Technology & Innovation — December 10, 2009

Media News Roundup

Orion Jones

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

The Columbian Journalism Review exposes some Huffington Post trickery.

Variety.com is scheduled to put its content behind a paywall.

While Microsoft and Google have partnered up with Twitter and Facebook for real-time searching, Yahoo will not.

A holiday reading list for journalists.

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Gloved hands holding a computer processor chip, viewed from an angled perspective against a black background.

The Future

AI is now designing chips for AI

AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.

Two Guy Fawkes masks in a pixelated, digital art style with one mask smiling and the other frowning, set against a dark background with faint green patterns.

The Future

Will AI supercharge hacking — if it hasn’t already?

Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

High Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

The Future

Perplexity, Google, and the battle for AI search supremacy

Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?

An AI-generated illustration of a man sitting at a desk, accompanied by thought-provoking poetry.

Thinking

Can AI write authentic poetry?

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

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