Enlarge / The Google “G” logo surrounded by whimsical characters, all of which look stunned and surprised. reader comments 92 On Thursday, Google capped off a rough week of providing inaccurate and sometimes dangerous answers through its experimental AI Overview feature by authoring a follow-up blog post titled, “AI Overviews: About last week.” In the… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 42 Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That meant that searches from Microsoft’s Edge browsers that had yet to change their default providers didn’t work. It also meant that services relying on Bing’s search API—Microsoft’s own Copilot, ChatGPT search, Yahoo, Ecosia, and DuckDuckGo—similarly failed.… Read More »
reader comments 77 On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the social media platform nears the introduction of its initial public offering (IPO), which could happen as soon… Read More »
Enlarge / A World of Warcraft illustration from the Zleague.gg article on “Glorbo.” Zleague.gg reader comments 62 with On Thursday, a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin posted a fake announcement on the World of Warcraft subreddit about the introduction of “Glorbo” to the game. Glorbo isn’t real, but the post successfully exposed a website that scrapes… Read More »
Enlarge / Reddit, a site that is chock-full of humans being every kind of human possible, will start charging larger businesses that want to train their Large Language Model AIs on its data. Getty Images reader comments 63 with Share this story If you’re a business training a large language model (LLM) AI and want… Read More »
Enlarge / An Open Connect Appliance server from around 2013 that a Redditor acquired. reader comments 90 with 61 posters participating Share this story A Reddit user named PoisonWaffe3 recently acquired a 2013-era Netflix cache server that had been pulled from service and wiped for disposal, which marks a rare occasion the public has been… Read More »
Enlarge / The image currently at the top of r/donaldtrump. reader comments 55 with 44 posters participating Share this story On Friday, Reddit joined this week’s response to violent online rhetoric as spearheaded by President Donald Trump and removed its “r/donaldtrump” community, the site’s largest existing community dedicated specifically to Trump. Visiting any of that… Read More »