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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until...
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Computer Theorist Wins $1 Million Turing Award
This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who...
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Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.
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What Happened When a German Car Factory Went All Electric
Volkswagen’s plant in Zwickau stopped producing Golfs and switched to electric vehicles, illuminating the risks and...
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Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works...
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Tesla Settles Lawsuit Over a Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot
A Tesla driver’s family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker’s...
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TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in...
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Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say...
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Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and...
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Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the...
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In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by...
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law...
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What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to...
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Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology....
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Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? +A Filmmaker Tries Sora + The XZ Backdoor Caper
“I’ve always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very...
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Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech...
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Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide...
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Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había...
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Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles
The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars,...
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TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead...
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He...
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NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be...
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‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It
On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it’s like to take care of relatives who...
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Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.