A Sting Operation to Save Elephants, With No Stings
It’s a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers’ fields, and tramples and eats crops....
Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job?
“It does seem to be doing something fundamentally different,” said David Autor, another M.I.T. economist, who advises Ms. Zhang and Mr. Noy. “Before, computers were...
Jury Says Tesla Must Pay Worker $3.2 Million Over Racist Treatment
A federal jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla on Monday to pay about $3.2 million to a Black man who had accused the carmaker of...
Twitter’s Logo Changes to Doge as Users Await Blue Check-Mark Removal
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter users anticipated a reckoning over the weekend as the verification check marks that denoted the accounts of celebrities, politicians and other...
Tesla Sales Rose in the First Quarter
Tesla sales rose 5 percent in the first three months of the year after it cut prices on its electric cars, helping to compensate for...
Tesla and Musk Lose Ruling on Factory Union Issues
A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a finding that Tesla illegally fired an employee involved in union organizing, and that the company’s chief executive,...
Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Dominion Case
Fox News suffered a significant setback on Friday in its defense against a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit that claims it lied about voter fraud in...
Sam Altman, the ChatGPT King, Is Pretty Sure It’s All Going to Be OK
I first met Sam Altman in the summer of 2019, days after Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in his three-year-old start-up, OpenAI. At his...
ChatGPT Is Banned in Italy Over Privacy Concerns
The artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was temporarily banned in Italy on Friday, the first known instance of the chatbot being blocked by a government order....
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’
Here are some other highlights of Mr. Pichai’s remarks: On the initial, lukewarm reception for Google’s Bard chatbot: We knew when we were putting Bard...
A Big Rover Aims to Be Like ‘U.P.S. for the Moon’
A rover the size of a Jeep Wrangler is heading to the moon, and it’s going to need a big ride to get there. Astrolab...
Twitter’s Blue Check Apocalypse Is Upon Us. Here’s What to Know About Twitter’s Blue Check
The blue check mark on Twitter has long conferred a special status. Only certain accounts — typically those of public figures whose identities were confirmed...
New Rules Will Make Many Electric Cars Ineligible for Tax Credits
The Biden administration on Friday released new rules that will significantly shorten the list of electric vehicles that qualify for federal tax credits. Officials hope...
Has Bitcoin Benefited From the Banking Crisis? Not in the Way Its Fans Hoped.
Shortly after Silicon Valley Bank failed this month, the price of Bitcoin soared above $25,000, reaching a threshold the digital currency hadn’t touched since June....