Alexandra Alter / New York Times: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg — The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as SuperBrain and Naver's Talking Buddy are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline — In the world's fastest aging society, artificial intelligence is being used to make care calls to older adults who live alone and to fight dementia.
New York Times: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas will be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by AI tools like Seedance 2.0 — This actor was just hitting his stride when A.I.-generated dramas took off and roles disappeared.
New York Times: Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — Chris Larsen, who hails from California, plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate …
Jasmine Sun / New York Times: The persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI — Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Casa, which uses lidar scanners and AI to catalog homes and manage proactive maintenance alongside human workers, raised $27M, including a $20M Series A — Casa, a company founded by former Uber executives, says it uses artificial intelligence and a stable of handymen to take care of members' homes.
New York Times: As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions — From beauty influencers to the token political opposition, Russians are openly questioning President Vladimir V. Putin's moves to hamstring access.
Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant's growing ambitions in video podcasts.
Heather Knight / New York Times: Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique — Andon Market in San Francisco is billed as the first retail boutique run by an artificial intelligence agent.
Ryan Mac / New York Times: Sources detail how Elon Musk has de-emphasized SpaceX's original aim of reaching Mars as it prepares to go public, focusing instead on AI and other moonshots — For years, SpaceX's mission was clear: Get humans to Mars. — “The most powerful thing we could do is establish a second …
Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.
New York Times: US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses — The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman's home …
Ryan Mac / New York Times: A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post — A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.
Callie Holtermann / New York Times: A survey of 1,500 people aged 14 to 29: hopefulness regarding AI has dropped from 27% to 18% over the past year, and 50% report using GenAI daily or weekly — A new study from Gallup found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about artificial intelligence.
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security — Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon.
New York Times: An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …
New York Times: Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour — The company's A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.
Stacy Cowley / New York Times: The US Treasury says Robinhood and BNY will work with the federal government to handle tax-sheltered “Trump Accounts” for children when they launch this summer — The new tax-sheltered savings and investment accounts will start accepting deposits this summer.
Joy Dong / New York Times: China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights — The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users say the changes are now restricting too many flights.
New York Times: How some teens use popular AI-powered role-playing chatbots, and the high-stakes challenge for parents to understand their potentially addictive impact — When Quentin was 13, he kept seeing ads on YouTube for Talkie, an app with “countless A.I.s eager to speak with you.”
Kalley Huang / New York Times: The Artemis II moon mission is one of the first times NASA has let astronauts fly with smartphones, giving them modified iPhones for taking photos and videos — The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can't connect to the internet.
Erin Griffith / New York Times: How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two full-time employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales, as it tracks for $1.8B in 2026 — Matthew Gallagher took just two months, $20,000 and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools to get his start-up off the ground.
New York Times: Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide — The war in Iran has exposed the need to mount a defense against foreign influence campaigns, officials and experts say.
New York Times: Instagram reaches an agreement with the MPA to cease using the PG-13 trademark in its Teen Accounts marketing, after a C&D letter, and will add a disclaimer — The social media giant, under legal pressure from the Motion Picture Association, has retreated from its use of the movie rating in its marketing.
New York Times: Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns — No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.
Ezra Klein / New York Times: Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more — In his classic book “Understanding Media,” Marshall McLuhan dwells on the Greek myth of Narcissus.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more — YouTube is now the leading way Americans watch video. Its audience is young; an astonishing 90 percent of American teenagers are on the platform.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software — The company, which develops autonomous military technology, also plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users — A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.
Katie Rogers / New York Times: Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives — The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”
Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using — An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …
New York Times: A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0” — A review of the betting market's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
New York Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech — The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus. — Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …
Ana Swanson / New York Times: The US goods trade deficit hit a record $1.2T in 2025, driven by a 60% rise in imports of computers and chips to $450B+ since President Trump's inauguration — A recent surge of A.I.-related imports has become an impediment to the smaller trade deficit President Trump wants.
New York Times: Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release — An email sent to Jeffrey Epstein in September 2010 presented an intriguing opportunity. “Would you be interested,” it read …
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: How tech billionaires are turning on the Giving Pledge, promoted by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett; Peter Thiel says he privately told ~12 signers to undo it — Just a few months after Warren Buffett convened a series of high-end dinners across America to collect signatures for something called …
New York Times: Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication — A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of the war in Iran.
Clive Thompson / New York Times: Developers on AI coding: many are enthusiastic and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some say software jobs openings may grow, and more — Lately, Manu Ebert has been trying to keep his A.I. from humiliating him. — I recently visited Ebert, a machine-learning engineer …
Cade Metz / New York Times: Axiom Math, which uses AI and the Lean language to verify code in much the same way that mathematicians prove math problems, raised $200M at a $1.6B valuation — In January, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a study analyzing the use of artificial intelligence technologies …
Maria Varenikova / New York Times: How Ukraine is working to make drones with as few Chinese components as possible, prioritizing self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon — The country has prioritized self-sufficiency in producing a crucial battlefield weapon, though weaning itself fully off cheaper Chinese components is difficult.
Adam Satariano / New York Times: A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner from Australia who moved to London and started the data center company in 2024 amid the AI boom — After leaving high school in an industrial area of Australia, Josh Payne took an unlikely path to becoming the head …
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times: Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI — Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
New York Times: A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M — Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.
Vivian Wang / New York Times: Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI — Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry …
Amy Fan / New York Times: Analysis: since the end of 2025, Polymarket users have rarely bet large sums on US strikes the next day; before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts placed such bets — Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.
New York Times: An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, “Freedom of Money”, details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE — In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more — Everette Taylor took over Kickstarter at a low moment for the crowdfunding pioneer, which made its name with small projects …
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio — Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online.
John Yoon / New York Times: South Korea approves Google's request to export detailed geographic data overseas, reversing a longstanding policy that made Google Maps largely nonfunctional — South Korea approved Google's request to export detailed map data, reversing a longstanding restriction that made the tool largely nonfunctional.
Tripp Mickle / New York Times: Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons — More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.