A judge ruled that John Deere must face a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and five states over its tractor and agricultural equipment repair monopoly, and rejected the company’s argument that the case should be thrown out. This means Deere is now facing both a class action lawsuit and a federal antitrust lawsuit over…
We’ve been covering the technological infrastructure powering Trump’s mass deportations for months by this point. We believe there is a high public interest in knowing what tech companies are working with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), what surveillance capabilities are being used, and how those may contribute to a lack of due process. Because ICE…
Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to…
The AI industry was rocked in recent days with the release of an open source AI model from Chinese start-up DeepSeek that can compete with the best AI models from U.S. companies despite purportedly costing just $6 million to train. While cheap, powerful AI models are a great thing for companies looking to deploy AI,…
Attackers aim to steal people’s personal and payment-card data in the campaign, which dangles the threat of an undelivered package and has the potential to reach organizations in more than 50 countries.
A sea change in available data fuels fresh insights from the first half of 2024
A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” The research,…
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that broke ice, broke hearts, and broke out the libations. Also, if you haven’t seen it already, we just covered an amazing breakthrough in our understanding of the cosmos, which is as much a story about humanity’s endless capacity for ingenuity as it is…
Monday’s more than $500 billion loss for Nvidia followed panic surrounding DeepSeek’s AI model running on far less of Nvidia’s coveted GPUs than its American counterparts.
Two members of Congress have launched a formal investigation into automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock and demanded it turn over details of all searches of its national camera network concerning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and abortions. The move comes after 404 Media revealed that local cops were…
