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ChatGPT has 800 million users. OpenAI is valued at $500 billion. But our guest today says the whole thing is a scam. Professor Emily Bender, author of “The AI Con” and Director of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory at University of… more ›
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How does a storied consulting firm reflect on its history while forging a path ahead in uncertain times? In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels speaks with host Adi Ignatius about the controversies that have… more ›
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Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation, sits down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang to discuss the future of security, digital rights and the growing precarity of personal privacy in the age of AI at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of… more ›
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Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/maga-marco-rubio-munich-security-conference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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The rapid progress of generative AI has opened tense debates about images. Controversies are occurring on several fronts. Users of Midjourney claim protection for the work they have generated, while photographers are suing platforms such as Stable Diffusion that are… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/WMFoBgp Why are games so deeply engaging? What psychological principles make game design such a powerful tool for shaping attention, emotion, and learning? Game design is not a niche skill. It's one of the most refined disciplines we have… more ›
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Subscribe to XR AI Spotlight weekly newsletter 👉 https://ift.tt/ME56I2p Jesse Schell is the CEO of Schell Games, a team of more than one hundred fifty people with an impressive success streak. Some of their greatest success include games like Among… more ›
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Presented by Jesse Schell from Schell Games, Tommy Palm from Resolution Games, and moderated by Scott Stein from CNET. A new initiative at AWE USA 2025, the AWE Gaming Hub included XR game demos, talks, and networking geared specifically for… more ›
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In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits. https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html more ›