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Overlooked No More: Mabel Addis, Who Pioneered Storytelling in Video Gaming
She was a teacher when she participated in an educational experiment with IBM. As a result,...
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Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco. City Officials Say ‘Good Riddance.’
The company, founded in the city as Twitter, is moving its headquarters to Texas as a...
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How Elon Musk Got Tangled Up in Blue
Twitter Blue, a revamped subscription service that let users buy verified badges, was the first big...
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Harris’s Convention Speech Seen by 29 Million, a Narrow Win Over Trump’s
Overall, TV viewership of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was up 14 percent from the...
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U.S. Accuses Software Maker RealPage of Enabling Collusion on Rents
The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the real estate software company, accusing it of...
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In a Likely Overture to China, Nepal Lifts Ban on TikTok
The move signaled that Nepal’s new prime minister, who has cultivated ties with China, would continue...
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What Happened to the A.I. Election? + ChatGPT for Mayor + The Productivity Tools We’re Using
“It’s happening, but people don’t want it public.”
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Crypto Lobbyist Charged With Breaking Campaign Finance Rules
The charges against Michelle Bond, a former head of a crypto industry trade group, are part...
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A JD Vance Remix Goes Viral on TikTok, as Political Memes Change Shape
A mash-up of years-old comments by the Ohio senator with a hip-hop track is finding a...
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Google Joins $250 Million Deal to Support Newsrooms in California
The agreement includes $70 million from the state, which needs legislative approval. Some lawmakers objected, calling...
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U.S. Investigating Americans Who Worked With Russian State Television
The F.B.I. raided the homes of two prominent commentators on Russian state television channels as part...
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The Year of the A.I. Election That Wasn’t
More than 30 tech companies have pitched A.I. tools to political campaigns for November’s election. The...
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Internet Slows to a Crawl in Pakistan, Stoking Fear of a Firewall
Disruptions have fueled claims from rights groups that the Pakistani authorities are introducing technology to surveil...
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How a Law That Shields Big Tech Is Now Being Used Against It
A Massachusetts professor has filed a lawsuit against Meta using a novel interpretation of Section 230,...
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A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson’s
In a new frontier for deep brain stimulation, researchers used A.I. to develop individualized algorithms, which...
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A.I. Is Helping to Launch New Businesses (and Not Just A.I. Businesses)
Entrepreneurs say use of artificial intelligence for a variety of tasks is accelerating the path to...
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Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?
In a rare in-depth interview, this billionaire man of mystery, the head of Palantir Technologies, talks...
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OpenAI Says It Disrupted an Iranian Misinformation Campaign
The company said the Iranian effort, which used ChatGPT, did not gain much traction.
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Apple Giving Ground on App Store Rules to Appease Regulators
The company faces pressure from governments around the world and complaints from companies that it is...
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U.S. Awards $1.6 Billion to Texas Instruments to Build Semiconductor Plants
The funding stems from the bipartisan CHIPS Act, which aims to bolster the production of critical...
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Can Musk Get Trump Elected? + Steve Ballmer’s Quest for the Facts + This Week in A.I.
This is totally unprecedented for a tech C.E.O.
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Local News Is Dying, but Not in San Francisco
The city has become a hothouse for experimentation in local news. Could it serve as a...
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California A.I. Bill Is Amended; Vote Is Expected by End of August
Silicon Valley companies still worry that state lawmakers are jumping the gun on regulating a still-unproven...
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Bowling, Selfies and the ‘Dougie’: Biden Woos Influencers at the White House
For its first conference on the creator economy, the Biden administration celebrated social media creators. The...