🤔 AI in Newsrooms: The Z League Revelation
PLUS: Tech Titans in Healthcare: The Whys and Wonders, AI Companies and Safeguards: A Voluntary Landscape, and more...
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What should newsrooms do with AI? Recently some gamers on a World of Warcraft forum noticed that a website called Z League is publishing articles that appear to be based on popular Reddit threads about the game. (Casey Newton / Platformer)
A partial list of the bread-and-butter posts of today’s digital media companies that, I think, are about to be automated away by mediocre AI tools - Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)
Hey Tech, It's Time To Build. In Healthcare In the past few months, the founders of Instacart, Spotify, and Coinbase have all started new healthcare companies. This may seem odd to some–why are these seasoned tech founders jumping into tech-driven healthcare? (Daisy Wolf / a16z)
It's time to put our tech skills to work and try to fix healthcare in 2023 - a16z (@a16z)
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7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the… (Michael D. Shear / The New York Times)
Self-regulation & "voluntary commitments" will *not* protect us from the threats posed by A.I. - Pat de Brún (@patdebrun)
EV battery plants emerge as wildcard issue in UAW contract talks Multibillion-dollar EV battery plants are crucial to the automotive industry's future and uniquely positioned to have wide-ranging implications. (Michael Wayland / CNBC)
EV battery plants emerge as wildcard issue in UAW contract talks - Joey Confrey (@RealJoeyConfrey)
Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption's Opponents Are Still Wrong When I contemplate the return of the crypto wars—attempts to block citizens' use of encryption by officials who want unfettered spying powers—I look back with dread on the late Middle Ages. (Steven Levy / WIRED)
When finished my book Crypto (2001) I thought the war between encryption providers and the doom-mongering authorities had reached a truce. - Steven Levy (@StevenLevy)
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