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Voice Actors Sue Company Whose AI Sounds Like Them

✇NYT: Technology
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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

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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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.

Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

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Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
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.

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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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David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
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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Sapna Maheshwari
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.”

Judge Grills U.S. and Google on Antitrust Claims

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David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
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.

Google Antitrust Trial Concludes With Closing Arguments

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David McCabe
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

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Jack Ewing
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.

Binance Founder Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison

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David Yaffe-Bellany
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
Kenneth Chang
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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Katie Robertson
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
Kenneth Chang
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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Cade Metz and Nico Grant
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.

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

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

✇NYT: Technology
Cade Metz and Nico Grant
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.
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