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Why olive oil girl is TikTok’s main character

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok in the past few days, you’ve probably come across the viral olive oil story. If you haven’t, strap in.

The latest trend on the platform sees people sharing their wildest stories over a slideshow of images of Pepe the King Prawn soundtracked to Like A Prayer. One particular TikTok from the trend was posted by Megan Chacalos (@meganchacalos), who has sinc

This state could be the first to require mental health warning labels on social media sites

California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday.

The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessar

Why Meta shareholders are seeking sanctions for former COO Sheryl Sandberg

Attorneys for Meta shareholders asked a Delaware judge Monday to sanction the company’s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and fellow Facebook board member and current White House chief of staff Jeff Zients for deleting emails related to the

How Big Tech labor organizers aim to unite for Trump 2.0

Donald Trump’s first electoral victory forever changed the culture inside big tech firms. What had been nascent worker organizing efforts turned into mass movements to protest their companies’ politics, environmental practices, treatment of contract workers, handling of harassment cases, and more. Trump’s return to office can challenge efforts to grow the movement beyond fledgling n

In 2025, AI will elevate the CIO role. Here’s why 

AI has already affected the CIO role, and next year will be no different. In 2025, the technology will test CIOs in new ways while also elevating their role as they process the speed at which AI is being adopted—both internally and externally. 

Zooming out beyond the CIO role, AI continues to shape the workforce in profound ways. According to a 

Not so ‘Wicked’ after all. Find authenticity in the era of AI

I recently had the opportunity to see Wicked, the cinematic adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway musical. Directed by Jon M. Chu, this film serves as the first installment of a two-part series that explores the origins of the beloved characters before the events of The Wizard of Oz. While the 1939 classic presents a whimsical adventure centered on Dorothy, Wicked offers a nuanced exploration of Oz’s political and social dynamics, challenging the conventional dichot

How Abeba Birhane is cleaning up AI’s dirty data

One day in 2020, Abeba Birhane found herself on Wikipedia, scouring a list of slurs. At the time, Birhane was pursuing a PhD in cognitive science at the University College Dublin and was trying to see how many of those slurs appeared in the image descriptions for a massive data set that’s often used to train AI systems. 

She had already turned up plenty of matches on the obvious filth, but Birhane was running out of ideas for what to search next. “The reason I went to Wikipedia is

AI for chefs: 8 ways LLMs can make restaurant life a bit easier

Cooking is alchemy, combining two things to create something unexpected. In a way, AI is the same, with unexpected combinations creating new and exciting things. Here’s how alchemists of food and AI can work together, with our eight top tips for chefs interested in AI. 

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4 browser-boosting ChatGPT Chrome extensions

Plenty of people who use ChatGPT get stuff done by hopping between OpenAI’s chatbot and broader web-browsing sessions. But extensions that fuse ChatGPT right into Chrome have resulted in a peanut-butter-and-chocolate moment for AI and web browsing.

To wit, here are four must-have Chrome extensions that will streamline your ChatGPT workflow and boost your productivity in one fell swoop.

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‘I need to know what’s going to be the new app’: TikTok influencers are pitching other platforms to their followers as a ban looms

“Do we think it’s actually gonna happen?” asks influencer Audrey Peters in a TikTok video posted on Saturday, shortly after news broke about an imminent TikTok ban in the U.S. As the clock ticks on the January 19 deadline, many creators like Peters are preparing for the worst. “Anyways, I still very much exist on another place that’s linked in my bio. If you wanna keep in touch, you know where to find me,”


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