Category: AI

Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not ‘Clinically Ad...

Adam Mosseri, who leads the Meta-owned app, testified that the company was careful to test features used by young people before re...

Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market

The company, long focused on cars and trucks, plans to begin manufacturing large batteries used by utilities, data centers, other ...

Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to...

Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial...

Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not T...

Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support ...

Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Ch...

Her departure follows months of mounting tension over her division’s work to determine whether companies violated antitrust laws.

Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Roun...

The artificial intelligence start-up raised another $30 billion, and its valuation more than doubled since its last funding round ...

Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Add...

In a series of landmark trials, plaintiffs are alleging that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addicti...

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down ...

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological d...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s relea...

‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance N...

“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people’s feelings and senses about A.I. and where it’s going.”

F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News

Andrew Ferguson of the F.T.C. said in a letter to Apple that it might be violating consumer protection law by stifling conservativ...

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Nam...

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment o...

Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.

David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at...

A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the wor...

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They...

Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine.

Meta and YouTube Created ‘Digital Casinos,’ Lawyers Arg...

Opening statements began in a trial claiming social media companies design addictive products that cause personal injury.

A.I. Personalizes the Internet but Takes Away Control

The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future ...

NLRB Dismisses Case Brought by Fired SpaceX Employees

The National Labor Relations Board, having accused the company of unfair retaliation in 2024, now says it has no jurisdiction over...

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech A...

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design...

These Mathematicians Are Putting A.I. to the Test

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform.