Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times and the best-selling author of three books, “Futureproof,” “Young Money,” and “The Unlikely Disciple.” His column, The Shift, examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture.hing right now: scale AI across teams, accelerate adoption, and show measurable results.
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission.
The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in …
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This week on “Hard Fork” from The New York Times, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss how this current moment of deep skepticism and suspicion towards the major A.I. companies arose, and the tensions between our democracy and the Silicon Valley elite.
This week on “Hard Fork” from The New York Times, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose talk about polls that show A.I. companies have lost the public trust, and what the companies could do to try to win it back.
We all read it in the daily news. The New York Times reports that economists who once dismissed the AI job threat are now taking it seriously. In February, Jack Dorsey cut 40% of Block’s workforce, telling shareholders that “intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.” Block’s stock rose […]
This week on “Hard Fork” from The New York Times, the hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss the new A.I. model from Anthropic, Claude Mythos Preview.