Alex Kantrowitz is a WrapPRO contributor. He’s the founder of Big Technology, a free newsletter and podcast about Big Tech and society. He’s also the author of “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” and a contributor at CNBC.
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AI Employees Should Have a ‘Right To Warn’ About Looming Trouble | Commentary
Reasonable rules allowing employees at AI research houses to warn about impending problems are sensible given the technology’s increasing power.
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Tim Cook’s AI Moment | Commentary
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference: The true test of a great tech leader is guiding a company through a computing shift.
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VC Says ‘Chaos’ Coming for Startups, Ads and Online Business as Generative AI Eats Web
If the web is an infrastructure built on paying and optimizing for referred traffic, what happens when that’s diminished?
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OpenAI Wants To Get Big Fast, and Four More Takeaways From a Wild Week in AI News | Commentary
Ignore the flirty bot, OpenAI’s big strategic play became clearer this week.
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AI’s Next Big Step: Detecting Human Emotion and Expression
Emotionally intelligent bots may soon understand how you feel when you talk to them and reply with empathy. Is this the future?
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Elon Musk’s Plan For AI News | Commentary
Musk emails with details on AI-powered news inside X. An AI bot will summarize news, scanning tens of thousands of posts per story.
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Are LLMs About To Hit A Wall? | Commentary
Throwing more data, compute, and energy at the problem may run its course. What’s next?
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Beware of The Fake Podcast Invite Scam
Legit-looking invites can turn into a nightmare as scammers steal would-be podcast guests’ online accounts during the tech setup.
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Google’s AI Narrative is Starting to Flip
After a rough start, the tech industry is looking at Google’s technical capabilities, resources and silicon, and reassessing its position in the AI race.
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Will Search Be Generative AI or Blue Links? Actually, It’s Both.
The real search battle isn’t gen AI vs. links, it’s when to show each format.
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Can Demis Hassabis Save Google?
The DeepMind founder has a track record of insane AI breakthroughs. Can he do it within the Google mothership?
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Here’s How Google’s Generative AI for Newsrooms Product Will Work
Google wants to help journalists write stories with generative AI. Will it succeed?
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Will Search Engine Traffic Really Drop 25% by 2026, As Gartner Predicts?
Gartner VP Alan Antin on the company’s prediction that search engine traffic is about to fall off a cliff.
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After Elon Musk’s Lawsuit, No More Illusions About OpenAI
The company’s promise of openness didn’t extend far beyond the name. It was a recruiting tactic
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Inside the Crisis at Google
Culture war narratives give Google’s organizational coherence a bit too much credit. There’s more to the story.
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