Category: Technology

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Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

Airbnb said this week that it was banning the use of all indoor security cameras in its listings worldwide, an

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Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?

As online dating became as easy as swiping a finger across your phone screen, the companies who own apps like

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Despite Trump’s Opposition to TikTok Ban, House Moves Ahead With Bill

House Republican leaders are moving this week to pass legislation that would force the Chinese owners of TikTok to sell

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Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies

Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives

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Workers at Microsoft-Owned Activision Vote to Unionize

About 600 workers at Activision Publishing, the video game maker owned by Microsoft, are unionizing, forming the largest video game

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Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.

“The really striking thing about Musk is the disjuncture between his outsized public persona, and his very, very minimal philanthropic

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BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles

As BMW car bodies glided down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered by sparks from robotic welders, it was

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Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort to Prevent A.I. Bioweapons

Dario Amodei, chief executive of the high-profile A.I. start-up Anthropic, told Congress last year that new A.I. technology could soon

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Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster

More than three months after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted Sam Altman, the chief executive of the high-profile artificial

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Mark Wahlberg’s Prayer App Seeks Followers on TikTok

Religious content has long been a mainstay on social media, where Christian influencers can garner millions of views. And much

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Chinese National Accused of Stealing AI Secrets From Google

A Chinese citizen who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California has been charged with

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The Youths Have Spoken: Wallets Are Uncool. Go Digital.

To a growing number of youths, a wallet stuffed with cash and cards is as unfashionable as the millennial tuck,

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Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

Shafiqah Hudson was looking for a job in early June of 2014, toggling between Twitter and email, when she noticed

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Tesla Halts Production in Germany After Suspected Arson Attack

Tesla was forced to halt production at its assembly plant outside Berlin early Tuesday after someone set fire to a

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Microsoft Seeks to Dismiss Parts of Suit Filed by The New York Times

Microsoft filed a motion in federal court on Monday that seeks to dismiss parts of a lawsuit brought by The

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How Regulations Fractured Apple’s App Store

Since introducing the App Store in 2008, Apple has run it largely the same way across 175 countries, right down

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What Elon Musk and Sam Altman Said About Each Other

What Mr. Musk has said about Mr. Altman Post on X, in November: “What matters is having directors who deeply

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DeSantis Vetoes Florida Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday vetoed a sweeping social media bill that would have effectively barred Florida residents under the

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Why Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft

When Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, for breach of contract on Thursday, he turned claims

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The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit

It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes. Mr. Musk sued

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Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman for Violating the Company’s Principles

OpenAI, the influential artificial intelligence company that ousted and then reinstated its high-profile chief executive three months ago, faces a

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Gemini’s Culture War, Kara Swisher Burns Us and SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Google removed the ability to generate images of people

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S.E.C. Is Investigating OpenAI Over Its Board’s Actions

The Securities and Exchange Commission began an inquiry into OpenAI soon after the company’s board of directors unexpectedly removed Sam

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Digital Media Outlets Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

The media outlets Raw Story, Alternet and The Intercept sued OpenAI for copyright infringement on Wednesday, adding to a growing

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Behind Apple’s Doomed Car Project: False Starts and Wrong Turns

For the last decade, many Apple employees working on the company’s secretive car project, internally code-named Titan, had a less

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Biden Issues Executive Order to Restrict Personal Data Sales to China and Russia

President Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday seeking to restrict the sale of sensitive American data to China, Russia

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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction

Since Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud last year, he has hired a new lawyer known for courtroom showmanship. A

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Instagram and Facebook Subscriptions Get New Scrutiny in Child Safety Suit

The New Mexico attorney general, who last year sued Meta alleging that it did not protect children from sexual predators

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Why Microsoft Has Accepted Unions, Unlike Its Rivals

The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough. Managers

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Supreme Court to Consider Social Media Laws From Texas and Florida

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a pair of cases that could fundamentally change discourse on the

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AT&T Offers $5 Credit After Widespread Service Outage

AT&T will offer a $5 credit to customers affected by a widespread outage on Thursday that was caused by technical

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What to Know About the Supreme Court Case on Free Speech on Social Media

Social media companies are bracing for Supreme Court arguments on Monday that could fundamentally alter the way they police their

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Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on the Path From Chatbots to A.G.I.

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week’s episode is a conversation with Demis Hassabis,

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Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media I.P.O. in Years

Reddit, the community-focused message board site, filed to go public on Thursday, paving the way for it to be the

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Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site

On a recent Wednesday in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, Mosheh Oinounou, a former producer for CBS, Bloomberg News and Fox News,

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Nvidia Earnings Show Soaring Profit and Revenue Amid AI Boom

Nvidia, the kingpin of chips powering artificial intelligence, on Wednesday released quarterly financial results that reinforced how the company has

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When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You

For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space. They feared satellites powerful enough to zoom in on

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Volkswagen Sees Electric Vehicles as a Way to Grow in the U.S.

Probably only Americans of a certain age remember when the Volkswagen Beetle was the best-selling imported car in the United

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Inside the Funding Frenzy at Anthropic, One of A.I.’s Hottest Start-Ups

Last May, Anthropic, one of the world’s hottest artificial intelligence start-ups, raised $450 million from investors including Google and Salesforce.

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U.S. Awards $1.5 Billion to Chipmaker GlobalFoundries

The Biden administration on Monday announced a $1.5 billion award to the New York-based chipmaker GlobalFoundries, one of the first

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Plans to Expand U.S. Chip Manufacturing Are Running Into Obstacles

In December 2022, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the key maker of the world’s most cutting-edge chips, said it planned to

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‘Most Wanted’ Man Pleads Guilty in Cyberattack That Upended Vermont Hospital

A Ukrainian man pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to his leadership role in two cyberattack schemes that caused

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Facial Recognition in Airports: Biometrics Technology Is Expanding

On a recent Thursday morning in Queens, travelers streamed through the exterior doors of La Guardia Airport’s Terminal C. Some

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SpaceX Launches Intuitive Machines Nova-C Moon Lander

Another month, another try at the moon. A robotic lunar lander launched into space early Thursday morning. If all goes

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The Antitrust Enforcers Aimed at Big Tech. Then Came the Backlash.

The South Korean government unleashed a wave of panic across the internet industry: The country’s antitrust regulator said it would

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OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion

OpenAI has completed a deal that values the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly tripling

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The State of A.I., and Will Perplexity Beat Google or Destroy the Web?

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube A year ago, a chatbot tried to break

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U.S. Disrupts Hacking Operation Led by Russian Intelligence

The F.B.I., working with other countries, disrupted a Russian hacking operation that infiltrated more than 1,000 home and small-business internet

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Elon Musk Says SpaceX Has Switched Incorporation to Texas

The private rocket company SpaceX has switched where it is incorporated to Texas from Delaware, its founder, Elon Musk, said

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Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on X, Report Says

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is potentially violating U.S. sanctions by accepting payments for subscription accounts

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SpaceX Postpones Launch of Intuitive Machines Nova-C Moon Lander

Another month, another try at the moon — but not on Wednesday. SpaceX announced the postponement on Tuesday night of

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OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT a better memory. The San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up said on Tuesday that it was releasing

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Google Retires A.I. Chatbot Bard and Releases Gemini, a Powerful New App

First, there were talking digital assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. Then there were online chatbots like ChatGPT and

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It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.

A gaggle of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh traveled to Florida last month during their winter break. The

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When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See

In the darkest moments of a family tragedy, when the playwright Mona Pirnot couldn’t find the strength to verbalize her

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Imran Khan Uses A.I. To Give Victory Speech in Pakistan

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has spent the duration of the country’s electoral campaign in jail, disqualified from running

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Hard Fork: Bluesky’s Big Bet, and Are Deals Dead in Silicon Valley?

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Bluesky, the Twitter spinoff, is now open for public

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The Friar Who Became the Vatican’s Go-To Guy on A.I.

Before dawn, Paolo Benanti climbed to the bell tower of his 16th-century monastery, admired the sunrise over the ruins of

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This Couple Used an A.I. Lip-Dubbing App to Bridge a Language Gap

Mr. Romero visits Ms. Ochoa in Mexico about once a month. But when they’re apart, the A.I.-powered app transports Ms.

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Does Technology Rule Our Sex and Dating Lives?

While the pitch for products like Lovense and WeVibe, another popular brand of remote controlled vibrators and stimulation rings, might

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Google Joins Effort to Help Spot Content Made With A.I.

Google, whose work in artificial intelligence helped make A.I.-generated content far easier to create and spread, now wants to ensure

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F.C.C. Bans A.I.-Generated Robocalls – The New York Times

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday outlawed unwanted robocalls generated by artificial intelligence, amid growing concerns over election disinformation and

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Apple Vision Pro Review: First Headset Lacks Polish and Purpose

About 17 years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at a San Francisco convention center and said he was introducing

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Two Cases Aim to Cut Off China and Iran From U.S. Technology

The U.S. government announced charges in two separate cases on Wednesday aimed at enforcing laws blocking the transfer of critical

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Vision Pro Goggles are not Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says

Videos being shared across social media this week depict an almost dystopian, futuristic scene: drivers of Teslas in Autopilot mode

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Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs

When Diane Hirsh Theriault’s co-worker returned from lunch to Google’s Cambridge, Mass., office one afternoon in October, his work badge

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Tucker Carlson’s Visit to Russia Draws Speculation of Putin Interview

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who now has a show on the social network X, has been spotted

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Snap Lays Off 10% of Its Work Force

Snap, the parent of the Snapchat messaging app, said on Monday that it would lay off more than 500 employees,

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Amazon Introduces Rufus, an AI Shopping Tool, and Reports Earnings

Amazon entered the consumer chatbot fray on Thursday, announcing a new artificial intelligence personal shopping assistant as the company races

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How A.I. Is Remodeling the Fantasy Home

I was scrolling through Instagram recently when I found a new page slipped into my feed through a suggested post:

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How to Quit Your Smartphone

Last May, Fabuwood, a kitchen cabinet manufacturer in Newark, instituted a new company policy: No phones allowed during meetings. To

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Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine

On a sweltering July evening, the din from thousands of computers mining for Bitcoins pierced the night. Nearby, Matt Brown,

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How X Is Trying to Win Over Influencers

As Twitter, the social media company struggled to find its influencer niche. While YouTube had pranksters and beauty gurus, and

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He’s Lost His Marriage, His Followers and His Lamborghini

With its streamlined curves and glow-in-the-dark sound system, the silver Lamborghini Huracán Performante was the stuff of teenage fantasy: $350,000

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TikTok and Universal Music Group: What’s Next for Users and Artists?

Universal’s concerns are real, and reflect some of the most urgent challenges in the music business today: artists’ need to

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Takeaways From the Senate Hearing With Tech C.E.O.s on Online Child Safety

“I’m sorry for everything you have all been through,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “No one should go through the things that

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The Apple Vision Pro Is a Marvel. But Who Will Buy It?

Last week, I was ushered by an Apple employee through a security gate, past a manicured lawn, down a flight

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Law Enforcement Braces for Flood of Child Sex Abuse Images Generated by A.I.

Law enforcement officials are bracing for an explosion of material generated by artificial intelligence that realistically depicts children being sexually

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Hollywood Agency Partners With Tech Start-up Over A.I. Protection

The talent agency WME announced a partnership with the technology firm Vermillio on Tuesday that it hopes will protect its

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Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.

For more than a decade, the pioneers of the cryptocurrency industry envisioned digital coins as an alternate branch of finance,

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Amazon Scraps Deal to Buy Roomba Maker iRobot Amid Scrutiny

Amazon said on Monday that it was abandoning plans to buy iRobot, the maker of the self-driving Roomba vacuum, after

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Mediapocalypse Now, a16z’s Chris Dixon Defends Crypto, and HatGPT

casey newton This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may

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Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Ring, a home security camera company owned by Amazon, said that it would stop letting police departments request users’ footage

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Apple Blocks Android Users From Connecting to iMessage on Macs

When Apple blocked the Beeper Mini app last month from giving Android users access to the tech giant’s messaging service,

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The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.

For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the

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23andMe Breach Targeted Jewish and Chinese Customers, Lawsuit Says

The genetic testing company 23andMe is being accused in a class-action lawsuit of failing to protect the privacy of customers

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David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85

David L. Mills, an internet pioneer who developed and, for decades, implemented the timekeeping protocol used by financial markets, power

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Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images Swamp Social Media

Fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift likely generated by artificial intelligence spread rapidly across social media platforms this week,

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Cruise Says Hostility Toward Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars

Cruise, the driverless car subsidiary of General Motors, said in a report on Thursday that an adversarial approach taken by

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Tesla Profit From Car Sales Falls as Price Cuts Hurt

Tesla’s profit from sales of electric cars slumped in the last three months of last year because of price cuts

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Making VR Headsets Cool Won’t Be Easy, Even for Apple

After years of anticipation, Apple’s first major new product in nearly a decade has arrived. The $3,500 Vision Pro, a

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A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics

For four years, the computer scientist Trieu Trinh has been consumed with something of a meta-math problem: how to build

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New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls Mimicking Biden

Voters in New Hampshire received robocall messages over the weekend in a voice that was most likely artificially generated to

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Even Rats Are Taking Selfies Now (and Enjoying It)

When Augustin Lignier, a professional photographer in Paris, was in graduate school, he began to ponder the point of picture-taking

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Kona Coffee Lawsuit: How Science Helped Farmers Look for Counterfeit Beans

On the volcanic slopes of Hawaii’s Big Island, hundreds of farmers in the Kona region produce one of the most

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How AI Could Change Travel in 2024

It is hard to believe that it has only been about a year since travelers started dabbling in ChatGPT-created itineraries.

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Deal Ends Dispute Over Records of Onetime King of Donkey Kong

Back in the 1980s, it seemed as if everyone with a spare quarter was playing the arcade game Donkey Kong,

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The A.I. Election, Bitcoin’s Wall Street Debut and TikTok’s Doodad Era

“Two truly terrible ways to make money this week.”

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Hybrid Cars Enjoy a Renaissance as All-Electric Sales Slow

As Teslas and other electric vehicles dazzled car buyers with futuristic technology and dreams of a gasoline-free future, hybrid cars

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Microsoft Executives’ Emails Hacked by Group Tied to Russian Intelligence

An elite hacking group sponsored by Russian intelligence gained access to the emails of some of Microsoft’s senior executives beginning

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Apple Takes a Humble Approach to Launching Its Newest Device

When Apple released the Apple Watch in 2015, it was business as usual for a company whose iPhone updates had

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Astrobotic’s Peregrine Moon Lander Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere

A spacecraft that was headed to the surface of the moon has ended up back at Earth instead, burning up

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SpaceX Axiom Astronaut Launch: How and When to Watch

A private astronaut mission is scheduled to launch on Thursday to the International Space Station. But unlike on earlier such

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Apple Says It Will Remove a Health Feature From New Apple Watches

Apple said on Wednesday that it would begin selling its flagship smartwatches without the ability to detect people’s blood-oxygen levels.

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How Group Chats Rule the World

I’m not especially powerful; it doesn’t matter which in-jokes include me and which dinners I’m invited to. But it’s instructive

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Musk Demands Bigger Stake in Tesla as Price for A.I. Work

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, stunned investors by demanding that the company’s board give him shares worth more

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Synopsys Strikes $35 Billion Deal to Buy Ansys

Synopsys, a key Silicon Valley supplier to the chip industry, said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $35

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Discord Cuts 17% of Workers in Latest Tech Layoffs

Discord, the social chat and messaging start-up beloved by gamers, told employees on Thursday that it would cut 17 percent

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Do You Have ‘Bookshelf Wealth’?

Breana Newton, a legal coordinator in Princeton, N.J., who posts regularly about books on TikTok, was one of the people

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$4 Billion of New Bitcoin ETFs Change Hands in First Trading Day

More than $4 billion of a newly approved investment product tied to Bitcoin changed hands in the first day of

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California Has Dealt a Blow to Renewable Energy, Some Businesses Say

California has long championed renewable energy, but a change in the state’s policies last year has led to a sharp

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Hertz Sells 20,000 Electric Cars After Being Burned by Tesla’s Price Cuts

The rental car company Hertz will be selling about one-third of the electric vehicles in its fleet after they lost

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Microsoft Debates What to Do With A.I. Lab in China

When Microsoft opened an advanced research lab in Beijing in 1998, it was a time of optimism about technology and

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Microsoft Tops Apple to Become Most Valuable Public Company

For more than a decade, Apple was the stock market’s undisputed king. It first overtook Exxon Mobil as the world’s

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Why Casey Left Substack, Elon Musk and Drugs, and an A.I. Antibiotic Discovery

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Casey is taking his newsletter Platformer off Substack, as

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Federal Regulator Questions Carmakers About Unwanted Tracking Via Their Apps

Many modern cars are internet-connected and have apps that allow an owner to see a car’s location, turn it on

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Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

Google laid off hundreds of workers in several divisions Wednesday night, seeking to lower expenses as it focuses on artificial

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OpenAI Unveils App Store for Customized Versions of ChatGPT

OpenAI said on Wednesday that it was opening an app store for people to share customized versions of its popular

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SEC’s X Account Hacked, Causing Frenzy Over Bitcoin ETF

For 15 minutes, the cryptocurrency industry was euphoric. At 4:11 p.m. on Tuesday, the official X account of the Securities

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Switching to a Flip Phone Helped Me Cut Down on My Smartphone Addiction

This time of year, everyone asks what you like least about your life, but they phrase it as, “What’s your

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U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple

The Justice Department is in the late stages of an investigation into Apple and could file a sweeping antitrust case

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The Times Sues OpenAI, a Debate Over iMessage and Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube The New York Times sued OpenAI last week for

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Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris

Ms. Cox bought her son a version of a Nintendo console called a RetroN, which used the same hardware as

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Auto Sales Are Expected to Slow After a Strong 2023

After enjoying a strong rebound in sales in 2023, the auto industry appears headed for slower growth this year as

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Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law

The boom in artificial intelligence tools that draw on troves of content from across the internet has begun to test

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Chief Justice Roberts Sees Promise and Danger of A.I. in the Courts

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary, issued on

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A Stunning Eclipse, a Moon Race and Other Space Events in 2024

Crucial Events on the Path Back to the Moon NASA wants to put American astronauts on the moon’s surface in

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Un estudiante mantuvo en secreto una criptomina de 6 millones de dólares

Jerry Yu reúne las características de lo que los chinos llaman un rico de segunda generación. Estudió en una escuela

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Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions

When Thomas Wong set foot in the United States Embassy in Beijing this summer for a new diplomatic posting, it

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A 9-Month Cruise Is TikTok’s Favorite New ‘Reality Show’

In the last few months, Beth Fletcher, a 39-year-old photographer in Derbyshire, England, built a small following on TikTok by

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How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners

After almost 10 years of marriage, Christine Dowdall wanted out. Her husband was no longer the charming man she had

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Need a Home for 80,000 Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle.

Meet the Millers, George and Roxanne, proprietors of the world’s largest collection of mechanical puzzles: physical objects that a puzzler

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Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI

For months, some of the biggest players in the U.S. media industry have been in confidential talks with OpenAI on

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The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last

For generations, Western space missions have largely occurred out in the open. We knew where they were going, why they

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California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight

Neri Diaz thought he was ready for a crucial juncture in California’s ambitious plans, closely watched in other states and

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New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Work

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly

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Chinese Spy Agency Rising to Challenge the C.I.A.

The Chinese spies wanted more. In meetings during the pandemic with Chinese technology contractors, they complained that surveillance cameras tracking

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The Hot New Market in Crypto? Trading FTX’s Carcass.

After the FTX cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last year, Thomas Braziel, an investor who specializes in collapsed businesses, started

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The 2023 Good Tech Awards

In the tech industry, 2023 was a year of transformation. Spurred by the success of last year’s breakout tech star,

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This N.Y.U. Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out.

Jerry Yu has the trappings of what the Chinese call second-generation rich. He boasts a Connecticut prep-school education. He lives

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Suit Against Twitter Over Unpaid Bonuses Gets Go-Ahead From Judge

A federal judge on Friday gave the go-ahead to a lawsuit against the social media company X, formerly known as

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No Oversight: Inside a Boom-Time Start-Up Fraud and Its Unraveling

After Manish Lachwani founded the Silicon Valley software start-up HeadSpin in 2015, he inflated the company’s revenue numbers by nearly

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‘Hard Fork’: Our 2024 Predictions + Jenny Slate Answers Your Hard Questions!

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Last year, we predicted what 2023 in tech would

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Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers

Apple has opened negotiations in recent weeks with major news and publishing organizations, seeking permission to use their material in

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Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech

Under pressure from critics who say Substack is profiting from newsletters that promote hate speech and racism, the company’s founders

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Apple’s Newest Headache: An App That Upended Its Control Over Messaging

For years, Ben Black’s phone annoyed his family. It was the only Android device in a family message group with

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U.S. Regulators Propose New Online Privacy Safeguards for Children

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to bolster the key federal rule that has protected children’s privacy

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Companies Like Afterpay and Affirm May Put Americans At Risk For ‘Phantom Debt’

“Buy now, pay later” loans are helping to fuel a record-setting holiday shopping season. Economists worry they could also be

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New Jersey Deli Scheme Leads to Securities Fraud Guilty Plea

A man involved in a brazen plot to manipulate the stock price of a New Jersey deli’s parent company pleaded

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Top Social Media Trends 2023: Roman Empire, Grimace Shake, Keith Lee and More

You may have forgotten — or wanted to forget — what happened on the internet in 2023. We’re here to

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NASA Streams Cat Video From Deep, Deep Space

On Dec. 11, NASA engineers anxiously gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to view a cat video,

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Chinese Traders and Moroccan Ports: How Russia Flouts Global Tech Bans

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year, engineers at Convex, a Russian telecommunications company, needed to find American equipment to

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Apple to Pause Selling New Versions of Its Watch After Losing Patent Dispute

Apple said on Monday that it would pause sales of its flagship smartwatches online starting Thursday and at retail locations

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TikTok Quietly Changes User Terms Amid Growing Legal Scrutiny

Parents, schools and even attorneys general have increasingly been raising concerns about how TikTok may be hooking children to the

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Studios Are Loosening Their Reluctance to Send Old Shows Back to Netflix

For years, entertainment company executives happily licensed classic movies and television shows to Netflix. Both sides enjoyed the spoils: Netflix

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Vera Molnar, Pioneer of Computer Art, Dies at 99

Vera Molnar, a Hungarian-born artist who has been called the godmother of generative art for her pioneering digital work, which

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Google’s Epic Loss, Silicon Valley’s Curious New Subculture and How 2023 Changed the Internet

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube A jury decided the Google Play store unfairly stifles

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My Not-So-Perfect Holiday Shopping Excursion With A.I. Chatbots

In addition to Shopify, chatbots have come out over the past 12 months from Instacart, the delivery company; Mercari, a

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State Dept.’s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack

A Republican-led campaign against researchers who study disinformation online has zeroed in on the most prominent American government agency dedicated

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A ‘Polar Express’ Character Comes to Life

“Oh my God! You’re the girl from ‘The Polar Express,’” a tourist yelled at Nia Wilkerson. Dressed in a pink

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All I Want for Christmas Is in This PowerPoint Presentation

Every year, Michelle Miller-McNair asks her three children to make lists of what they want for Christmas. “They usually write

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Praxis Founder Dryden Brown’s Utopian Visions

Crisis as Opportunity In Amsterdam, Mr. Brown described Praxis as his response to being trapped inside his apartment during Covid,

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The Power Vacuum at the Top of the Crypto Industry

The price of Bitcoin is surging again. Major financial firms are showing renewed interest in digital currencies. And crypto fanatics

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Google Loses Antitrust Court Battle With Makers of Fortnite Video Game

A jury ruled on Monday that Google had violated antitrust laws to extract fees and limit competition from Epic Games

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The Nation Magazine to Become Monthly

The Nation, the progressive magazine that has published since 1865, will publish monthly instead of every other week starting in

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QR Codes Can Hide Risky Links, F.T.C. Warns

QR codes, the square bar codes that can be scanned and read by smartphones, are seemingly used everywhere: to board

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This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go

The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way.

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Elon Musk Says He May Bring Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X

Elon Musk said on Saturday that he would consider allowing the right-wing provocateur and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to return

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Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Around noon on Nov. 17, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, logged into a video call from a luxury

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E.U. Agrees on AI Act, Landmark Regulation for Artificial Intelligence

European Union policymakers agreed on Friday to a sweeping new law to regulate artificial intelligence, one of the world’s first

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Google’s Next Top Model, Will the Cybertruck Crash? and This Week in A.I.

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Warning: this episode contains strong language. Google’s new artificial

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Lawmakers Press Biden Administration for Tougher Curbs on China Tech

Republican lawmakers are faulting the Biden administration’s enforcement of restrictions on China’s access to American technology, saying that the administration

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Five Ways A.I. Could Be Regulated

Though their attempts to keep up with developments in artificial intelligence have mostly fallen short, regulators around the world are

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PlayStation Will Remove Discovery Shows Despite User Purchase

Sony announced on Monday that it would remove all Discovery content, including shows like “MythBusters” and “Deadliest Catch,” from user

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How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms

When European Union leaders introduced a 125-page draft law to regulate artificial intelligence in April 2021, they hailed it as

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AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Reads a Bedtime Story for Calm App

You can’t get to sleep. You’re tossing and turning. You want someone to read you a nice, wholesome bedtime story.

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Bordeaux Wine Snobs Have a Point, According to This Computer Model

In the Bordeaux region of southwest France, scores of vineyard estates transform finicky grapes into bold blends of red wine.

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Brain Implants Helped 5 People Recover From Traumatic Injuries

Traumatic brain injuries have left more than five million Americans permanently disabled. They have trouble focusing on even simple tasks

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How Elon Musk and Larry Page’s AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom

Elon Musk celebrated his 44th birthday in July 2015 at a three-day party thrown by his wife at a California

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Who’s Who Behind the Dawn of the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement

While artificial intelligence has taken the limelight over the past year, technology that can appear to operate like human brains

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The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement

While artificial intelligence has taken the limelight over the past year, technology that can appear to operate like human brains

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Netflix Builds a ‘Squid Game’ Universe as It Awaits a Second Season

On the same soundstage where Bob Barker lorded over “The Price Is Right,” “Squid Game” is coming to life. On

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Inside Kick, an Upstart Streaming Competitor to Twitch

One day this summer, the internet personality Adin Ross switched on his camera and started broadcasting himself live to thousands

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TikTok’s C.E.O. Uses Personal Touch to Address Antisemitism Concerns

Shou Chew, TikTok’s chief executive, has been getting personally involved in efforts to address concerns that the app has fueled

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What’s Next for OpenAI, Binance Is Binanceled and A.I. Is Eating the Internet

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube The drama at OpenAI is not over. Kevin and

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Advertisers Say They Do Not Plan to Return to X After Musk’s Comments

Advertisers said on Thursday that they did not plan to reopen their wallets anytime soon with X, the social media

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Tesla Plans to Begin Delivery of the Cybertruck Today

Tesla plans to begin delivering its much delayed, highly anticipated Cybertruck pickup to customers on Thursday, entering one of the

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G.M. to Cut Spending on Cruise Self-Driving Unit

General Motors is slowing the expansion of its Cruise automated driving division and significantly cutting spending at the unit after

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U.S. Debates How Much to Sever Electric Car Industry’s Ties to China

The Biden administration has been trying to jump-start the domestic supply chain for electric vehicles so cleaner cars can be

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For Sports Illustrated, Report About Fake Authors Is Latest Stumble

Three years ago, journalists at Sports Illustrated were worried that the venerable magazine’s new owners and operators were drastically lowering

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Warnings Emerge Over Emirati A.I. Firm G42’s Ties to China

When the secretive national security adviser of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, visited the White House in