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    Supreme Court Pauses Ruling Blocking Biden Administration’s Contacts With Tech Platforms

    The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Biden administration officials to continue to contact social media platforms to combat what the officials say is misinformation,...

    Peering Into A.I.’s Black Box, Who’s the Real Techno-Optimist? and Reading Ancient Scrolls With A.I.

    Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | AmazonA.I. models are black boxes. You input a prompt and the model outputs nearly anything: a...

    New York Attorney General Sues Crypto Firms in $1 Billion Fraud Case

    Continuing a crackdown on cryptocurrency companies, the New York attorney general accused three major players in the digital asset industry of lying to investors...

    Stanford Is Ranking Major A.I. Models on Transparency

    How much do we know about A.I.?The answer, when it comes to the large language models that firms like OpenAI, Google and Meta have...

    Hamas Hijacked Victims’ Social Media Accounts to Spread Terror

    Shortly after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, friends and relatives of Gali Shlezinger Idan, who lived in a kibbutz near the Gaza border,...

    How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers

    The widely used chatbot ChatGPT was designed to generate digital text, everything from poetry to term papers to computer programs. But when a team...

    Australia Fines X for Not Providing Information on Child Abuse Content

    Australia said on Sunday that it would fine X for failing to provide information about its efforts to combat child exploitation and that the...

    Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.?

    There are two distinct factions of parents on TikTok: those who will crack eggs over their kids’ heads for likes and those who are...

    ‘Xbox Wins?’ Gamers Cautiously Celebrate Microsoft Activision Deal

    When Microsoft announced that it was spending $69 billion to buy the video game maker Activision Blizzard in January last year, Justin Katz was...

    As Red States Curb Social Media, Did Montana’s TikTok Ban Go Too Far?

    Many of the world’s largest consumer technology companies will be closely monitoring a federal court hearing in Montana on Thursday that could decide whether...

    ‘Don’t Do That Again’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Under Fire From Judge

    Three days into Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s warnings to the defense had become unmistakable.Judge...

    Social Media Changed How Brands Talk to Us, but Are the Jokes Wearing Thin?

    In the comments on a recent TikTok post by RyanAir, an exuberant traveler posted about flying the airline for the first time. In the...

    The Big Number: 1,300

    The disgraced founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX faces a mountain of evidence against him. Source link

    The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast

    “There’s plenty of space at the bottom.” So proclaimed the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, heralding the new field of nanophysics, the study of...

    Once a Labor Leader, Butler Angered Unions by Consulting for Uber

    In the summer of 2019, Uber, Lyft and other companies that use contract drivers faced a crisis in California. The State Legislature was poised...

    S.E.C. Sues Elon Musk to Compel Him to Testify on Twitter Purchase

    The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Thursday to force him to testify about his accumulation of shares in Twitter, which the...