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The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights

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By: David McCabe
22 March 2024 at 05:02
Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday by accusing Apple of antitrust violations.

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Jonathan Kanter, far left, during an awards ceremony at the Justice Department in December, two years after he started leading its antitrust division.

Joni Mitchell, Following Neil Young, Returns to Spotify After Protest

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By: Ben Sisario
22 March 2024 at 13:27
Her music has quietly reappeared on the streaming service, two years after a departure over what she called “lies” about Covid-19 vaccines in podcasts.

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Joni Mitchell onstage at the Grammys last month. Many of the musician’s albums have quietly returned to Spotify.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers

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By: Kashmir Hill
22 March 2024 at 14:42
G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers.

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For years, General Motors shared data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry.

The Government’s Struggles With Outsourcing Software Development

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By: Ian Austen
23 March 2024 at 06:00
The bloated cost of the ArriveCAN app and new investigations into possible fraud have highlighted some problems with turning to outside companies.

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Jean-Yves Duclos, the procurement minister, blamed paper contracts for a potential multimillion-dollar fraud.

Inside Amira Yahyaoui’s Claims about Mos, a Student Aid Start-Up

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By: Erin Griffith
25 March 2024 at 11:04
Amira Yahyaoui, a human rights activist, promoted the success of her student aid start-up, Mos. Some of her statements do not add up, according to internal data and people familiar with the company.

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Amira Yahyaoui at the 2013 World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Washington. She founded Mos, a student aid start-up, in 2018.

X’s Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Research Group Is Dismissed

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By: Kate Conger
25 March 2024 at 14:16
Elon Musk’s social media company sued a group that exposed hate speech on the site, but a judge ruled that the suit was designed to punish speech.

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A California federal judge dismissed a case brought last year by X against the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

TikTok Bill Would Complicate ByteDance Investments if Passed

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By: Lauren Hirsch
26 March 2024 at 14:21
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.

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A confluence of politics and economics means ByteDance is also unlikely to go public soon, which would enable its shares to trade.

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

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By: Sheera Frenkel
27 March 2024 at 05:00
The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

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Displaced Palestinians arriving at a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip this month. Israel has deployed facial recognition technology at checkpoints along roads in Gaza, according to military officials.

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise

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By: Cecilia Kang
27 March 2024 at 12:59
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

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Jacob Helberg, a senior adviser to Palantir, is organizing a conference for tech leaders and Washington lawmakers on May 1.

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Use AI to See, Hear and Speak. What Are They Like?

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By: Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac
28 March 2024 at 13:06
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.

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Brian X. Chen, left, and Mike Isaac, reporters for The New York Times, trying out Meta’s new Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Tesla’s Pivot to China Saved Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.

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By: Mara Hvistendahl， Jack Ewing and John Liu
28 March 2024 at 06:22
Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.

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Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for FTX Fraud

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By: David Yaffe-Bellany and J. Edward Moreno
28 March 2024 at 17:25
Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, faced a maximum sentence of 110 years.

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Just 18 months ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was a titan of the corporate world and was one of the youngest billionaires on the planet.

Is Garry Tan San Francisco’s ‘Twitter Menace’ or True Believer?

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By: Heather Knight
29 March 2024 at 13:21
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.

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The tech investor Garry Tan has courted San Francisco’s moderate Democrats and angered its progressives.

4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks

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By: Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz
29 March 2024 at 12:18
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have been proposed to protect patient data, vulnerable hospitals and medical groups.

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UnitedHealth Group’s headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn.

OpenAI Unveils Audio Tool That Recreates Human Voices

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By: Cade Metz
29 March 2024 at 13:00
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.

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OpenAI is warning about the dangers of a new A.I. system it has created.

AT&T Passcodes for Millions Are Reset After Leak of Customer Records

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By: Aimee Ortiz
30 March 2024 at 18:03
Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach, the company said.

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AT&T reset the passwords of millions of its customers in the wake of a data breach.

Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?

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By: Brett Martin
31 March 2024 at 05:02
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.

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Farley outside his home in Danvers, Mass. In 2023, Farley’s music earned him just shy of $200,000.

Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82

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By: Katie Hafner
31 March 2024 at 16:36
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.

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Daniel C. Lynch in an undated photograph. He sold his company, Interop, to Ziff Davis in 1991 for an estimated $25 million.

How One Tech Skeptic Decided AI Might Benefit the Middle Class

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By: Steve Lohr
1 April 2024 at 10:53
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.

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“A.I., if used well, can assist with restoring the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the U.S. labor market,” David Autor, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote.

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

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By: Nico Grant
1 April 2024 at 19:11
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.

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Google said it would stop using technology that detects when users enable private browsing, so it can no longer track people’s choice to use Incognito mode.

Tesla’s Sales Drop, a Sign That Its Grip on the E.V. Market Is Slipping

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By: Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette
2 April 2024 at 13:25
Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles.

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Tesla’s relatively flat sales are the latest sign that the company’s dominance of the market for electric cars is slipping.

Love Sticks? There’s an Instagram for That.

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By: Steven Kurutz
2 April 2024 at 12:43
Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account.

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Logan Jugler, left, and Boone Hogg showed off their latest finds in Ogden, Utah.

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes

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By: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
2 April 2024 at 13:07
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.

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Oren Etzioni at The AI Institute.

George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast

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By: Christopher Kuo
2 April 2024 at 18:37
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin’s work.

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George Carlin in 2004. A lawyer for his estate said, “The world has begun to appreciate the power and potential dangers inherent in A.I. tools, which can mimic voices, generate fake photographs and alter video.”

‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It

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By: Frank Rojas
3 April 2024 at 05:00
On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it’s like to take care of relatives who have reached their final years.

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Mardonia Galeana has become an online celebrity thanks to her appearances on the Instagram account of her grandson Yosimar Reyes.

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

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By: Kevin Roose
3 April 2024 at 16:09
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.

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NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon

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By: Kenneth Chang
3 April 2024 at 19:26
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving.

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An artist’s concept of Intuitive Machines’s lunar RACER (Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover) vehicle intended to explore the moon on future Artemis missions.

TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
4 April 2024 at 11:14
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban.

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“TikTok definitely has a branding issue in the United States,” said Sister Monica Clare, a nun in Mendham, N.J., who appears in an ad for the video app.

Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles

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By: Neal E. Boudette
4 April 2024 at 15:24
The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast.

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The production line of the Ford Lightning F-150 electric pickup truck in Dearborn, Mich. The company said it would delay the introduction of new electric vehicle models.

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global

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By: Kevin Roose
5 April 2024 at 03:00
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo.

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Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

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By: Erin Griffith
5 April 2024 at 14:10
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.

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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

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By: Cade Metz， Cecilia Kang， Sheera Frenkel， Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
8 April 2024 at 22:50
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

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Researchers at OpenAI’s office in San Francisco developed a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to amass conversational text for A.I. development.

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

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By: Cecilia Kang， Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
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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Google, Meta and OpenAI train their artificial intelligence models on vast quantities of online data.

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.

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By: Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.

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Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up in San Francisco, has been vocal about its efforts to make synthetic data work.

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

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By: Cecilia Kang， Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
6 April 2024 at 05:03
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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Google, Meta and OpenAI train their artificial intelligence models on vast quantities of online data.

In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides

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By: Chris Hamby
7 April 2024 at 11:15
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits.

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Andrew Faehnle, right, was on the hook for more than two-thirds of an ambulance bill after his 14-year-old was rushed to an emergency room.

Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback

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By: Natasha Singer
8 April 2024 at 09:59
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.

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“We are making a statement to the tech industry, and to Marylanders, that we need to rein in some of this data gathering,” said Delegate Sara Love, a Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools

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By: Natasha Singer
8 April 2024 at 11:53
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

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After boys at Francesca Mani’s high school fabricated and shared explicit images of girls last year, she and her mother, Dorota, began urging schools and legislators to enact tough safeguards.

Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza

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By: Nico Grant
8 April 2024 at 14:35
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

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Google’s management has tried to rein in the company’s once freewheeling culture.

Tesla Settles Lawsuit Over a Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot

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By: Jack Ewing
8 April 2024 at 20:34
A Tesla driver’s family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker’s driver-assistance software was in use.

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Wei Lun Huang’s Tesla after the 2018 accident that killed him. A lawsuit filed by his family said Tesla’s Autopilot system was defective, lacking the ability to avoid accidents.
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