Companies offering free physical services, like cleaning, are collecting valuable data to train AI systems, similar to how internet companies used free services to gather user data.
Beyond the False Choice: How Solar and Agriculture Can Grow Together
Researchers are developing designs for olive groves and vineyards that integrate solar panels to mechanize growth and harvest cycles.
Researchers are developing designs for olive groves and vineyards that integrate solar panels to mechanize growth and harvest cycles.
AI Won’t Optimize Your Company. It Will Force You to Rebuild It
For the past two years, companies have been asking the wrong question: how do we use AI in our processes?
For the past two years, companies have been asking the wrong question: how do we use AI in our processes?
Fast and Curious: Why the Car Is No Longer a Private Space
GM sold driving behavior data to insurance companies, leading to increased premiums for drivers unaware of the data sharing.
GM sold driving behavior data to insurance companies, leading to increased premiums for drivers unaware of the data sharing.
For Years, Big Tech Has Harvested Our Data. Now It Wants Us to Hand Over Our Lives
Agents can perform tasks like scheduling, purchasing, and organizing on behalf of users, going beyond the capabilities of traditional chatbots.
Agents can perform tasks like scheduling, purchasing, and organizing on behalf of users, going beyond the capabilities of traditional chatbots.
As Long as Surveillance Pays, Social Networks Will Remain Toxic
Social media platforms are not social networks but infrastructure for extracting attention and monetizing data.
Social media platforms are not social networks but infrastructure for extracting attention and monetizing data.
Code Is Becoming Cheap, Judgment Is Becoming Expensive
Companies are simultaneously laying off developers while offering high salaries for engineers with AI skills.
Companies are simultaneously laying off developers while offering high salaries for engineers with AI skills.
The EV Revolution Isn’t About the Climate, It’s About the Economy, Stupid
Electrifying transportation reduces oil dependence, saving money and increasing energy sovereignty.
Electrifying transportation reduces oil dependence, saving money and increasing energy sovereignty.
Pope Leo XIV Understands AI as Power. He’s Right. Now He Must Name the Actors Who Wield It
AI is not a neutral tool but an infrastructure of power that influences various aspects of human life.
AI is not a neutral tool but an infrastructure of power that influences various aspects of human life.
Let’s Build a Better Internet, Not a Higher Wall
Australia implemented a rule requiring platforms to prevent minors under 16 from having accounts, facing high fines.
Australia implemented a rule requiring platforms to prevent minors under 16 from having accounts, facing high fines.
Why Are We Still Regulating Teens Instead of Social Media?
The European Commission has been working on this issue for some time, and taking a much more sophisticated approach than a simple ban on under 16s.
The European Commission has been working on this issue for some time, and taking a much more sophisticated approach than a simple ban on under 16s.
Why Are We Worried About AI? The Political Problem Versus the Technological Problem
There’s a mounting contradiction at the heart of AI: the better it gets, the more we fear it.
There’s a mounting contradiction at the heart of AI: the better it gets, the more we fear it.
How Live Nation and Ticketmaster Have Built a Monopoly in Plain Sight and Will Continue Ripping Fans off for the Time Being
To tell this sorry tale properly, we need to go back to the beginning, because it’s about more than endless queuing and crashed websites.
To tell this sorry tale properly, we need to go back to the beginning, because it’s about more than endless queuing and crashed websites.
Here’s an Assignment We Can’t Avoid Any Longer: Reinventing Homework for an AI World
Generative AI exposes the flaws of traditional homework, as students can easily obtain solutions without learning.
Generative AI exposes the flaws of traditional homework, as students can easily obtain solutions without learning.
AI Isn’t Just Changing Work: It’s Rewriting Who Benefits
We’ve known all along that AI was going to transform the world of work.
We’ve known all along that AI was going to transform the world of work.
AI Is Creating the First Generation of Cognitively Outsourced Humans
For years, we have been outsourcing pieces of cognition so gradually that the shift barely registered.
For years, we have been outsourcing pieces of cognition so gradually that the shift barely registered.