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Economy
Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family
Enlarge (credit: Google) On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights…
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Economy
ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI’s AI assistant, flooding…
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Investing
Rating the Presidents
David Boaz Sigh. Another year, another ranking of presidents. And as usual the academics who vote in such surveys especially…
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Investing
The News Media Face an ‘Extinction-Level Event’
Paul Matzko AI’s take on an extinction‐level event. (Microsoft Copilot) Journalism has been in palliative care for quite some time…
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Economy
After years of losing, it’s finally feds’ turn to troll ransomware group
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) After years of being outmaneuvered by snarky ransomware criminals who tease and brag about each new…
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Investing
Good and Bad Critiques of the Trump Civil Fraud Verdict
Walter Olson On Friday, New York Judge Arthur Engeron found Donald Trump and officials of his Trump Organization to have…
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Investing
Lawmakers Navigate Licensing Law Hurdles So Patients Can Benefit from Social Workers
Jeffrey A. Singer Behavioral health providers can deliver effective mental health services using telehealth technology. Yet state licensing laws block…
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Economy
Will Smith parodies viral AI-generated video by actually eating spaghetti
Enlarge / The real Will Smith eating spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. (credit: Will Smith / Getty Images…
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Economy
LockBit ransomware group taken down in multinational operation
Enlarge (credit: Rob Engelaar | Getty Images) Law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency have…
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Investing
Federal Bureaucrats Are Wrong About West Virginia Higher Education Funding
Krit Chanwong and Marc Joffe The federal government has accrued massive deficits in the last two decades. Yet it often…
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