In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade
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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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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A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.
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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.
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“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.”
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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
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The Basics of Smartphone Backups
It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.
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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.
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Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.
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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.
By Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
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.
By Cade Metz and Nico Grant
Meta has already spent billions on developing artificial intelligence, and it plans to spend billions more.
By Marie Solis
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.
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The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.
By Yiwen Lu
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.
By Nico Grant
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.
By Karen Weise
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.
By Cecilia Kang
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.
By Ivan Penn
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.
By Jack Ewing
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
By Cecilia Kang
Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.
By Mike Isaac
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.
By Yiwen Lu
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Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.
By Kate Conger
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
By Sapna Maheshwari, David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?
By Vanessa Friedman
A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.
By Amanda Hess
Merle Meyers, who left Boeing last year after a 30-year career, said he was speaking publicly about his experience because he loved the company “fiercely.”
By Niraj Chokshi
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