Roundup: Some tidbits about New Zealand
Read to the end for OpenAI saying the quiet part out loud
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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How artists are fighting generative AI
An interview with Karla Ortiz on how AI image generators are upending the careers of artists
Roundup: Peter Thiel wants a new frontier
Read to the end for a bad NBA AI reveal
Microsoft’s Xbox dilemma
A new strategy is angering fans as Xbox loses the console war and Game Pass fails to take off
The high cost of Uber’s small profit
Workers and customers get squeezed so investors can make off like bandits
Roundup: Feeding the world to computers
Read to the end for a photo of the only kind of Waymo vehicle I approve of
AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped.
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
How to stop a data center
An interview with Sebastián Lehuedé about a community in Chile that blocked Google
Roundup: The trouble facing Apple
Read to the end for a meme about Vision Pro and the metaverse