Staff Writer; formerly Technology News Analysis Writer, The Washington Post, The Atlantic
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"The problem is not just the sheer number of things that we have to log in, and the fact that all of them now seem to want two-factor authentication, where they send you the text message or the email or the secret code. It's the pileup of solutions to that problem." Atlantic writer Will Oremus on password purgatory.
AI companies want all the data, everywhere, to make their models bigger and better. That means a lot of questions about piracy and copyright, and at least in one case it means Anthropic systematically destroying countless books just to feed them to the model. The Washington Post’s Will Oremus joins the show to explain how that worked, why Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI and others are doing it, and what the law has to say. Then, Puck’s Julia Alexander helps David figure out whether Netflix is serious about showing movies in theaters, and what theaters need to do to survive in the entertainment busines…
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