Tucker Carlson’s Text That Alarmed Fox: ‘It’s Not How White Men Fight’
A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation...
Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots
When the union representing Hollywood writers laid out its list of objectives for contract negotiations with studios this spring, it included familiar language on compensation,...
Generative A.I. Start-Up Cohere Valued at About $2 Billion in Funding Round
Cohere, a Toronto artificial intelligence start-up, has raised $250 million in new funding, two people with knowledge of the situation said, in yet another sign...
Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming
In October 2021, Google promised to stop placing ads alongside content that denied the existence and causes of climate change, so that purveyors of the...
Facial Recognition Powers ‘Automated Apartheid’ in Israel, Report Says
Israel is increasingly relying on facial recognition in the occupied West Bank to track Palestinians and restrict their passage through key checkpoints, according to a...
States’ Push to Protect Kids Online Could Remake the Internet
People in Louisiana who visited Pornhub in recent months were met with a surprising new demand. Before they could stream sexually explicit videos, they had...
A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading
Think of the words whirling around in your head: that tasteless joke you wisely kept to yourself at dinner; your unvoiced impression of your best...
Elon Musk: SpaceX’s Out-of-Control Starship Struggled to Self-Destruct
During its brief first flight more than a week ago, the gigantic Starship rocket made by SpaceX generated an unanticipated “rock tornado” at launch, and...
Why Is the Denver Airport So Weird?
Equine art lives in many airports: Seattle and San Francisco have bronze horses shaped like driftwood, Central Illinois has wire horses suspended from the ceiling,...
What Is Bluesky and Could It Replace Twitter?
The buzz this week around Bluesky, a new social media platform being called Twitter 2.0, has been intense. Prominent Twitter users such as Representative Alexandria...
Tweets Become Harder to Believe as Labels Change Meaning
In the 24 hours after Twitter last week eliminated the blue check mark that historically served as a means of identifying public agencies, at least...
New York’s Transit Agency Quits Sharing Updates on Twitter
Real-time train delays, bus route changes and other service information that would be vital to millions of New York City commuters will no longer be...
Deepfake Drake, HatGPT and Ben Smith on the End of the BuzzFeed Era
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Amazon’s Growth Is Slow but Good Enough
For much of its history, Amazon grew amazingly, unbelievably fast. Not so much anymore. Amazon released on Thursday its results for the first quarter. Revenue...