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At 25, Wikipedia Navigates a Quarter-Life Crisis in the Age of A.I.
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (514+ words) I don't think that we've seen something like this happen in the last seven to eight years or so," Marshall Miller, senior director of product at the Wikimedia Foundation, told Observer. Launched on Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia turns 25 today. This milestone comes…...
How Cloudflare, the Company Powering 20% of All Websites, Suddenly Went Down
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (364+ words) Companies like OpenAI, Spotify and X (formerly Twitter) experienced online outages this morning due to a disruption at Cloudflare, the web infrastructure firm used by roughly one-fifth of all websites globally. The outage, which began around 5:20 ET today (Nov. 18) and…...
A.I. ‘Vibe Coding’ Startup Cursor Nearly Triples Valuation to $29B After New Funding
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (499+ words) Cursor, an A.I. coding tool praised by tech leaders from Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Google's Sundar Pichai, has quickly become indispensable for engineers across Silicon Valley. Investors are taking notice, too: the startup announced today (Nov. 13) that it has raised a…...
Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (397+ words) If the LLM is reading it and the human is not reading it, then we have a problem with the business," said Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, while speaking at the FT Future of AI Summit yesterday…...
Ray Dalio Has Created an A.I. Clone of Himself to Pass on His Wisdom
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (630+ words) Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio debuts "Digital Ray," an A.I. clone designed to share his decades of insights on life, investing and leadership. Since stepping away from the day-to-day operation at Bridgewater, Ray Dalio has devoted much of his time and…...
Wikipedia Reports Traffic Decline as A.I. Changes How Users Seek Information
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) It's hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that for a quarter of a century has stood as one of the enduring staples of the Internet. In recent months, however, the site's foundation has been shaken by…...
Sora Marks OpenAI’s Leap Into Social Media—and Into a Reality Crisis
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (710+ words) Unlike Meta's Vibes or Google's Veo, OpenAI's Sora launches as a standalone A.I. social app'and it's already topping App Store charts. OpenAI's newest video generator, Sora 2, is rapidly reshaping the social media landscape. Released on Sept. 30, the text-to-video model lets users…...
Google Study Shows A.I. Writes Code, But Developers Still Don’t Fully Trust It
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (369+ words) Despite higher A.I. adoption, however, trust in the technology remains low. While most say A.I. makes them faster and more productive, only 24 percent say they trust it "a lot" or "a great deal." Nearly a third admit they trust it "a little…...
Shipping at the Speed of Prompt: What Vibe Coding Changes and Breaks
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (337+ words) Scalability is another challenge. A.I. can make working prototypes, but scaling them for real-world use is another story entirely. Without careful design choices around state management, retries, back pressure or monitoring, these systems can become brittle, fragile and difficult to maintain....
OpenAI Study Uncovers 3 Surprises About How People Use ChatGPT
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (336+ words) ChatGPT is playing a growing role in decision-making at work and at home, according to a new study released this week by OpenAI. Nearly three years after its public debut, the chatbot has become a go-to tool for 700 million people…...