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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

It’s useful that the latest AI can ‘think’, but we need to know its reasoning

OpenAI o1, AKA Strawberry, appears to be a significant advance, but its ‘chain of thought’ should be made public knowledge

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The Art of Uncertainty by David Spiegelhalter review – a search for sense in probability and chance

In this timely book, the distinguished statistician shows how simple arithmetic can impose order on the risks that are an integral part of life

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Apple’s new AirPods will make America hear again, but no thanks to the regulator

The tech firm’s federal approval to turn its earbuds into hearing aids is one in the eye for the monopolistic US healthcare agency

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By showing Musk’s X the red card, has Brazil scored a goal for all democracies?

A Brazilian justice ordering the platform to be blocked until it complies with state laws is a first among non-autocratic nations

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Telegram chief’s arrest sends a clear message: tech titans are not above the law

The detainment of the murky messaging service’s founder in France shows the online moguls can no longer act with impunity

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Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves?

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset

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AI cheating is overwhelming the education system – but teachers shouldn’t despair

With adjustments to the way we teach students to think about writing, we can shift the emphasis from product to process

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If Google’s monopoly is broken, it will be good for consumers – and the company too

The tech giant pays billions so that its search engine is the default on our screens, but a US judge has ruled this illegal. Perhaps now we will see innovation

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What opposition to delivery drones shows about big tech’s disrespect for democracy

An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress

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Silicon Valley’s Trump supporters are dicing with the death of democracy

In 2016, some said comparisons between the rises of Trump and Hitler were misguided. But as tech’s titans donate millions, worrying new parallels emerge

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My new iPhone symbolises stagnation, not innovation – and a similar fate awaits AI

Development of ChatGPT and its ilk will plateau, just like it did for smartphones, and then what are we left with? More ho-hum consumer tech

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Google’s wrong answer to the threat of AI – stop indexing content

The search engine’s response to the rise of ChatGPT and its ilk is to take an extremely selective approach to what it considers worthy of attention

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Smartphones are bad for kids – we don’t need to call on scientific data to know it

Jonathan Haidt’s claims about the effects of devices on children’s wellbeing have been criticised for lacking proof, but they tell us what we need to know

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Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield

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Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy

The organisation responsible for monitoring digital falsehoods is reportedly being wound down after pressure from Republicans and conspiracy theorists

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How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

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Look before you scan – the QR code scammers are phishing for business

The proliferation of Quick Response codes has created a cybersecurity nightmare, but public vigilance can help

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Sure, Google’s AI overviews could be useful – if you like eating rocks

The company that shaped the development of search engines is banking on chatbot-style summaries. But so far, its suggestions are pretty wild

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If Scarlett Johansson can’t bring the AI firms to heel, what hope for the rest of us?

OpenAI’s unsubtle approximation of the actor’s voice for its new GPT-4o software was a stark illustration of the firm’s high-handed attitude

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What would Steve Jobs think of Apple’s culture-crushing advert?

Its latest iPad ad, portraying the destruction of artistic tools, is confirmation that company is just another unfeeling, arrogant tech giant

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ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation

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The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end

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Silicon Valley’s business model is incompatible with the moderation of online horror and hatred

Managing the barrage of upsetting material online is a challenge that service providers are struggling to meet, even if they try

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The big tech firms want an AI monopoly – but the UK watchdog can bring them to heel

Microsoft, Meta and Google are snapping up small players in the burgeoning industry – but the Competition and Markets Authority is demanding fair play

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From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction

No one should be surprised that artificial intelligence is following a well-worn and entirely predictable financial arc

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