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Reece Rogers

AI Detectors for ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know

Is whatever you’re reading written by a human, or is it generated by artificial intelligence? This list of articles will help you understand AI text detection.

The Verge

Emilia David

Yelp’s Assistant AI bot will do all the talking to help users find service providers

Yelp’s new AI releases. | Image: Yelp

As Yelp tries to remind users it’s more than just a place to find a new restaurant to try, it’s launching the Yelp Assistant, an AI chatbot that “contextually” understands what users are looking for and can match them with service professionals in their area.

If you want to replace your bathtub, the chatbot will ask questions like what type of bathtub you want and which features you’re interested in, then suggest a couple of nearby...

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19 Shocking Industry Secrets Customers Aren't Supposed To Know

"You would be genuinely surprised by how many people don't do simple math and get excited by big signs."

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Fast Company

Issie Lapowsky

Millions of Americans are about to lose internet access, and Congress is to blame 

The program helped 23 million people get online, and has always had bipartisan support. So why is Congress allowing funding to run out?

Milton Perez spent more than five years living in New York City’s shelter system before he found an affordable apartment in Brooklyn through a housing lottery. Having a place of his own was a relief for Perez, who is a leader with the Vocal NY Homelessness Union. But it was also a cellular dead zone, and like millions of other New Yorkers—and millions...

Fast Company

Chris Morris

Even amusement parks are using AI: Six Flags announces a digital makeover

The amusement park giant is overhauling its app and website, adding a generative AI ‘concierge,’ automated parking, and mobile ordering, among other conveniences.

Six Flags is aiming to change the way guests interact with its parks—including using artificial intelligence to support those changes.

Fast Company

Nicole Gull McElroy

Magazines aren’t dying—just ask these indie publishers

Indie publications are finding success with an old-school recipe: high-quality print, a tight-knit community, and less advertising.

Earlier this year, Mike Rogge, editor and owner of indie outdoor magazine Mountain Gazette, turned down an ad package that would have boosted ad revenue in 2024 by 20% to 25% per issue. It would have been the magazine’s biggest ad package ever. 

VICE News

VICE Staff

The Very Best of VICE News Reporting

If you had to sum up our news coverage: Awards. Emmys, Pulitzers, Peabodys – you name it, we won it. VICE News and VICE World News transported audiences to the frontlines of stories all over the world and trained a critical eye on what was happening in our own back yards, too. 

Our journalists went deep behind enemy lines to report on white nationalism, extremism, crime, drugs and so many others. They reported from Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the US, often...

Wired Top Stories

Boone Ashworth

The Affordable Connectivity Program Ends Today. Millions of Americans Might Lose Internet Access

The Affordable Connectivity Program—a federal benefit that provides discounts on high-speed internet access to low-income Americans—ends on April 30. Here's what happens next.

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Scott Reyburn

Business as Usual at Gallery Weekend Berlin Amid Oct. 7 Fallout

The annual event brings art collectors to the city, but the spirit of freedom that draws artists there has been damaged by the fallout from the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Ivan Nechepurenko

Georgia Bill Targeting ‘Foreign Interests’ Draws Protests

Opponents of the measure, which resembles a Russian law that Moscow has used to crack down on dissidents, say it could undermine efforts for Georgia to join the European Union.

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Coral Davenport

Biden Administration Moves to Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy

The White House wants federal agencies to keep climate change in mind as they decide whether to approve major projects.

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Stanley Reed and Melissa Eddy

Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy

A subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp, Germany’s venerable steel producer, is landing major deals for a device that makes the clean-burning gas from water.

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Sabrina Tavernise, Sapna Maheshwari, Will Reid, Rachelle Bonja, Rob Szypko, Marc Georges, Liz O. Baylen, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and Chris Wood

The Secret Push That Could Ban TikTok

U.S. lawmakers have long worried that the Chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda.

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Jamelle Bouie

The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators

What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

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Elizabeth Spiers

The Tesla Cybertruck Embodies All of Elon Musk’s Flaws

The Cybertruck looks edgy, that’s for sure, but it has serious problems.

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Ari Berman

How Michigan Ended Minority Rule

Though the notion would have been laughable a decade ago, Michigan is one promising national model for how state-level activists can retake power.

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Wilson Wong

Book Review: ‘Real Americans,’ by Rachel Khong

Rachel Khong’s new novel follows three generations of Chinese Americans as they all fight for self-determination in their own way.

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Robert Ito

How Rachel Khong Conjures Worlds, in Her Books and Beyond

She wrote her much-anticipated second novel, “Real Americans,” while also creating the Ruby, a co-working collective for writers and other artists.

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David Yaffe-Bellany and Cade Metz

Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time

Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.

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Kenny Holston

Inside a Navy Submarine Navigating the Arctic

A Times photojournalist embarked on a nuclear-powered attack sub to see how the Pentagon is training for a potential war below the frozen sea.

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