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The Markup wins SABEW Award for Best in Business Journalism

The 18-month-long investigation about how Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner kept rape under wraps won in the ...
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Generative AI is eating culture. See how close it’s getting to disrupting dance

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Dating App Rape Survivors File Lawsuit Accusing Hinge, Tinder of “Accommodating Rapists”

The Dating Apps Reporting Project produced this story in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network and The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, and copublished with The Guardian ...
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Ten answers that could save a life: Organ donation explained

This article is part of “On Borrowed Time” a series by Anissa Durham that examines the people, policies, and systems that hurt or help Black patients in need of an organ transplant. Teenagers aren’t ...
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His students suddenly started getting A’s. Did a Google AI tool go too far?

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During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office

Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. I’m Alex, ...
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The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse

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How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn

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Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing

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ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In

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Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook

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Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless

Technology companies are locked in a frenzied arms race to release ever-more powerful artificial intelligence tools. To demonstrate that power, firms subject the tools to question-and-answer tests ...