The Digital Signature

Follow these tips to produce stronger writing that stands out on the web even in the age of AI and ChatGPT.

Despite recent warnings that generative AI is overhyped, new data from Pew Research Center shows a rapid increase in the number of people who have used ChatGPT at work.

Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media.

Companies will no longer be allowed to use software checks to verify replacement parts in a major step forward for the right-to-repair movement.

Amazon listings for low-cost tech products can send shoppers down a rabbit hole of weird brand names, duplicate listings, and suspect reviews. Data from Fakespot shows bug zappers are ascendant.

A US judge has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, one-time crypto wunderkind, to 25 years behind bars.

Vice President Kamala Harris says new rules for government AI deployments, including a requirement that algorithms are checked for bias, will “put the public interest first.”

Closing the city’s seaport will send shockwaves across global shipping. Supersize container ships pose a growing risk to bridges and other infrastructure when things go wrong.

Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2.

A jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.”