The Digital Signature

The OpenAI CEO’s recent mini-manifesto argues (again) that AI will make the future impossibly bright. He could use a refresher course on the basics of human behavior.

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

New Chinese regulation attempts to define how AI content labeling should work and stamp out AI-generated disinformation.

Workers have been sharing videos alleging the precarious working conditions that have allowed the Chinese ecommerce giant to target unstoppable growth.

As Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon, eerie messages have been arriving on the phones of civilians on both sides of the border, with authorities in each country accusing the other of psychological warfare.

Extended hours after the pandemic have put pressure on pilots in India, who are working longer hours without rest, but monitoring technology to help curb overworking is glitchy and hard to find.

At Meta’s Connect developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off Orion, a futuristic pair of smart glasses that the company hopes will lead the next foundational shift in personal computing.

In a letter to the OpenAI team posted on X, Murati wrote that “this moment feels right” to step down.

Meta’s AI assistants can now talk and see the world. The company is also releasing the multimodal Llama 3.2, a free model with visual skills.

A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way.