What Can A.I. Companies Do to Win Public Trust?

Cardano’s Lace wallet adds key fixes and usability upgrades as the Van Rossem hard fork moves closer to a late June rollout.

Despite initial grand plans for the Stargate project, recent announcements from OpenAI have signaled that it is stalling. The “Hard Fork” hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton predict why that might be the case in their latest episode.

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission. The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in … Read the full story at The Verge.

The agreements with six technology companies come amid the Defense Department’s dispute with Anthropic.

In San Francisco, an A.I. agent was tasked with running a store. The experiment did not go well. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose unpack the story in a recent episode.

This week on “Hard Fork” from The New York Times, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss how this current moment of deep skepticism and suspicion towards the major A.I. companies arose, and the tensions between our democracy and the Silicon Valley elite.

We all read it in the daily news. The New York Times reports that economists who once dismissed the AI job threat are now taking it seriously. In February, Jack Dorsey cut 40% of Block’s workforce, telling shareholders that “intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.” Block’s stock rose […]

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