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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.

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.

Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to its Stake in Anthropic

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By: Karen Weise
27 March 2024 at 13:27
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.

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Anthropic’s Claude chatbot competes with OpenAI and Google.

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.

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.

Β© Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

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 β€˜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.

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.

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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β€œA.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.

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.

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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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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β€œTikTok 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.

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 notΓ³ que algo andaba mal en un software en el que habΓ­a trabajado. Pronto descubriΓ³ 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 β€œsynthetic data” β€” 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.

Β© Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Google, Meta and OpenAI train their artificial intelligence models on vast quantities of online data.

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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β€œWe 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.

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.

Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse

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By: Jenny Gross
9 April 2024 at 10:42
Internet traffic dropped by 40 percent or more during the eclipse in states in the path of totality, including Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio, Cloudflare found.

Β© Madeleine Hordinski for The New York Times

Spectators watched the total eclipse on Monday from the Ohio village of Put-in-Bay on Lake Erie’s South Bass Island.

Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift

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By: Tripp Mickle
9 April 2024 at 11:00
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.

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A Beeper founder, Eric Migicovsky, said his company was trying to change β€œapathy about new experiences in chat.”

AI Chatbots Are Hiring Tutors to Train Their Models

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By: Yiwen Lu
10 April 2024 at 11:06
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.

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Chelsea Becker, with her two children, started gig work training chatbots after she went on leave after her daughter was born.

Humane’s AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone

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By: Brian X. Chen and Andri Tambunan
11 April 2024 at 12:28
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful β€” until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.

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The Humane A.I. Pin.

Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs

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By: Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen
11 April 2024 at 17:36
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.

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Apple’s new policy will remove the repair restrictions for the iPhone 15, which it released last year.

Europe’s A.I. β€˜Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

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By: Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
12 April 2024 at 00:01
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

Β© Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times

β€œThe issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?

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By: Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac
15 April 2024 at 12:19
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

Β© Loren Elliott for The New York Times

The Creator A.I. program expands on Meta’s earlier efforts to incorporate a cast of A.I. avatars built using the likenesses of celebrities.

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine

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By: Steven Kurutz
19 April 2024 at 14:39
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.

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Rusty Foster in his element at his home in Peaks Island, Maine.

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data

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By: Jonathan Moens
18 April 2024 at 10:38
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

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Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data

βœ‡NYT: Science
By: Jonathan Moens
18 April 2024 at 10:38
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

Β© Winni Wintermeyer for The New York Times

Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract

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By: Nico Grant
18 April 2024 at 14:17
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.

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A protest on Tuesday in a parking lot in Sunnyvale, Calif., near the Google Cloud offices.

Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter

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By: David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
18 April 2024 at 05:05
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

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Truth Social enjoys one crucial advantage over other right-wing apps: Donald J. Trump.

TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass

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By: Mara Hvistendahl and Lauren Hirsch
18 April 2024 at 06:12
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.

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The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps

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By: Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
18 April 2024 at 12:00
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

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Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin β€˜Halving’

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By: David Yaffe-Bellany
18 April 2024 at 12:11
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.

Β© Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters

The reduction in new coins, which takes place periodically, is designed to ensure that the amount of Bitcoin in circulation will never exceed 21 million.
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