Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.
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CreditJason Henry for The New York Times Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance
Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.
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CreditKatarina Premfors for The New York Times Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
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In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
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More in Personal Technology ›Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed.
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep.
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Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.
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Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.
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The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.
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CreditFrancis Mascarenhas/Reuters A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes
Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.
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Reporter’s NotebookY2K Kids Were the Last to Really Rage With No One Watching
The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past.
By Maya Salam
Xbox’s Prized Sci-Fi Franchise Is Heading to PlayStation
As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony’s competing console for the first time.
By Zachary Small
Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser
“Now we are just seeing OpenAI do the full Facebook when it comes to content policy.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Alyssa Moxley, Rowan Niemisto, Elisheba Ittoop and Pat McCusker
A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question.
By Jesse Barron
Ford’s Profit Jumps on Strong Sales but Company Lowers its Outlook
Ford said a fire at an aluminum factory will lower profits in the last three months of the year. The company also said it has stopped making an electric version of its popular F-150 pickup.
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Tesla’s Profit Falls 37% After It Cut Car Prices
The company sold more cars but made less money on each one because of discounts and low-interest loans.
By Jack Ewing
Does Your Electric Bill Keep Going Up? We Want to See It.
Utility rates are rising in many places across the country, and we’re continuing to report on the causes and impacts.
By Ivan Penn and Rebecca F. Elliott
G.M. Previews Talking Cars, Cheaper Batteries and Other New Tech
Drivers will be able to converse with an artificial intelligence assistant while cars largely drive themselves in certain situations, the company said.
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Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs
The layoffs do not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The cuts were focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.
By Mike Isaac and Eli Tan
OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence
The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
By Cade Metz
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