MIT Technology Review
Inside the race to archive the US government’s websites
Since January 20, the new US presidential administration has taken down thousands of government web pages related to public health, environmental justice, and scientific research. The mass takedowns stem from the new administration’s push to remove government information related to diversity and “gender ideology,” as well as scrutiny of various government agencies’ practices. But as government web pages go dark, a collection of organizations are trying to archive as much data and information as possible before it’s gone for good.
These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda
Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be a big influence on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its supporters as the group pursues cost-cutting measures across the federal government. The payment reports have been spread online by dozens of pundits, sleuths, and anonymous analysts
AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/28/2025 - 11:25OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:27Here’s our forecast for AI this year (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 12:49Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media (MIT Technology Review)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 01/14/2025 - 12:48AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
The biggest change to the way search engines have delivered information to us since the 1990s is happening right now. No more keyword searching. No more sorting through links to click. Instead, we’re entering an era of conversational search. Which means instead of keywords, you use real questions, expressed in natural language. And instead of links, you’ll increasingly be met with answers, written by generative artificial intelligence and based on live information from all across the internet, delivered the same way.