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At 25, Wikipedia Navigates a Quarter-Life Crisis in the Age of A.I.
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (514+ words) I don't think that we've seen something like this happen in the last seven to eight years or so," Marshall Miller, senior director of product at the Wikimedia Foundation, told Observer. Launched on Jan. 15, 2001, Wikipedia turns 25 today. This milestone comes…...
Dutch Golden Age Treasures from Thomas Kaplan’s Leiden Collection Take Center Stage in West Palm Beach
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (106+ words) Dutch Golden Age Treasures from Thomas Kaplan's Leiden Collection Take Center Stage in West Palm Beach'observer.com We get it: you like to have control of your own internet experience. How Do I Whitelist Observer? Below are steps you can…...
Hinge Debuts A.I. Conversation Starter to Rescue Users From the ‘Dating Apocalypse’
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (337+ words) We've heard from daters that not knowing what to say can hold them back from sending a comment at all," said Jackie Jantos, Hinge's president, in a statement. With Convo Starters, we're easing that pressure." Hinge says the feature was…...
A.I., Data Centers and Climate Impact: How Leaders Are Rewriting the Energy Equation
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (266+ words) Mehdi Paryavi, founder and CEO of the International Data Center Authority (IDCA), examines the global debate over the environmental impact of A.I. and data centers, arguing that the future of climate progress depends on how nations build and deploy their digital…...
Tinder Embraces A.I. to Make Dating More Human, Not More Artificial
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (336+ words) Tinder, the world's most popular dating app with more than 50 million monthly users, could have easily ventured into A.I. companionship'but chose not to. "We thought about it a lot, [but ultimately decided] to help people connect in the real world, human…...
Wikipedia Reports Traffic Decline as A.I. Changes How Users Seek Information
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (436+ words) It's hard to imagine a world without Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that for a quarter of a century has stood as one of the enduring staples of the Internet. In recent months, however, the site's foundation has been shaken by…...
MIT Study Finds Chatbot Love Is Real—and It’s Often Unintentional
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (411+ words) People have real commitments to these characters," Sheer Karny, one of the study's co-authors and a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, told Observer. It's interesting, alarming'it's this really messy human experience." Preserving the personality" of an A.I. partner is…...
Sovereign Data Centers: The Next Digital Power Struggle
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (214+ words) Gartner estimates that by 2028, nearly two-thirds of governments will enforce technical sovereignty rules. Sovereignty is no longer just about security. It is about survival in the global economy. For the past decade, businesses and governments outsourced their digital backbone to…...
Apple’s iPhones Are Now Made in India—Is Tim Cook’s Tariff Headache Over?
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (299+ words) As Apple prepares to unveil its iPhone 17 line today (Sept. 9), the company is widely expected to introduce its slimmest model yet. But that's not the only change in store'this year's new iPhones will also be manufactured in India from the…...
How a Tiny Caribbean Island Cashes in on the Global A.I. Boom
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (479+ words) The economy of Anguilla, a small British territory in the Caribbean, has long relied on a steady flow of tourism. In recent years, however, the A.I. boom has created an entirely new source of revenue for the island'one tied not to…...