Web software firm 37Signals has migrated off the cloud after spending $3.2 million on Amazon Web Services last year, said co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson, who is also the creator of Ruby on Rails. The Basecamp project management software-maker bought $600,000… Continue Reading →

You’d be forgiven for losing track of where we’re up to with Microsoft’s AI chatbot—which, thanks to a partnership with OpenAI, is powered by the same technology you’ll find driving ChatGPT and DALL-E. Originally called Bing Chat and acting as… Continue Reading →

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. From a report: The Times… Continue Reading →

The NYT is suing ChatGPT for ingesting their archive. I understand why they would sue now, for legal reasons, but before they had their own service up, assuming they are developing one, it’s kind of selfish of them to keep… Continue Reading →

“Of course AI is a bubble,” argues tech activist/blogger/science fiction author Cory Doctorow. The real question is what happens when it bursts? Doctorow examines history — the “irrational exuberance” of the dotcom bubble, 2008’s financial derivatives, NFTs, and even cryptocurrency…. Continue Reading →