In A.I. Race, Microsoft and Google Choose Speed Over Caution
In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They...
Justice Department Recently Looked Into Twitter, Lawsuit Says
A lawsuit filed on Monday by several former Twitter executives said they had personally spent more than $1 million on legal expenses related to shareholder...
Hoping to Draw Moviegoers and Filmmakers, Amazon Heads to Theaters
It was a full house at the AMC Town Square in Las Vegas in September when Ben Affleck slipped into the darkened theater. He wanted...
A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again
More than a decade ago, lawyers were singled out as an endangered occupational species, their livelihoods at risk from advances in artificial intelligence. But the...
Leaked Pentagon Documents Are Still Circulating on Twitter and Discord. Here’s Why.
Twitter and the social media platform Discord have various policies that might have prompted them to remove the leaked Pentagon documents that Biden administration officials...
See How Real AI-Generated Images Have Become
April 8, 2023 Seeing has not been believing for a very long time. Photos have been faked and manipulated for nearly as long as photography...
Why Pope Francis Is the Star of AI-Generated Photos
Pope Francis wearing a long, white puffer jacket inspired by Balenciaga. Francis rocking aviators and revving a motorcycle down a busy street. Francis turning the...
How to Use Chatbots, like ChatGPT, in Your Daily Life and Work
In today’s newsletter, the fourth in our five-part series, I’m going to try to convince you that large language models are already good at a...
Attacks on Dominion Voting Persist Despite High-Profile Lawsuits
With a series of billion-dollar lawsuits, including a $1.6 billion case against Fox News headed to trial this month, Dominion Voting Systems sent a stark...
Want This Snoopy T-Shirt? You’ll Have to Pay in Blood.
What would you be willing to give for an ultraexclusive T-shirt? Hundreds of dollars? Hours spent waiting in line? How about blood? A white graphic...
Twitter Takes Aim at Posts That Link to Its Rival Substack
SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, the newsletter service Substack announced that it had built a Twitter competitor. On Thursday, Twitter prevented Substack writers from sharing...
How Elon Musk Is Changing the Twitter Experience
Elon Musk has declared he wants to transform Twitter into an all-inclusive app that people can use for payments, news and food orders. “Buying Twitter...
A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein, and Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio...
Seduced by a Charming AI Chatbot
I was at Nubar, an elegant cafe near Harvard Square, to meet David, with whom I had been corresponding online. He sounded like the perfect...