Want a Giant Neon Twitter Bird? It’s One of Many Items Up for Auction.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, the company has been in turmoil, as he has aggressively cut costs, laid off half of the...
What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
Miracle vaccines. Videophones in our pockets. Reusable rockets. Our technological bounty and its related blur of scientific progress seem undeniable and unsurpassed. Yet analysts now...
Apple Reaches Deal With Investors to Audit Its Labor Practices
Apple will conduct an assessment of its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors that includes five New York City pension...
ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real?
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Elon Musk Goes to Trial Over His 2018 Plan to Take Tesla Private
More than four years after he said he had secured the funding to take Tesla off the stock market, Elon Musk will try to defend...
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was...
Lawyers Are Back in Madison Square Garden After Facial Recognition Ban
The problem with going to battle against thousands of lawyers is that it is likely to lead to lawsuits. And then the battle will inevitably...
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines’ CEO, on What Went Wrong
In the days leading up to Christmas, the chief executive of Southwest Airlines, Bob Jordan, thought the company would quickly recover from the frigid weather...
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
When a chatbot called ChatGPT hit the internet late last year, executives at a number of Silicon Valley companies worried they were suddenly dealing with...
SEC Charges Crypto Companies With Offering Unregistered Securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged the cryptocurrency lender Genesis Global Capital and the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini Trust with offering unregistered securities through...
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
“Am I even necessary now?” he asked me, only half joking. Some schools have responded to ChatGPT by cracking down. New York City public schools,...
AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention
One thing about inhabiting a face is that we can never quite see it the way others do. Mirrors give us a reversed image. Photographs...
Sam Bankman-Fried, Founder of FTX, Responds to Fraud Charges
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency executive, on Thursday made his first detailed response to the criminal charges filed against him last month, arguing that the...
Amazon Loses Bid to Overturn Union Victory at Staten Island Warehouse
A federal labor official on Wednesday rejected Amazon’s attempt to overturn a union victory at a warehouse on Staten Island, removing a key obstacle to...