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A Crowdstrike office is shown in Sunnyvale, Calif., on Friday, July 19, 2024. An overnight outage was blamed on a software update that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike sent to Microsoft computers of its corporate customers including many airlines. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

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Tech disruptions sparked by software update highlight the fragility of globally connected technology
By MATT O'BRIEN - AP Technology Writer
Fri,07/19/24-11:35AM , 103 Reads
Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches.
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Nick Gage, left, poses with his longtime friend Nicholas Basbanes, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Grafton, Mass. Authors and retired newspaper journalists Gage and Basbanes decided to sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft when they found out that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word'
By MATT O'BRIEN - AP Technology Writer
Thu,07/11/24-10:56AM , 85 Reads
GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot.
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Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar poses on May 21, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. Chandrasekar said the company is trying to balance rising demand for instant chatbot-generated coding assistance with the desire for a community "knowledge base" where people still want to post and "get recognized" for what they've contributed. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)

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AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?
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Tue,07/02/24-10:12AM , 122 Reads
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Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center on Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

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AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
By MATT O'BRIEN - AP Technology Writer
Thu,06/06/24-8:31AM , 107 Reads
Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online.
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