Rachyl Jones

Rachyl Jones was a New York-based editorial fellow on Coins2Day’s tech desk, where she covered Big Tech, artificial intelligence, and media. Previously, she worked as a media reporter for the Observer. She studied English at the University of South Carolina and earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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Chinese self-driving cars have quietly traveled 1.8 million miles on U.S. roads, collecting detailed data with cameras and lasers

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Panelists including First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and actress Selena Gomez discuss mental health at MTV’s 2022 mental health forum, where the idea for the Hidden Healers Fund originated.

Digital Assets Editor

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The team at Authentic, from left: Saravana Kumar, head of engineering; Cole Riccardi, CEO; and Zeke Scherl, head of product.

Exclusive: Insurance provider Authentic has raised $11 million in Series A funding

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Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, speaks into a microphone.

As AI companies lean on creative industries for training data, artists ramp up their dissent

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Developers criticize OpenAI for disabling the AI voice for ChatGPT that sounded like Scarlett Johansson in ‘Her’

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google IO conference

Google unveils Project Astra chatbot tech and brings ‘AI overview’ to search for all U.S. users

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The AI panic looks a lot like early criticism of electricity. We know how that turned out

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Apple’s China sales tell a different story than what analysts have heard for months. Where is the disconnect?

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Tim Cook smiles and flashes a "peace" sign.

Apple’s promised AI plan is ‘all that matters’, analysts say, as it tries to play catch up with Big Tech rivals

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Satya Nadella says Microsoft’s AI payoff hinges on other companies doing ‘the hard work’ of changing their cultures

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Ted Sarandos flashes a peace sign while wearing a suit.

Netflix will spend ‘vast majority’ of its $17 billion content budget on originals in 2024, despite a deluge of licensed hit shows up for grabs

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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., arrives at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Zuckerberg will meet Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee to discuss cooperation in AI and LG Electronics Inc.’s CEO to talk about joint development of an extended reality headset, according to local media reports. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft earnings will be all about AI and whether one of them deserves to be on the ‘wall of worry’

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Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos arrives for the Film Independent Spirit Awards 39th annual ceremony in Santa Monica, California, February 25, 2024. (Photo by Valerie MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Short-form videos on social media are both a problem and an opportunity for Netflix, co-CEO Ted Sarandos says

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Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don’t come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

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Netflix’s password crackdown has stirred up a wave of subscription revenue that still has a lot of room to run

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