Thomas Maxwell

United States

Writer and Reporter at Freelance

Tech Reporter at Gizmodo

business & tech reporter. @businessinsider @gizmodo martha's vineyard times @inputmag @newshour @yalepress. dms open for tips.

Articles

China Bans 'Autonomous Driving' Claims From Car Marketing Following Crash

6 days ago | gizmodo.com | Thomas Maxwell

China has banned automakers in the country from marketing their vehicles with grandiose terms such as “smart driving” or “autonomous driving” following a fatal crash involving a Xiaomi SU7. The car was in driver assistance mode as the vehicle approached a construction zone, but the driver took control only just before the car hit a concrete barrier. Three passengers were killed in the accident.
Wikipedia Is Making a Dataset for Training AI Because It's Overwhelmed by Bots

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Thomas Maxwell

It seems that AI developers have essentially blackmailed Wikipedia into offering up its data for training. On Wednesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it is partnering with Google-owned Kaggleâ€”a popular data science community platformâ€”to release a version of Wikipedia optimized for training AI models. Starting with English and French, the foundation will offer stripped down versions of raw Wikipedia text, excluding any references or markdown code.
Wikipedia Is Making a Dataset for Training AI Because It's Overwhelmed by Bots

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Thomas Maxwell

2 hours agoThe US proved Google ‘willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts.’ The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. The ruling, which marks Google’s most recent antitrust loss …
U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Thomas Maxwell

A bipartisan House committee on Wednesday recommended placing restrictions on the export of AI models to China after concluding that DeepSeek trained its low-cost models using data from OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It also suggested imposing prohibitions on federal agencies procuring AI models from China, which does not seem like something that was going to happen anyway.
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Thomas Maxwell

Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Thomas Maxwell

Discord has begun requiring some users in the United Kingdom and Australia to verify their age through a facial scan before being permitted to access sensitive content. The chat app’s new process has been described as an “experiment,” and comes in response to laws passed in those countries that place guardrails on youth access to online platforms.
U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Thomas Maxwell

1 day agoDr. Son Nguyen is the cofounder & CEO of Neurond AI, a company providing world-class artificial intelligence and data science services. Artificial intelligence technologies are changing faster than ever. What started as tools that could answer questions or generate images is now developing into …
Beijing Responds to Tariffs by Outing Alleged NSA Hackers by Name

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Thomas Maxwell

Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
Beijing Responds to Tariffs by Outing Alleged NSA Hackers by Name

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Thomas Maxwell

China has named three individuals working at the National Security Agency it claims hacked computer systems for the Asian Winter Games earlier this year. The country rarely publishes the names of alleged nation-backed hackers, even though the United States routinely outs actors linked to China. On Tuesday, police in Harbin, where the games took place, named three alleged NSA agents as culprits in the hack—Katheryn A. Wilson, Robert J. Snelling, and Stephen W. Johnson.
Beijing Responds to Tariffs by Outing Alleged NSA Hackers by Name

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Thomas Maxwell

9 hours agoChina halts Boeing jet ordersChinese airlines have been ordered not to take any further deliveries of Boeing aircraft in response to the U.S. imposing 145% tariffs on Chinese goods, Bloomberg News reports. Just before 7 a.m. EST, Boeing's pre-market share stock price was down 3.72%.