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Yesterday — 17 May 2024Main stream

Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

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By: Meaghan Tobin and Amy Chang Chien
16 May 2024 at 20:55
The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.

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For years, Taiwan has been one of the world’s top targets of online disinformation, much of it originating in China.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them

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By: Cade Metz
16 May 2024 at 12:49
Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. Now they’re suing. The company denies it did anything wrong.

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Linnea Sage and Paul Skye Lehrman were shocked when they heard A.I.-generated versions of their voices.

EU Investigates Facebook and Instagram Over Addictive Effects on Children

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By: Adam Satariano
16 May 2024 at 14:13
The American tech giant’s platforms, Facebook and Instagram, may “exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors,” the European Commission said.

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“We are sparing no effort to protect our children,” Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal markets commissioner, said in a statement.

AI Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students

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By: Natasha Singer and Thalia Juarez
15 May 2024 at 16:38
A new program, backed by Cornell Tech, M.I.T. and U.C.L.A., helps prepare lower-income, Latina and Black female computing majors for artificial intelligence careers.

The Break Through Tech A.I. program provides young women with learning and career opportunities in artificial intelligence.

Inside OpenAI’s Library

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By: Cade Metz and Christie Hemm Klok
17 May 2024 at 22:45
OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation

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By: Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
15 May 2024 at 05:00
Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.

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From left, the senators behind a plan for federal legislation on artificial intelligence: Martin Heinrich, Todd Young, Chuck Schumer and Mike Rounds.

OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 21:39
In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

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Ilya Sutskever, who contributed to breakthrough research in artificial intelligence, brought instant credibility to OpenAI.

Google Unveils AI Overviews Feature for Search at 2024 I/O Conference

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By: Nico Grant
14 May 2024 at 15:35
The tech giant showed off how it would enmesh A.I. more deeply into its products and users’ lives, from search to so-called agents that perform tasks.

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On Tuesday, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, showed how the company’s aggressive work on A.I. had finally trickled into its search engine.

Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web?

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By: Kevin Roose
14 May 2024 at 14:16
Publishers have long worried that artificial intelligence would drive readers away from their sites. They’re about to find out if those fears are warranted.

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Google’s plans to incorporate new A.I. into its search results could be a problem for publishers that count on traffic from the search engine.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 01:12
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’

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By: Tripp Mickle
9 May 2024 at 18:10
People in the creative world widely panned a commercial showing a giant hydraulic press squishing objects ranging from paint cans to a piano.

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Apple faced a barrage of criticism from people who thought its ad for the latest iPad Pro was a metaphor for how Big Tech has cashed in on creative works.

Apple’s New iPad Ad Leaves Its Creative Audience Feeling … Flat

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By: Tripp Mickle
8 May 2024 at 19:47
An ad meant to show how the updated device can do many things has become a metaphor for a community’s fears of the technology industry.

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Apple’s latest iPad Pro has a more powerful chip inside, but a new ad for the device has been criticized in some circles.

Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules

✇NYT: Science
By: Cade Metz
8 May 2024 at 11:00
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.

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Google DeepMind’s new technology brings hope that the advances will significantly streamline the creation of new drugs and vaccines.

Google Unveils AI for Predicting Behavior of Human Molecules

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz
8 May 2024 at 11:00
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.

© Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind’s new technology brings hope that the advances will significantly streamline the creation of new drugs and vaccines.

TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban

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By: Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
7 May 2024 at 16:03
The social media company and its Chinese parent, ByteDance, sued to challenge the new law, saying it violated users’ First Amendment rights.

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TikTok’s office in Culver City, Calif. The company has said a new U.S. law requiring its sale is essentially a ban.

A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows

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By: David E. Sanger
6 May 2024 at 20:32
The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a “global internet” connecting the world has been shattered.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. He has described an increasingly zero-sum competition, in which countries will be forced to choose between signing up for a Western-dominated “stack” of technologies or a Chinese-dominated one.

Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

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By: Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
4 May 2024 at 05:04
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.

© Lauren Justice for The New York Times

Tesla’s change of direction is likely to delay construction of fast chargers, which are concentrated on the two coasts and in parts of Texas.

Final Arguments in Google Antitrust Trial Conclude, Setting Up Landmark Ruling

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By: David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
3 May 2024 at 18:11
Judge Amit P. Mehta must now decide whether Google violated the law, potentially setting a precedent for a series of tech monopoly cases.

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The Justice Department and state attorneys general say that Google has abused a monopoly over the search business, stifling competitors and limiting innovation, something the company denies.

TikTok, Facing US Ban, Tells Advertisers It Won’t Back Down

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
3 May 2024 at 14:04
Hundreds of marketers and ad agency types flocked to TikTok’s annual sales presentation after a new law put its future in question.

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Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s president of global business solutions, last June. In Manhattan Thursday, he said: “We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side and that we will ultimately prevail.”

U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Is Just the Start

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By: Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
3 May 2024 at 05:06
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.

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Lina Khan, the chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has vowed to take on Big Tech monopolies.

Why Google Employees Aren’t Reacting to US Antitrust Trial

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By: Nico Grant
3 May 2024 at 10:29
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.

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Despite an antitrust lawsuit, it has been business as usual on Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif.

Apple Reports Decline in Sales and Profit Amid iPhone Struggles in China

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By: Tripp Mickle
2 May 2024 at 18:18
The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.

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Apple’s sales were down 8 percent in China over the three months that ended in March.

Judge Grills U.S. and Google on Antitrust Claims

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By: David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
2 May 2024 at 14:28
Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.

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Lawyers for the Department of Justice, including Kenneth Dintzer, front right, and Meagan Bellshaw, front left. The Justice Department has sued Google, accusing it of illegally shoring up a monopoly in online search.

The Judge Deciding Google’s Landmark Antitrust Case

✇NYT: Technology
By: Steve Lohr
2 May 2024 at 05:03
Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.

© Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru; Photographs by Jim Wilson/The New York Times and Getty Images

Google Antitrust Trial Concludes With Closing Arguments

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By: David McCabe
2 May 2024 at 15:15
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and commerce.

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At the heart of the case in federal court in Washington is Google’s dominance in online search, which generates billions of dollars in profits annually.

Tesla Fires Charger Team Amid Hundreds of Layoffs

✇NYT: Technology
By: Jack Ewing
30 April 2024 at 20:07
The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.

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Tesla agreed last year to open up its network of Supercharger stations to electric cars made by other automakers.

Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024

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By: Karen Weise
30 April 2024 at 18:24
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.

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Amazon has been focusing on shipping products quickly by putting more items closer to customers. The company’s cloud computing business is also growing.

Binance Founder Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison

✇NYT: Technology
By: David Yaffe-Bellany
30 April 2024 at 17:56
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, had pleaded guilty to a money-laundering violation.

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Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, walking into the federal courthouse in Seattle on Tuesday to face sentencing.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

✇NYT: Science
By: Kenneth Chang
30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

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An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.

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By: Katie Robertson
30 April 2024 at 10:51
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

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The firm behind the lawsuit, Alden Global Capital, bought Tribune Publishing, which operated metropolitan dailies including The Chicago Tribune, in 2021.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kenneth Chang
30 April 2024 at 09:00
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.

© B612 Asteroid Institute/University of Washington DiRAC Institute/OpenSpace Project

An algorithm and cloud computing identified overlooked space rocks. Most, in green, are in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but other items in orange share Jupiter’s orbit, and items in light blue are closer to Earth.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

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By: Cade Metz， Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
29 April 2024 at 00:01
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade

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By: Karen Weise
27 April 2024 at 05:05
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.

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Microsoft said generative A.I. had contributed to more than a fifth of the growth of its cloud computing business.

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

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By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
26 April 2024 at 10:43
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

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More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

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By: Karen Weise
25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.

Alphabet’s Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion

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By: Nico Grant
25 April 2024 at 17:46
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

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In the last year, Google has incorporated A.I. into nearly every facet of its product portfolio.

F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules

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By: Cecilia Kang
25 April 2024 at 13:56
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.

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Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.
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