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Why TikTok Users Are Blocking Celebrities

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Elizabeth Paton
A TikTok movement is calling for followers to block famous people over their stances on the Israel-Hamas war. It began at the Met Gala.

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Zendaya at the Met Gala last week in a couture gown. Her image, spliced with photographs of Palestinian children, contributed to a TikTok movement.

Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them

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Cade Metz
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.

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

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Kevin Roose
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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Cade Metz
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.

California Will Add a Fixed Charge to Electric Bills and Reduce Rates

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Ivan Penn
Officials said the decision would lower bills and encourage people to use cars and appliances that did not use fossil fuels, but some experts said it would discourage energy efficiency.

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Utility companies across the country have long pushed for fixed charges to help cover the cost of maintaining and improving grid equipment like power lines and substations

Apple Says Destructive iPad Ad ‘Missed the Mark’

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Tripp Mickle
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.

Meet My A.I. Friends

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Kevin Roose
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.

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GM to Retire the Chevy Malibu to Make More EVs

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Neal E. Boudette
The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States.

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Since the car’s introduction in the 1960s, G.M. has sold more than 10 million Malibus. But sales have slumped in recent years.

Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

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Erica L. Green
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His “Investing in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows

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David E. Sanger
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.
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