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Netanyahu Posts ‘Proof of Life’ Video as A.I. Sows Doubts About What’s Real

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 17

Netanyahu Posts ‘Proof of Life’ Video as A.I. Sows Doubts About What’s Real

The unusual video is the latest demonstration that artificial intelligence is undermining trust — even in footage that is authentic.

By Stuart A. Thompson and Tiffany Hsu

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How Trump Drove a Wedge Between Florida Republicans Over A.I.

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 16

How Trump Drove a Wedge Between Florida Republicans Over A.I.

A Florida bill that would have regulated artificial intelligence, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, failed to gain traction after President Trump made it clear he did not want states to rein in the technology.

By David McCabe and Patricia Mazzei

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Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions

Corporations

Tracked Story Mar 13

Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions

The maker of Photoshop agreed to pay $75 million to the government, which had accused it of hiding details of expensive fees.

By David McCabe

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A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity

Science and Technology

Tracked Story Mar 13

A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity

“When there is an attack that kills civilians or doesn’t hit its intended target, people are going to be asking, Oh, was that a human who made that mistake or was that an A.I. system?”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Vjeran Pavic, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong

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Social Media

Tracked Story Mar 12

Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided.

By David Streitfeld

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A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 12

A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.

Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider.

By Brian X. Chen and Teddy Rosenbluth

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A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 12

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes.

By Cade Metz

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Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture

Computers and the Internet

Tracked Story Mar 12

Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture

In television and movies, depictions of nihilistic billionaires and amoral opportunists are replacing the quirky strivers of older shows like HBO’s “Silicon Valley.”

By Erin Griffith

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They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

Labor and Jobs

Tracked Story Mar 11

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop.

By Kashmir Hill

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 10

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.

By Cecilia Kang

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Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 10

Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors.

By Cade Metz

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Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 9

Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.

By Sheera Frenkel

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For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 7

For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal

A fight over Pentagon contracts shows how the leaders of Silicon Valley’s two most important A.I. start-ups are feuding over the future of the tech industry.

By Mike Isaac

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A Guide to the Pentagon’s Dance With Anthropic and OpenAI

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 7

A Guide to the Pentagon’s Dance With Anthropic and OpenAI

Negotiations, threats and amended contracts have left plenty of questions. Here are some answers.

By Cade Metz

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Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 7

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?

By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.

By Sophie Haigney

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From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

Deaths (Obituaries)

Tracked Story Mar 6

From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

Equal parts quixotic dreamer and accomplished visionary, Ms. Gabe made the house do its own scrubbing.

By Margalit Fox

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OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop

Science and Technology

Tracked Story Mar 6

OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop

“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Vjeran Pavic, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto

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S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins

United States Politics and Government

Tracked Story Mar 5

S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins

The decision to settle the court action is particularly striking because the defendant was accused of a serious violation of securities laws. He denied the charges.

By Sharon LaFraniere and David Yaffe-Bellany

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Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 5

Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.

By Cade Metz, Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel

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Meet the A.I. Prospectors Tapping a Billion-Dollar Gusher

Data Centers

Tracked Story Mar 5

Meet the A.I. Prospectors Tapping a Billion-Dollar Gusher

Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.

By Tripp Mickle and Tim Gruber

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The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

Home Automation and Smart Homes

Tracked Story Mar 5

The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

By Brian X. Chen

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your-feed-science

Tracked Story Mar 5

You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

By Ari Daniel

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A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes

Artificial Intelligence

Tracked Story Mar 5

A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes

The world’s smartest technology is no match for the U.S. tax code.

By Stuart A. Thompson

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Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Tracked Story Mar 4

Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit

Mr. Musk said he did not expect his posts in the lead-up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media site, now X, to affect the company’s share price.

By Kate Conger

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Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power

United States Politics and Government

Tracked Story Mar 4

Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power

Companies including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI committed to pay for the power plants and grid upgrades needed to run their data centers.

By David McCabe and Brad Plumer

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Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm

Computer Chips

Tracked Story Mar 4

Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm

A bipartisan group of senators raised national security concerns about the chipmaker, which is now partly owned by taxpayers.

By Tripp Mickle

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OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

United States Defense and Military Forces

Tracked Story Mar 3

OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.

By Cade Metz and Julian E. Barnes

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Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.

Newspapers

Tracked Story Mar 2

Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.

Accurate journalism requires full and fair reporting. It means pushing hard to hear from those you’re writing about.

By Mike Abrams

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The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

United States Defense and Military Forces

Tracked Story Mar 2

The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.

By Sheera Frenkel and Cade Metz

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Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Tracked Story Mar 2

Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators.

Global officials are expected to closely examine the $111 billion deal, which ties together two entertainment powerhouses, over potential competition issues.

By David McCabe

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Technology Blog

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Netanyahu Posts ‘Proof of Life’ Video as A.I. Sows Doubts About What’s Real

How Trump Drove a Wedge Between Florida Republicans Over A.I.

Adobe Settles With U.S. Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions

A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity

Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully.

A.I. Writes Buggy Code. A Silicon Valley Start-Up Wants to Fix It.

Silicon Valley’s Image Takes a Dark Turn in Pop Culture

They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

Former Meta A.I. Chief’s Start-Up Is Valued at $3.5 Billion

Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Label

For OpenAI and Anthropic, the Competition Is Deeply Personal

A Guide to the Pentagon’s Dance With Anthropic and OpenAI

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals?

From 2017: Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

OpenAI’s Fog of War + Betting on Iran + Hard Fork Review of Slop

S.E.C. Settles Its Case Against Justin Sun, an Investor in the Trumps’ Crypto Coins

Pentagon Officially Notifies Anthropic It Is a ‘Supply Chain Risk’

Meet the A.I. Prospectors Tapping a Billion-Dollar Gusher

The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before

A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust A.I. to File Your Taxes

Elon Musk Defends Social Media Posts in Twitter Shareholder Lawsuit

Trump Announces A.I. Industry Pledge to Pay for Power

Lawmakers Question Intel’s Use of Tools From Blacklisted Chinese Firm

OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon

Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.

The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

Paramount Won Over Warner Bros. Now for the Regulators.

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