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Dating App Rape Survivors File Lawsuit Accusing Hinge, Tinder of “Accommodating Rapists”

The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday, citing the Dating App Reporting Project, argues that dating apps could kick off serial ...
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Trump orders crackdown on state AI regulation. Here's why California is hardest hit

Since 2016, California enacted more AI regulations than any other state. The president's new order against such laws worries ...
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During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. I’m Alex, ...
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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse

The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that ...
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Trump Is Creating a Deportation Army of Local Cops

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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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How I’m Trying to Use Generative AI as a Journalism Engineer — Ethically

I’m Tomas Apodaca, a journalism engineer at The Markup and CalMatters. It’s my job to write software and analyze data and algorithms in service of our investigative journalism. I’m an AI skeptic, in ...
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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...
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Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook

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NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law

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The Future of Border Patrol: AI Is Always Watching

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Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English

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