Reddit wants anyone looking to use its public data to make a deal with the company.
"We're going to stay open, but to crawl Reddit or have access to reading content, you need to have some sort of agreement," CEO Steve Huffman told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Why it matters: Publicly available data is becoming increasingly integral to building certain kinds of new AI businesses, such as ChatGPT or Claude.
Teenage gamers say video games help them build problem-solving skills, make friends and collaborate — but they also admit to problems like bad sleep habits and cyberbullying, a new Pew Research Center survey finds.
Why it matters: While moral panic over video games and violence are (mostly) behind us, it's still critical to understand how games are affecting young minds — both for good and for ill.
More of this year's graduating college seniors are seeking the security of a government job, and fewer are applying to risky-seeming tech jobs, per Handshake, the campus recruitment website.
Why it matters: The class of 2024 — which Axios has dubbed "the bummer generation" because of how COVID-19 warped the seminal events of their young lives — just wants stability and a comfortable income, thank you.
Austin cookie delivery firm Tiff's Treats is branching out from chocolate chips to gold bullion.
Why it matters: Riding a wave of global interest in the precious metal, the new initiative is a way for the cookie delivery company to expand its appeal in this Amazon-fueled age of immediate gratification.
Biosecurity experts say AI-driven "biosurveillance" could help spot the next pandemic or biological attack.
The big picture: An initial surge of concern over the threat from AI-generated superbugs and bioweapons has begun to ebb as AI's advantages in biodefense emerge.
Google DeepMind's AlphaFold AI model, which has already revolutionized scientists' understanding of proteins, has expanded its capabilities in a new version released Wednesday.
The big picture: The new AlphaFold 3 can predict what interactions between nearly all of the molecules that form the basis of life look like — and that could open roads to new drugs or more resilient crops.
Why it matters: It's the first Trump-affiliated account on the Chinese-owned app, which the presumptive Republican presidential nominee once sought to ban over national security concerns.
An ad for Apple's new iPad lineup that shows a massive hydraulic press crushing the artifacts of human and digital culture — from beautiful musical instruments to arcade video games — has triggered an online outcry in the 24 hours since its release.
The big picture: Creative professionals and artists — one of Apple's key constituencies — already fear AI's impact on their jobs and our culture. The ad, many felt, made the company look both callous and brutal.
Gaming and communications platform Discord has tapped Stephanie Hess to serve as its first chief communications officer, the company told Axios first.
Why it matters: Hess' hiring comes as Discord tries to reposition itself as a top gaming platform and improve communication with users, parents, game developers, publishers and policymakers about its corporate mission and values.
The nation's cyber defense agency is taking a bigger role in reviewing data that lands on a consequential security vulnerability database.
Why it matters: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has significantly slowed down work on the National Vulnerability Database in the last three months seemingly without much warning or explanation.
Three out of four "knowledge workers" around the world are using generative AI — but many of them are hiding it from their employers, according to a new joint report from LinkedIn and parent company Microsoft.
Why it matters: The 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn reveals that employees across industries are embracing AI, but simultaneously worry it's coming for their jobs.
Autodesk, the venerable 3D software company whose tools are used by designers and architects around the globe, is showing off its most ambitious generative AI project to date: a text-to-3D tool called Project Bernini, demonstrated first to Axios.
Why it matters: 3D design and modeling — an essential part of the modern creative process in fields ranging from architecture and product development to drug research and robotics — is one more realm that's about to face the tidal wave of AI disruption.
