Cormac McCarthy

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.

OpenAI, Google and other tech companies train their chatbots with huge amounts of data culled from books, Wikipedia articles, news stories and other...

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

Online data has long been a valuable commodity. For years, Meta and Google have used data to target their online advertising. Netflix and...

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

Online data has long been a valuable commodity. For years, Meta and Google have used data to target their online advertising. Netflix and...

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

Stripe, a payments start-up, is one of the most successful companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in a generation. Last year, it hit...

Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week we look at how A.I. is affecting jobs. As companies...

Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand

On Feb. 26, 1998, hundreds of people gathered to watch a total solar eclipse.The crowd gasped as the moon gobbled up the sun....

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global

Cualquiera que trabaje a fondo en las trincheras de internet te dirá que no es una maquinaria bien aceitada que funcione sin el...

Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles

Ford Motor on Thursday delayed the production of at least two new electric cars and said it would pivot to making more hybrids....

TikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing Blitz

In a TV commercial, Sister Monica Clare, a nun in northern New Jersey, walks through a church that’s bathed in sunlight and sits...

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine.It’s a messy patchwork that...

NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon

NASA will be renting some cool wheels to drive around the moon.Space agency officials announced on Wednesday that they have hired three companies...

Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

The C-suite is more familiar with AI technologies than their IT and security...

‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It

On the east side of San Jose, Calif., there is an abuela who seems to have more grandchildren than she can count.“A lot...

Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.

When I temporarily switched from an iPhone to an Android phone last week, I was bracing for a world of hurt. I’ve owned...

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