This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 4)

Tech OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)Mike Isaac and Eli Tan | The New York Times ...
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X-Wing Alliance Upgrade Mod Revitalizes A Classic In Full VR

Sometimes I forget just how far talented modders can take older games in VR until something like the X-Wing Alliance ...
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Net Zero Banking Alliance shuts down

Following a wave of defections from major banks, the Net Zero Banking Alliance says it is shutting down immediately. Editorial ...
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MobileNetV2 Paper Walkthrough: The Smarter Tiny Giant

Introduction was a breakthrough in the field of computer vision as it proved that deep learning models do not necessarily ...
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Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds

According to new polling data, nearly 80 percent of Americans support extending Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits, ...
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China Is Leading the World in the Clean Energy Transition. Here’s What That Looks Like
Speaking by video at the UN Climate Summit in New York last week, China’s president Xi Jinping laid out his ...
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OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.

Internalized caste prejudice Modern AI models are trained on large bodies of text and image data from the internet. This ...
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Bad Bunny Has MAGA All Worked Up

As Bad Bunny continues to avoid the continental US on his world tour out of fears of ICE raids, news ...
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Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When it comes to tech doomsaying, few are as cynical — ...
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