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Is America Finally Improving Its Electric Car Chargers?
U.S. consumers "rank problems with public electric vehicle charging and the time it takes to recharge as their top two reasons for rejecting electric vehicles," writes the New York Times, citing figures from data analytics firm J.D. Power.
But are things getting better?
Automakers and charging com...
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OpenAI Pulls Promotional Materials About Jony Ive Deal (After Trademark Lawsuit)
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI's $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman's device startup io) from its website and YouTube page. [Though you can still see the o...
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How the Music Industry is Building the Tech to Hunt Down AI-Generated Songs
The goal isn't to stop generative music, but to make it traceable, reports the Verge — "to identify it early, tag it with metadata, and govern how it moves through the system...."
"Detection systems are being embedded across the entire music pipeline: in the tools used to train models, the p...
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What if Customers Started Saying No to AI?
An artist cancelled their Duolingo and Audible subscriptions to protest the companies' decisions to use more AI. "If enough people leave, hopefully they kind of rethink this," the artist tells the Washington Post.
And apparently, many more people feel the same way...
In thousands of comments and ...
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Is 'Minecraft' a Better Way to Teach Programming in the Age of AI?
The education-news site EdSurge published "sponsored content" from Minecraft Education this month. "Students light up when they create something meaningful," the article begins. "Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity lies at the heart of the human experience."
But they also argue that "As...
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