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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Meta’s Quiet Election | Commentary
Separating politics and social media is a good thing.
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Hands On With Meta’s New Orion Augmented Reality Glasses | Commentary
Meta’s moonshot device arrives. Will this justify the billions of dollars that Meta has spent on its Reality Labs?
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Meet the Editor Who Turned Himself Into an AI News Anchor
Elihay Vidal’s AI avatar looks pretty darn human, and it will read you the latest news from a convincing synthetic media set. But why did he do it?
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Is OpenAI’s New ‘o1’ Model The Big Step Forward We’ve Been Waiting For? | Commentary
The new AI model can reason through really hard problems. Some will see its promise before others.
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AI
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The Russia-Funded YouTuber Story Will Only Get Bigger | Commentary
YouTube has removed Tenet Media, a political network allegedly funded by Russia. But who’s next?
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This Professor Has a Path Toward Human-Level AI. It Isn’t LLMs. | Commentary
Language models powering bots like ChatGPT cannot conceive the physical world. Will the next leap come from teaching AI sensory common sense?
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Surprisingly, Google Is Thriving In The GenAI Era | Commentary
Instead of surrendering to ChatGPT, Google is thriving as dark prophesies around its future haven’t come to fruition — at least not yet.
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The End Of Investors’ GenAI Honeymoon | Commentary
From Goldman to Sequoia, investors are questioning whether the massive investment in AI will ever pay off.
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The AI Revolution Is Meeting Reality | Commentary
A week with Amazon’s AI team revealed enduring optimism, but also a recognition that building effective generative applications takes work.
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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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Tech
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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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