Politics
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What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app…
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Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver…
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A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
There’s a problem with leading artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: We don’t really know how smart they…
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Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages…
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Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Workers
Elon Musk’s electric car company reported a drop in sales in the first three months of the year, and its…
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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
On a recent afternoon, I held a bagel in front of me and said: “Look and tell me if this…
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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 “synthetic data” — data…
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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. Here’s what to know.
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s…
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How One Tech Skeptic Decided A.I. Might Benefit the Middle Class
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.