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+38Humans Still Cheaper Than AI in Vast Majority of Jobs, MIT Finds
Artificial intelligence can’t replace the majority of jobs right now in cost-effective ways, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found in a study that sought to address fears about AI replacing humans in a swath of industries.
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+26Nearly 80% of Americans now consider fast food a 'luxury' due to high prices
Americans say they are scaling back on their fast food intake, and the vast majority considers those on-the-go meals as a luxury due to high prices, a new survey reveals.
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+54Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.
There’s no way to write this article without some people yelling angrily at me, so I’m just going to highlight that point up front: many, many people are going to disagree with this article, and I’…
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+46OpenAI's loss is Microsoft's gain: How the AI race just changed
With Sam Altman, OpenAI's former CEO, and friends landing at Microsoft, the Redmond crew is positioned to take over generative AI. The stock market agrees.
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+47Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
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+25Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions
Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis published June 7 in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability. Researchers suggest that charging carbon emitters with an emission tax could help fund such basic income program while reducing environmental degradation.
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+14Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire 'Alice's Restaurant,' Dead at 83
Alice Brock, the woman who helped inspired Alro Guthrie's 1967 song 'Alice's Restaurant' died in November 2024.
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+52You're never too old to start a business
Whether that's a good idea is another matter.
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+46Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before
Every sub-1,000 stream will still generate revenue for the company — but now, that revenue will not be shared.
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+33Jim Zemlin and the Linux Foundation share not-so-secret open-source sauce
Collaborative innovation has been the group's driving force for a quarter of a century. Or, to paraphrase Lao Tzu, the journey of a thousand open-source programs starts with a single project.
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+48Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO
Less than a month after a handful of small companies forked HashiCorp's flagship IaC software, the Linux Foundation swooped in to support the project. This did not sit right with HashiCorp CEO David McJannet.
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+42The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office Again That Copyright Law Has No Business Obstructing AI Training
A little over a month ago we told the Copyright Office in a comment that there was no role for copyright law to play when it comes to training AI systems. In fact, on the whole there’s little for c…
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+30Sam Anderson on writing and drawing - Austin Kleon
The thing that unites good writing and good drawing — authentic writing and authentic drawing — is the exploratory line.
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+50Pluralistic: Apple screwed us on right to repair (again)
When people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices.
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+34Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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+49Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon
Fertile soil known as Amazonian dark earth is central to the debate over the size and ecological impact of ancient human populations in the Amazon. Dark earth is typically associated with human occupation, but it is uncertain whether it was created intentionally.
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+51Cash App, Square outage: What small businesses need to know
Small businesses, from taco trucks to coffee shops, had to tell their customers they couldn't accept credit cards or e-payments.
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+23OIN expands Linux patent protection yet again (but not to AI)
The largest patent non-aggression community, Open Invention Network broadens its Linux System definition to cover additional open-source and cloud-networking programs.
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+42Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a penny of profit
Epic hoped to scoop up half of all PC gaming revenue back in 2021.
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+53Can you trust 'open source' companies?
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