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  • Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think

    Alpaca Sex Is Even Weirder Than You Think

    Just in case you’d like to know: Alpaca sex is weird, biologically speaking. In a new paper this month, scientists have presented evidence that male alpacas impregnate their partners by thrusting their penises all the way up inside the female’s uterus—a tactic not documented with any other mammal species to date. The research was led…


  • Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset ‘Books3′ Offline

    Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset ‘Books3′ Offline

    One of the most prominent pirated book repositories used for training AI, Books3, has been kicked out from the online nest it had been roosting in for nearly three years. Rights-holders have been at war with online pirates for decades, but artificial intelligence is like oil seeping into copyright law’s water. The two simply do…


  • Apple Is Reportedly Making Fast Progress on Its Own ‘Apple GPT’

    Apple Is Reportedly Making Fast Progress on Its Own ‘Apple GPT’

    The AI gold rush is showing no signs of slowing down. As ChatGPT continues to enamour the world with its strings of relatively coherent text, Apple is looking for its piece of the pie by developing its own artificial intelligence engine. Bloomberg’s ever-reliable Mark Gurman reported today that Apple has constructed its own internal infrastructure upon…