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    Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws

    When Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced a generative artificial intelligence feature for the company’s search engine last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated...

    Elon Musk Lobbies on X for His $46.5 Billion Tesla Pay Package

    Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, offered a personal tour of the electric carmaker’s factory in Austin, Texas, to select shareholders this week.“Please let us...

    The Very Slow Restart of G.M.’s Cruise Driverless Car Business

    At a sprawling complex in Warren, Mich., General Motors’ hopes for its driverless car future play out in a virtual reality headset offered to...

    Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia

    A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county...

    OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

    OpenAI said on Tuesday that it has begun training a new flagship artificial intelligence model that would succeed the GPT-4 technology that drives its...

    Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

    Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, said on Sunday that it has raised $6 billion, helping to close the funding gap with OpenAI, Anthropic...

    Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

    Just before Russian troops pushed across the Ukrainian northern border this month, members of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade lost a vital resource. Starlink satellite...

    In New TikTok Trend, Parents Dance Like It’s the ’80s and Bring Down the House

    TikTok can add a new skill to its résumé: disco time machine.The social platform, normally populated with an endless scroll of Gen Z-ers dancing...

    Kabosu, Shiba Inu Dog Who Helped Define the Doge Meme, Dies at 18

    Kabosu, a Shiba Inu whose “much wow” face helped launch one of the defining memes of the last decade and inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin,...

    U.S. Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster Owner, Live Nation

    The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over...

    San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars

    When David De Clercq traveled to San Francisco last year, he had a few musts on his itinerary: Go to Alcatraz. Try new restaurants....

    Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha

    Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making...

    A.I. and the Election: See How Easily Chatbots Can Create Disinfo for Social Media

    Ahead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots...

    Inside OpenAI’s Library – The New York Times

    The two-story library has Oriental rugs, shaded lamps dotting its desks and rows of hardbacks lining its walls. It is the architectural centerpiece of...

    Why TikTok Users Are Blocking Celebrities

    As protests over the war in Gaza unfolded blocks away, last week’s Met Gala was largely devoid of political statements on the red carpet....

    OpenAI’s Flirty New Assistant, Google Guts the Web and We Play HatGPT

    Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its newest A.I. model. It has an uncannily...