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GOP congresswoman’s vile pet project left out of House rules

It looks like the transphobic tirade of Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, was all for naught, as her proposed bathroom ban was excluded from Republicans’ House Rules...

Cartoon: Winter reading pile

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Fox News host’s description of Jan. 6 rioters will make your blood boil

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy described the insurrectionists who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,...

Bernie Sanders has some thoughts on the MAGA civil war

The right’s debate over the H-1B visa program has exposed cracks in the MAGA world, with Elon Musk...

Menendez seeks lenient sentence, saying he’s now a ‘national punchline’

Lawyers for former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez are urging a judge to be lenient at his sentencing later this...
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Why watermarking AI-generated content won’t guarantee trust online

In late May, the Pentagon appeared to be on fire.  A few miles away, White House aides and reporters scrambled to figure out whether...

The Download: political AI models, and a wrongful arrest

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI language...

Why it’s impossible to build an unbiased AI language model

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here....

AI language models are rife with political biases

Should companies have social responsibilities? Or do they exist only to deliver profit to their shareholders? If you ask an AI you might get...

The Download: Worldcoin under investigation, and food’s complex climate future

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Worldcoin just...

Worldcoin just officially launched. Here’s why it’s already being investigated.

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your...
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