Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, Automattic, is reportedly in talks with major AI companies to provide training data from users’ posts. Following the news, both sites now have a policy allowing users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties.

Cornell Tech

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Frank Pasquale, professor at Cornell Tech, is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms and machine learning. He said New York City is good to be engaging with AI responsibility on this level.

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New York City

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Apple is set to begin taking orders for the Vision Pro on Friday. The base configuration of the headset will cost $3,499.

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People can now talk to and have a conversation with OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The company says it can generate human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.

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Computing & Information Sciences

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The Supreme Court heard a pair of cases that will influence the future of online speech and the limits of future tech regulation.

Law and Policy

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Nina Bassuk, emeritus professor and director of the Urban Horticulture Institute, and Alexander Kobald, associate director of the Design Across Scales Lab, comment on the growing global movement to plant more trees in cities.

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Mor Naaman, professor of information science at Cornell University and associate dean at Cornell Tech, researches the trustworthiness of our information ecosystem. He says the technology is – as usual – racing ahead with no guardrails.

Cornell Tech

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Alexander Kobald and Nina Bassuk discuss the considerations that are needed before New York begins planting trees to meet its 2033 goal.

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New York City

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Some Twitter users will start being able to click a button on the social media service to edit a tweet after they have posted it.

Computing & Information Sciences

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