens of thousands of tech workers this year, and more are on the way. For the workers who remain, their work is increasingly about training AI models and justifying the massive investments corporations have made in the technology. No better time than now to unionize the workforce, don’t you think? Unions in tech are rare (to be fair, they’re unfortunately rare everywhere). And while their absence is often attributed to the big

Just days after Meta pulled support for encrypted direct messages on Instagram, the tech giant is now rolling out a new private AI chat feature. Meta announced on Wednesday that its new Incognito Chat feature will let users interact with its AI chatbot on WhatsApp and the Meta AI app in what the company describes as a secure environment. The social media giant is pitching the feature as a way for users to feel free to discuss sensitive topics like health,

How would you like it if, when stumped or just in need of some help with an unfamiliar situation, your doctor consulted a free, ad-supported AI chatbot? That’s not actually a hypothetical. They probably are doing that, a new report from NBC News says. It’s called OpenEvidence, and NBC says it was “used by about 65% of U.S. doctors across almost 27 million clinical encounters in April alone.” An earlier Bloomberg report on OpenEvidence from seven months ago

New polling from Gallup shows that Americans really, really don’t like AI data centers being constructed in their neighborhoods. How much do they hate the rise of AI infrastructure? More Americans say they oppose data centers being built near them than oppose nuclear power plants in the same area. A whopping 71% of Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area, according to Gallup, with 23% somewhat opposed and 48% strongly opposed. Just

Apple has made it clear that it plans on opening up its AI relationships. OpenAI isn’t taking it well. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the partnership between the two companies has become strained lately, and OpenAI is looking at its legal options—as if the company hasn’t spent enough time in court lately. Whether there’s a case for OpenAI to pursue is an open question, but it is pretty clear from the report that the company has found Apple to be a p

A pseudonymous user on X claims he regained access to 5 bitcoin he had lost for more than a decade after forgetting the password—and it was Anthropic’s Claude chatbot that put all the pieces of the puzzle together for him. After feeding the model files from an old college laptop and attempting to guess trillions of passwords with the assistance of a few different tools, Claude delivered the final breakthrough that unlocked the wallet. According to an inter

There’s this certain category of human work that economists clearly want to put in a horrible basket marked “not worth paying for because AI can do it.” This group includes some outliers—model, for instance—but it’s mainly jobs in customer service, sales, administration. Many of these jobs are done from a desk, and involve interfacing between people and systems. There’s real data now about what’s happening to these jobs in the AI era, and the trend is not

Goooooooood morning, blog readers! You’re listening to the KGIZ morning zoo with your hosts, AI and The Bot. Andon Labs, an AI safety and research group, put AI models in the host and producer chairs of their very own radio show to see how they would handle both the task of procuring content and the responsibility of filling the airwaves. As you might expect, the experiment did not provide any reason to think that radio will make a comeback with AI hosts (

Here’s a rare news event that hasn’t occurred in, gosh, a week: a university commencement speech was greeted with hostility because the speaker praised AI. 404 Media got the footage: In fairness, the speaker, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at least trying to thread the needle, vaguely empathizing with students. “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the