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S1S2Here's what's really going on inside an LLM's neural network  Now, new research from Anthropic offers a new window into what's going on inside the Claude LLM's "black box." The company's new paper on "Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet" describes a powerful new method for at least partially explaining just how the model's millions of artificial neurons fire to create surprisingly lifelike responses to general queries.
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S3How Your Business Should Tap into the Creator Economy Creators aren’t just changing marketing. They’re transforming product development, too. Creators can drive demand for specialized products, accelerating product life cycles and even changing what customers actually value. Companies that recognize the power of creators can choose from four strategies, including partnering with creators or acting as suppliers.
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S4Glovo promised Nigerian delivery riders health insurance, then refused to pay up Ayomide Olawuyi, a student at the University of Lagos, began working part-time with food delivery app Glovo in September 2023. It was going well for him until one night in April, when he was hit by a car while making a delivery.
The accident left Olawuyi with a broken arm, and the surgery cost him over 500,000 naira ($340). He contacted Glovo from the hospital — the company had assured him that his medical expenses would be covered under insurance.
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S5We Stood on Both Sides of the New York-Dublin Portal and It Was Glorious The video portal connecting New York to Dublin has reopened, after bad behavior on both sides forced it to close for four days.
The Portal, which initially opened on May 8 to tens of thousands of visitors, was intended to be a âÂÂbridge that unifies and an invitation to rise above prejudices and disagreements,â according to its organizers.
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S6Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go The white colonial revival church with its high steeple adds an idyllic architectural touch to the affluent town of Huntington, a Long Island suburb of New York City. But a sign grabs the eye from the road: "Coworking space," it says. "Kind of like a WeWork. Was a church, but not anymore."
The former church may have been leveled and replaced with condos, had Michael Hartofilis not bought it and repurposed it as a coworking venue called Main Space that opened earlier this year. What was once a sanctuary with a high ceiling has been split into two floors of coworking space, with cubicles, glass phone booths, and minimalist art. Industrial-style beams and modern, geometric light fixtures are juxtaposed with the preserved, intricate crown molding and artisan details that hug the building's windows and doorways.
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S7A Far-Right Indian News Site Posts Racist Conspiracies. US Tech Companies Keep Platforming It In 2017, Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair cofounded the fact-checking website AltNews in India. Almost immediately, the pair were targeted with persistent and vicious attacks from the far-right news website OpIndia. Many of the attacks claimed that Zubair was a Rohingya Muslim who illegally migrated to India and that his cousin was a rapist. In several headlines, the site described Zubair as an "Islamist" spreading fake news.
This wasn't far off from OpIndia's other coverage: In addition to routinely attacking journalists and news sites critical of the government, OpIndia spreads conspiracies and, at times, outright disinformation, particularly about the country's minority Muslim population. Founded in 2014, OpIndia is regularly name-checked by leading lawmakers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the site admits it is funded in part by ads run by the BJP. As hundreds of millions of Indians vote in elections across the country, critics fear that OpIndia's election-related disinformation and overt support of the Modi government could further undermine trust in the democratic process. Already, the website has echoed Modi's widely criticized description of the Muslim vote as "vote jihad."
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S8The Low-Paid Humans Behind AI's Smarts Ask Biden to Free Them From 'Modern Day Slavery' AI projects like OpenAIâÂÂs ChatGPT get part of their savvy from some of the lowest-paid workers in the tech industryâÂÂcontractors often in poor countries paid small sums to correct chatbots and label images. On Wednesday, 97 African workers who do AI training work or online content moderation for companies like Meta and OpenAI published an open letter to President Biden, demanding that US tech companies stop âÂÂsystemically abusing and exploiting African workers.âÂÂ
Most of the letterâÂÂs signatories are from Kenya, a hub for tech outsourcing, whose president, William Ruto, is visiting the US this week. The workers allege that the practices of companies like Meta, OpenAI, and data provider Scale AI âÂÂamount to modern day slavery.â The companies did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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S9Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack--Despite New Keyless Tech For at least a decade, a car theft trick known as a âÂÂrelay attackâ has been the modern equivalent of hot-wiring: a cheap and relatively easy technique to steal hundreds of models of vehicles. A more recent upgrade to the radio protocol in cars' keyless entry systems known as ultra-wideband communications, rolled out to some high-end cars including the latest Tesla Model 3, has been heralded as the fix for that ubiquitous form of grand theft auto. But when one group of Chinese researchers actually checked whether it's still possible to perform relay attacks against the latest Tesla and a collection of other cars that support that next-gen radio protocol, they found that they're as stealable as ever.
In a video shared with WIRED, researchers at the Beijing-based automotive cybersecurity firm GoGoByte demonstrated that they could carry out a relay attack against the latest Tesla Model 3 despite its upgrade to an ultra-wideband keyless entry system, instantly unlocking it with less than a hundred dollars worth of radio equipment. Since the Tesla 3's keyless entry system also controls the car's immobilizer feature designed to prevent its theft, that means a radio hacker could start the car and drive it away in secondsâÂÂunless the driver has enabled Tesla's optional, off-by-default PIN-to-drive feature that requires the owner to enter a four-digit code before starting the car.
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S10One difference with this wave of Arm PCs? All the big PC makers are actually on board Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single time that Microsoft has tried to get Windows running on Arm-based processors, instead of the Intel and AMD-made x86 chips that have been synonymous with Windows for more than three decades. The most significant attempts happened in 2012 with Windows RT, which looked like Windows 8 but couldn’t run any x86 Windows apps; and in 2017 when Windows 10 Arm PCs arrived with rudimentary x86 emulation.
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S11What Happens When Desire Fuels a Life R. O. Kwon's new novel, Exhibit, takes an expansive view of the things that women are punished for wanting.
When we meet Jin, the protagonist of R. O. Kwon's new novel, Exhibit, the 29-year-old photographer is in a holding pattern: For months, she's been incapable of producing a single image she wants to keep. Joining this creative atrophy is a new, existential gulf in her marriage: Philip, her husband, suddenly wants a child, and no part of Jin echoes the sentiment. Such disconnects might prompt a person on the cusp of their 30s to seek the guidance of friends, a therapist, or perhaps religionâtime-honored, if also unexciting, options for someone invested in resolving their personal or marital conflicts. Jin, however, finds herself taking a very different route. Early in Exhibit, she goes from privately nursing her frustrations to sharing them with an alluring stranger. In place of confusion, she begins to feel something that had been eluding her: intense, exhilarating desire.
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S12Ozempic Patients Need an Off-Ramp When patients start on the latest obesity drugs, they find that their food cravings drop away, and then the pounds do too. But when patients go off the drugs, the gears shift into reverse: The food cravings creep back, and then the pounds do too. Within a year of stopping semaglutideâbetter known by its brand names Wegovy or Ozempicâpeople regain, on average, two-thirds of the weight they lost. Tirzepatide, also known as Zepbound or Mounjaro, follows a similar pattern. And so the conventional medical wisdom now holds that these obesity drugs are meant to be taken indefinitely, possibly for a lifetime.
To pharmaceutical companies selling the blockbuster drugsâknown collectively as GLP-1 drugs, after the natural hormone they mimicâthat might be a pretty good proposition. To patients paying more than $1,000 a month out of pocket, not so much. Most Americans simply cannot afford the cost month after month after month.
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S13How Do the Families of the Hamas Hostages Endure the Agony? If you're Hersh Goldberg-Polin's parents, by crusading nonstop for his and other hostages' release.
You may think you know stories like this one, but it's important not to become numb to their evil and horror. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was attending the Nova music festival on October 7 when the Hamas terrorists descended. He and three others rushed to their car and tried to escape by heading north. But the terrorists were shooting drivers on the road, so Hersh and his friends instead sought refuge in a nearby bomb shelter.
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S14The OpenAI Dustup Signals a Bigger Problem A conversation with Charlie Warzel about the unsettling implications of Scarlett Johansson's feud with OpenAI
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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S15Nikki Haley Surrendered, But Not Her Voters Republican primary voters turned to Haley to oppose Trump, and their commitment hasn't changed.
The views of Nikki Haley Republicansâpro-Ukraine, pro-Israel, pro-marketâreflect all those things that Republicans used to think in that bygone era when Reagans and Bushes and Romneys roamed the earth. But few feel any emotional bond to Haley. If she gives a Ted Kennedy style "dream shall never die" speech at the Republican convention in Milwaukee this summer, they won't tear up. They'll wonder what the hell she imagines she's talking about.
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S16You are your body: here's how to feel more at home in it | Psyche Ideas is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Economist and on the BBC. Her interests range from business to science and health, with a particular focus on mental health and human rights. Her work has won a number of awards, and she is involved in training others and facilitating networking. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Imagine looking in the mirror of a clothing store changing room, wearing something that doesn’t quite fit. As you tug at the jeans, your thoughts pull at ideas about what your body should be. Or picture yourself hunched at your office desk for hours on end. Your body is crying out to stretch and move, but you suppress the discomfort and press on. In both scenarios – and many others – you’re talking to yourself about your body as if it’s something separate from ‘you’. So many of us today carry on in this way – ignoring the deep connection between mind and body.
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S17This Tiny Taco Stand in Mexico City Was Just Awarded a Coveted Michelin Star Founded in 1968, TaquerÃa El Califa de León has just four items on its menu, which diners eat while standing elbow to elbow
The famed Michelin Guide helps diners discover the best restaurants in the world by awarding them coveted Michelin stars. Many of the eateries on the list are high-end, fine dining establishments serving expensive, multi-course chef's tasting menus or gourmet à la carte dishes.
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S18How Failure Has Made Mathematics Stronger | Quanta Magazine Reading a math paper is a bit like having dinner at a nice restaurant. The entrée might taste delicious, but it doesn't tell the full story of how it was made. Clever recipes that end up tasting funky don't make the menu; undercooked dishes are (usually) not served to customers. But missteps in both conception and execution are important parts of the process. Danny Calegari, a topologist at the University of Chicago, wants mathematicians to be more transparent about what goes on in the kitchen.
Calegari grew up in Melbourne in a mathematical household. His father taught calculus and his mother statistics at a local technical college. Their bookshelves were filled with textbooks that he and his little brother Frank would browse through for fun.
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S19Why physicists now question the fate of the Universe Ever since we first recognized that the Universe was expanding, one question has dominated the minds of those who study it: how will it all end? Today, we recognize that our Universe began from a much smaller, denser, hotter, and more uniform state: a state that we identify with the hot Big Bang. Over time, that Universe has expanded, cooled, and evolved, but also gravitated: clumping and clustering to form an intricate cosmic web of structure across millions and even billions of light-years. Today, when we use our powerful instruments to look out at the Universe — nearby, at intermediate distances, and to the greatest distances we can measure — we learn what the Universe is made of, and draw conclusions about what its ultimate fate would be.
In the 1960s, we found unambiguous evidence supporting the hot Big Bang. In the 1970s and 1980s, it became clear that our Universe also contained large amounts of dark matter: more dark matter than normal matter, in fact. And starting in the 1990s, we discovered that the Universe — and its expansion rate — were both dominated by dark energy, which behaved as a form of energy inherent to space itself. All of this led us to an astounding conclusion: that based on what we know about the laws of physics and the contents of our Universe, our fate would be to expand forever, with dark energy remaining at a constant energy density for eternity.
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S20How to make unreasonable hospitality your cutting edge advantage Eventually, someone is going to make a better product, or build a better brand, than you have. The way to keep people from switching sides? Harboring a loyal customer base. The way to harbor a loyal customer base? Relentless hospitality.
Famed restaurateur Guidara credits his successful career to what he calls “Unreasonable Hospitality” – also the title of his book – which he achieved by abiding by three main keys: Being present, taking the work seriously (but himself less seriously), and creating individualized customer experiences. By considering how you’re making your customer feel, you’re fostering connections and lifelong memories your patrons will never forget.
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S21New Fed Study Shows Inflation Hitting Parents Hardest of All Inflation remains a leading concern among economists, consumers, and companies--many of which have suffered declining sales as rising prices led budget-minded shoppers to cut spending. New data from the Federal Reserve indicates that parents of children under the age of 18 are having a particularly hard time navigating the continuing inflationary period--a struggle that's prompting some businesses to ease family financial pains with price cuts.
The difficulty one-third of parent respondents said they've had balancing limited incomes with higher living costs is a notable finding in the Fed's annual study. While the recent version of that "Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households" survey found the "72 percent of adults doing at least okay financially was similar to the 73 percent" in the previous poll, those "living with their children under the age 18... doing at least okay financially fell 5 percentage points" to 64 percent.Â
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S22South Korean Tech Leader Calls for Global AI Safety Cooperation South Korea's science and information technology minister said on Wednesday the world must cooperate to ensure the successful development of AI, as a global summit on the rapidly evolving technology hosted by his country wrapped up.Â
The AI summit in Seoul, which is being co-hosted with Britain, discussed concerns such as job security, copyright and inequality on Wednesday, after 16 tech companies signed a voluntary agreement to develop AI safely a day earlier.Â
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S23Recall Sees All: Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature Ignites Privacy Worries It hasn't taken long since the reveal of Microsoft's new Recall feature (as part of its all-in-on-AI plans for the future of the PC) to make people nervous. Designed to help you find information you may have "lost" while working, Recall uses AI tech to keep track of everything you do.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which BBC News describes as the country's "data watchdog," reportedly was "making enquires" with Microsoft mere hours after Recall was announced. A spokesperson for the office said to the BBC that companies are required to "rigorously assess and mitigate risks to peoples' rights and freedoms" before bringing any new products to market." The unspoken part here is that the data watchdog is clearly concerned that Recall may not be safe or good at keeping sensitive user information private.Â
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S24Biden Cancels $7.7 Billion in Additional Student Debt, Affecting 160,000 Borrowers U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.75 million, despite Republican opposition.
Biden, keen to shore up waning support among young people ahead of the November presidential election, had pledged last year to find other avenues for tackling debt relief after the Supreme Court in June blocked his broader plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt.
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S25Apple iPhone Bug "Undeletes" Old Photos. What Happened? Earlier this week Apple released a new software update for its iPhones and iPads--version 17.5.1 of its iOS system. Nothing to see here, you may think, since even the serial numbers of that update show you Apple does this all the time to fix problems and add new features.
But this time, there really was something to see, since the update patched a serious bug that caused some long-deleted images to pop up on users' phones. That's right. They weren't really gone. Consider the contents of your own photo archive for a moment, think about shots you zapped for all kinds of reasons, and you'll how know that's a problem for these affected users.
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S26Airbnb Vet Rao Becomes Anthropic's First CFO Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has hired Airbnb veteran Krishna Rao as its first finance chief, the company said on Tuesday, as it plans to expand its AI offerings and better compete with rivals.
Anthropic is among a series of companies that are building generative AI systems that can create human-like responses and content. Its Claude AI models have vied for prominence with OpenAI's GPT series.
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S27Hims Just Launched an Ozempic Dupe The Hims and Hers Weight Loss prescription kit starts at $79 per month for oral medications and $199 per month for injection-based kits, which could include GLP-1 medicine such as Ozempic, Wegovy, or similar off-brand medication. GLP-1 is a class of weight-loss drugs prescribed by licensed doctors that could suppress appetite and regulate blood sugar.Â
Business owners have contended with the rising popularity of these medications as they relate to their health care plans for employees. Some have been hesitant to add such a benefit to their coverage for many reasons--one of which is the cost. Ozempic, for example, starts at $935 without insurance.Â
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S28Scale AI Raises $1 Billion as Megadeals Come Roaring Back Scale AI, a San Francisco-based startup that builds technology to identify video, text and image data used in the creation of Large Language Models (LLMs), is the latest in a string of emerging companies to land investments worth $100 million or more. On Tuesday, the company announced it netted a $1 billion investment from a variety of investors including Accel, Y Combinator and Founders Fund. The capital helped catapult Scale AI's valuation to $13.8 billion.
Scale AI's CEO, Alexandr Wang, offered Fortune his assessment of the climate for Scale AI and its goals. "I think the entire industry expects that AI is only going to grow, the models are only gonna get bigger, the algorithms are only going to get more complex and, therefore, the requirements on data will continue growing--we want to make sure that we're well-capitalized.".Â
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S29Is Your Team Keeping You Up at Night? Melanie Parish says that many leaders see problems on their team as external without considering the impact of their own behavior on team dynamics. As she says, “There are so many different challenges. They circle. You have one challenge one week, and another challenge another week. That’s the work of leadership.”
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S30A Better Framework for Solving Tough Problems But Anne Morriss offers a different framework. In this episode, she outlines a five-step process for solving any problem and explains why starting with trust and ending with speed is so important for effective change leadership. As she says, “Let’s get into dialogue with the people who are also impacted by the problem before we start running down the path of solving it.”
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