We start this week with a series of articles from Emanuel about a crackdown in the AI industry. After the break, Sam tells us about the ‘Save Our Signs’ campaign which hopes to preserve the history of national parks. In the subscribers-only section, Jason rants about how AI will not save the media industry. Listen…
I am talking to Amina, an AI avatar that plays the role of a woman living in a refugee camp in Chad after she escaped violence in Sudan. “I’m hanging in there, yeah,” Anima tells me. “ It’s tough here in the camp, but we’re staying strong.” I ask her how she came to be…
Here’s the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York! We answered a bunch of reader and listener questions. Thank you to everyone that came and thank you for listening to this podcast too! SPONSORED Thanks again to DeleteMe, use code 404media for 20% off. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube….
After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs
We’ve survived and thrived for two years and are ready to celebrate with you, the ones who made it possible! Come have a cocktail or locally-brewed beer on us at vertical farm and brew lab farm.one. We’ll also record a live podcast with the whole 404 crew, for the first time in person together since… well,…
DeepSeek, a low-cost Chinese artificial intelligence model, grabbed global attention last month when it stated in a paper that training its DeepSeek-V3 model required less than $6 million in computing power using the lower-capability Nvidia H800 chips. “DeepSeek’s r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price,” Altman said…
Joseph speaks to Michael Bobbitt, a former FBI official who worked directly on Operation Trojan Shield. In this operation the FBI secretly ran its own encrypted phone company for organized crime, backdoored the phone, and collected tens of millions of messages. Michael and Joseph discuss how Michael handled intelligence sourced from the phones, how to…
Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei expressed skepticism about the financing for rival OpenAI’s $500 billion infrastructure venture and called the planned project “a bit chaotic.”
Some of the first reviews ever written for the original Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. have been digitized and published by the Video Game History Foundation. The reviews appeared in Computer Entertainer, an early video game magazine that ran from 1982 to 1990. The archivists at the Foundation tracked down the magazine’s entire…
A user of women’s dating safety app Tea has filed a class action lawsuit after the app repeatedly exposed users’ sensitive data, including selfies, photographs of IDs, and more than a million direct messages sent by users. Both data breaches were first revealed by 404 Media. The plaintiff, California resident Griselda Reyes, “seeks to hold…
