Jacob Ward
Tech journalist // Frmr @NBCNews, @AlJazeeraEnglish, @PopSci editor-in-chief // Author of “The Loop: How AI is Creating a World without Choices”
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2 months ago |
theripcurrent.substack.com | Jacob Ward
The stocks of the big AI companies cratered this morning, and it really screwed up my day. I had a loose and experimental meditation all written up and ready for you about the importance of anticipating the unanticipated, but I had to shelve those hippie ramblings once news broke that Wall Street is punishing American AI giants like Meta and Microsoft. Why are those companies suddenly worth hundreds of billions of dollars less?
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Mar 7, 2024 |
cnbc.com | Bella Aldrete |Jacob Ward |Emily Pandise
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses a speech during a meeting, at the Station F in Paris on May 26, 2023. Joel Saget | AFP | Getty ImagesTech firms and Silicon Valley billionaires have been pouring money into nuclear energy for years, pitching the sustainable power source as crucial to the green transition. Now they have another incentive to promote it: artificial intelligence.
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Mar 7, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Bella Aldrete |Jacob Ward |Emily Pandise
Middle East5 hours agoSaudi Arabia’s First Male Robot Sparks Outrage For Inappropriately Touching Female Reporter During Live InterviewMashable - Omair Pall • 5hThe debut of Saudi Arabia's first male humanoid robot, 'Muhammad', at the DeepFast event in Riyadh has stirred quite a debate following an incident involving a female news reporter during the unveiling.
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Feb 6, 2024 |
mitpress.mit.edu | Jacob Ward
Description Praise Open Access Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the rise of neoliberalism and deregulation.
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Jan 19, 2024 |
inventright.com | Jacob Ward
With artificial intelligence (AI) usage accelerating exponentially across industries, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a gold rush to stake IP claims in this dynamic landscape. Companies are scrambling to file patents on machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing and other AI-driven technologies.
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My Dad grew up in Chicago and India, and his very unusual upbringing led to a career studying slavery, colonialism, and the general horrors of racism. So I asked him what he thinks of the current moment, when all of history is under attack. Watch at https://t.co/g6chvRnB5T! https://t.co/AMysdrefYa
"The Moment We Gave it All to A.I." is about a fateful court decision 15 years ago that could have protected creativity against artificial intelligence...but wound up handing it over instead. Read and subscribe at https://t.co/g6chvRn3gl. https://t.co/yukCHplc6G
A look at the scams that are about to come your way now that the CFPB is under attack, and a look inside the utter madness of accusing the CFPB of waste, much less criminality. Watch the whole thing on YT and read a deep dive at https://t.co/g6chvRn3gl! #cfpb #scams #politics https://t.co/Fj4NAxl6hd