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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-23 21:42:02

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A century of “shrill”: how bias in technology has hurt women's voices.
newyorker.com/culture/cultural…

A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices
Tina Tallon writes about how gendered technological bias and failures in the design of audio technology have affected how women’s voices are perceived in society.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 14:20:38

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
technologyreview.com/2026/01/2

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models  
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

@jkohlmann@mastodon.social
2026-01-23 02:23:22

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. washingtonpost.com/technology/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2026-02-24 06:40:41

"Briggs and his Goldman Sachs colleagues recently said that investment spending on AI made “basically zero” difference in U.S. economic growth last year."
As Robert Solow was saying ...
washingtonpost.com/technology/

This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage.
Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-23 00:40:38

US farmers are increasingly rejecting multimillion-dollar offers from data center developers; some estimate ~40K acres are needed globally for new AI projects (Niamh Rowe/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/technology/202

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-23 05:15:38

Palantir won a three-month, £30K /week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/technology/202

Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 17:26:04

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technol

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 00:25:46

TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technol

TikTok Strikes Deal to Split Off an American Version, Ending Long Legal Saga
The Chinese parent company for the popular video app said it had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new American TikTok to avoid a ban in the United States.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 11:45:40

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technol

Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 12:41:06

How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a "China shedding" strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/23/busines

After TikTok Deal, Chinese Firms Search for a New Global Path
Chinese firms must contend with geopolitical tensions and mistrust to do business in the United States. Some are choosing to avoid the U.S. altogether.