
Ethan Zuckerman
Host at Reimagining the Internet
UMass Amherst, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Previously MIT, Geekcorps, Tripod. RT ≠ endorsement, RT = interesting read. He/Him @[email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
ethanzuckerman.com | Ethan Zuckerman
Three days ago, the editor of The Atlantic, a major American news magazine I occasionally write for, revealed that he was inadvertently added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal, in which plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of misbehaviour at Harvard University. In 2003, he built Facemash, which scraped photos from the websites of Harvard’s nine “houses” and invited students to rate whether their peers were “hot or not”.
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2 months ago |
techpolicy.press | Ryan McGrady |Ethan Zuckerman |Kevin Zheng
Ryan McGrady, Ethan Zuckerman, Kevin Zheng / Jan 30, 2025The machine learning models that produce text, images, and video based on written prompts require massive amounts of data. Popular models like ChatGPT may have started small, with public domain ebooks, Congressional transcripts, and freely licensed content like Wikipedia, but the competitive demand for more and more data to build better and better models has led these companies to look elsewhere.
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RT @BKCHarvard: BKC Faculty Associates @evelyndouek and @EthanZ analyze the Supreme Court’s TikTok ban ruling. They warn it sets a preceden…

RT @prospect_uk: It requires a truly Trumpian level of stupidity to blow up the US university system and the economic benefits connected to…

RT @fortuny: “Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality https://t.co/pl08mD4fYX #ideas by @EthanZ