He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
…language models pick up on semantic signals in job application material and embed them down the pipeline into decisions or recommendations. There is proof, even in the world of AI hiring tools…
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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Since Meta announced in March that its account support will be increasingly automated with AI, including for functions like updating your password, hackers found that they could exploit the tool to reset…
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
…Will the user click on it? Is the user likely to convert? Turns out, AI models do a better job at those predictions. I would say that’s the biggest way Gemini…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…Such a move suggests this new smartphone could run Android; however, the Reuters report indicates that Transformer might have an AI interface that would “eliminate the need for traditional app stores.” Generative…
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
…Musk told the court that his concerns about OpenAI straying from its mission to do social good with AI escalated over time, and they finally began boiling over around 2023. “Only recently…
I Test Hundreds of Laptops, and This Is My Honest Advice on What Laptop to Buy
…These are rolling out on other laptops, but Microsoft has yet to announce a refreshed Surface Laptop. My best guess would be an announcement around the Microsoft Build developer conference in early…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…On Tuesday night, open source code platform GitHub announced that it had been breached by hackers in one such software supply chain attack: A GitHub developer had installed a “poisoned” extension for…
When Satellite Data Becomes a Weapon
…The image was an AI-manipulated version of a year-old Google Earth shot from Bahrain—wrong location, wrong timeline, fabricated damage. Open source intelligence researchers debunked it within hours, matching it…
The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer
…a host of new AI-powered features to the mobile OS, including a generative AI widget-creation tool and an improved voice-to-text model that uses AI to cut those “ums…
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
I work as an AI trainer. I assess whether a chatbot’s tone is natural or flat, affected or annoying. I identify patterns in pictures of furniture; search the internet for group…