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Yesterday — 4 May 2024Main stream

Tesla Pullback Puts Onus on Others to Build Electric Vehicle Chargers

✇NYT: Technology
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.

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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.
Before yesterdayMain stream

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

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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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

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.

© 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.

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

✇NYT: Technology
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

✇NYT: Technology
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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

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

✇NYT: Technology
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

✇NYT: Technology
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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

© Pool photo by Oliver Contreras

Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.

TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cecilia Kang
25 April 2024 at 08:57
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

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Experts on tech legislation say that the unique speed of the passage of the TikTok legislation is highly unlikely to be repeated.

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

✇NYT: Technology
By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
25 April 2024 at 00:00
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.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

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

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Mike Isaac
24 April 2024 at 18:31
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

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Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.

Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law. Here’s What Happens Next.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
24 April 2024 at 16:00
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

TikTok supporters on Capitol Hill last month. The proposed law would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States if its Chinese owner sold it within about nine months.

Binance Founder Should Get 3 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say

✇NYT: Technology
By: David Yaffe-Bellany
24 April 2024 at 14:38
Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.

© Ore Huiying for The New York Times

Just 18 months ago, Changpeng Zhao, riding high as Binance’s chief executive, helped set off the chain of events that led to the collapse of FTX, Binance’s largest rival.

Elon Musk Clashes With Australian Court Over Violent Videos on X

✇NYT: Technology
By: Kate Conger
24 April 2024 at 14:35
Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.

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Security officers standing guard outside a church in Sydney this month after a bishop was stabbed during a YouTube livestream of the service.

On TikTok, Potential Ban of App Leads to Resignation and Frustration

✇NYT: Technology
By: Yiwen Lu
24 April 2024 at 14:28
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.

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Supporters of TikTok gathered near the Capitol last month as the House of Representatives voted to pass a bill to force TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or risk being banned in U.S. app stores.

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg

✇NYT: Technology
By: Vanessa Friedman
24 April 2024 at 13:52
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?

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Mark Zuckerberg arriving in Seoul in February in an Overland shearling jacket

Biden Signed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Here’s What Happens Next.

✇NYT: Technology
By: Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
24 April 2024 at 11:20
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

TikTok supporters on Capitol Hill last month. The proposed law would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States if its Chinese owner sold it within about nine months.

In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It’s Not Enough

✇NYT: Technology
By: David Streitfeld
23 April 2024 at 10:28
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

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Andreas Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, at the company’s offices in Mountain View, Calif., in 2007. He helped bankroll Google in 1998.

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

✇NYT: Technology
By: Karen Weise and Cade Metz
23 April 2024 at 01:18
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

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The smallest Microsoft Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, and it runs on the kinds of chips that power regular computers.

Nina Jankowicz Forms New Group to Defend Disinformation Research

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By: Steven Lee Myers and Jim Rutenberg
22 April 2024 at 17:32
The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.

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Nina Jankowicz of the American Sunlight Project, a new advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that aims to push back against disinformation online.

AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line

✇NYT: Technology
By: Cecilia Kang
22 April 2024 at 09:00
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.

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Journalists outside a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation in January. A new report says A.I. is adding to the problem.

How Scam Calls and Messages Took Over Our Everyday Lives

✇NYT: Technology
By: Steven Kurutz
21 April 2024 at 09:37
To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.

Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store

✇NYT: Technology
By: Tripp Mickle and Mike Isaac
19 April 2024 at 14:23
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.

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A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.

Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving’

✇NYT: Technology
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.

© 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.

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.

© Meta

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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

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

✇NYT: Technology
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.

© John Minchillo/Associated Press

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