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In a new strategy, Amazon plans to release 14 to 16 movies per year in theaters, rivaling other major studios, with most running for 45 days before streaming (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)

2025-04-01 07:50:03                nytimes.com

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: In a new strategy, Amazon plans to release 14 to 16 movies per year in theaters, rivaling other major studios, with most running for 45 days before streaming  —  The streaming giant is planning to release at least 14 movies a year in theaters around the country, rivaling other major studios.

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How some UK parents created a "Smartphone Free Childhood" pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools (Megan Specia/New York Times)

2025-04-01 05:40:01                nytimes.com

Megan Specia / New York Times: How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools  —  In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.

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Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

2025-03-31 07:11:45                nytimes.com

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Isomorphic Labs, a DeepMind spinoff focusing on drug discovery, raised $600M led by Thrive to research treatments, including for cancer and immune disorders  —  The company, which uses artificial intelligence to develop new treatments, now counts the venture capital firm Thrive Capital as a backer.

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An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals (New York Times)

2025-03-31 02:50:00                nytimes.com

New York Times: An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US “pedophile hunters”, whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals  —  With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.

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US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru (New York Times)

2025-03-29 08:50:00                nytimes.com

New York Times: US tech companies are racing to establish more and bigger offshore campuses in India, fully staffed with highly skilled professionals in cities like Bengaluru  —  An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.

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The US adds export restrictions to 80 entities, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and customers of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD (Ana Swanson/New York Times)

2025-03-26 05:20:01                nytimes.com

Ana Swanson / New York Times: The US adds export restrictions to 80 entities, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and customers of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD  —  The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.

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Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options (Kate Morgan/New York Times)

2025-03-23 02:00:42                nytimes.com

Kate Morgan / New York Times: Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options  —  Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times

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A profile of longtime Elon Musk loyalist Steve Davis, who effectively runs DOGE after SpaceX, Boring Company, and X stints, based on interviews with 22 sources (New York Times)

2025-03-20 07:00:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: A profile of longtime Elon Musk loyalist Steve Davis, who effectively runs DOGE after SpaceX, Boring Company, and X stints, based on interviews with 22 sources  —  Elon Musk declared last month that the federal government was engaged in “utterly insane” activity, claiming without evidence …

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Since Xi Jinping met DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng last month, Chinese officials are rushing to use the AI model, including in courthouses and in hospitals (New York Times)

2025-03-18 07:20:44                nytimes.com

New York Times: Since Xi Jinping met DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng last month, Chinese officials are rushing to use the AI model, including in courthouses and in hospitals  —  Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek's A.I. technology since the company's founder met with Xi Jinping, China's leader.

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HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a "honeypot" Slack channel (New York Times)

2025-03-17 08:10:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: HR service Rippling sues Deel, accusing its rival of hiring a mole in its Dublin office to comb through trade secrets, uncovered via a “honeypot” Slack channel  —  A lawsuit by Rippling accuses a top competitor, Deel, of placing a mole in its ranks — which it uncovered via a “honeypot” trap on Slack.

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Carl Lundstrom, who financed file sharing service the Pirate Bay, died in a plane crash in Slovenia; at its peak, the Pirate Bay had an estimated 20M+ users (Michael Levenson/New York Times)

2025-03-17 05:55:01                nytimes.com

Michael Levenson / New York Times: Carl Lundstrom, who financed file sharing service the Pirate Bay, died in a plane crash in Slovenia; at its peak, the Pirate Bay had an estimated 20M+ users  —  Mr. Lundstrom was a supporter of far-right causes and, at one point, an unsuccessful candidate for office.

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A profile of Caroline Crenshaw, the lone Democratic SEC Commissioner, who is offering dissenting views as the regulator rolls back Biden-era crypto enforcement (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)

2025-03-12 07:10:01                nytimes.com

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: A profile of Caroline Crenshaw, the lone Democratic SEC Commissioner, who is offering dissenting views as the regulator rolls back Biden-era crypto enforcement  —  Caroline Crenshaw, the lone Democratic commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission, is offering dissenting views …

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Trump's call to scrap the "horrible" CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program (New York Times)

2025-03-11 06:25:15                nytimes.com

New York Times: Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program  —  The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.

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Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

2025-03-08 02:40:01                nytimes.com

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Source: Bybit hackers planted malicious code to manipulate transactions by compromising a developer's computer at crypto wallet provider Safe, used by Bybit  —  On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared to be a routine transaction.

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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unveils an overhaul of Biden's $42B broadband grant to "take a tech-neutral approach", a move that could benefit Starlink (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

2025-03-06 07:05:01                nytimes.com

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unveils an overhaul of Biden's $42B broadband grant to “take a tech-neutral approach”, a move that could benefit Starlink  —  Under new rules from President Trump's Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.

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Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on "connection and humanity" online (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

2025-03-05 07:10:02                nytimes.com

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online  —  Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.

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Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more (Ezra Klein/New York Times)

2025-03-05 06:25:02                nytimes.com

Ezra Klein / New York Times: Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more  —  This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”  You can listen to the conversation by following …

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Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work played a vital role in the rise of AI, including ChatGPT (Cade Metz/New York Times)

2025-03-05 05:36:14                nytimes.com

Cade Metz / New York Times: Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work played a vital role in the rise of AI, including ChatGPT  —  Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.

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A look at Vibecoding, a term popularized by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy for a trend where AI lets nontechnical hobbyists build bespoke apps for themselves (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

2025-03-01 02:35:01                nytimes.com

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at Vibecoding, a term popularized by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy for a trend where AI lets nontechnical hobbyists build bespoke apps for themselves  —  A photo illustration shows a vertical circuit board full of dials and knobs of various designs and sizes.  Fingers are turning two of them.

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A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)

2025-02-27 07:35:04                nytimes.com

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: A profile of London-based Mubi, a niche movie streaming service with 400 employees boosted by hit film The Substance, turning it into a real Hollywood player  —  Early on in “The Substance,” the body horror film starring Demi Moore that has been nominated for five Academy Awards …

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Sources: no major players behind online scam centers in Myanmar were taken down in the recent China-led raids, and the construction of new centers continues (Hannah Beech/New York Times)

2025-02-27 04:45:02                nytimes.com

Hannah Beech / New York Times: Sources: no major players behind online scam centers in Myanmar were taken down in the recent China-led raids, and the construction of new centers continues  —  A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month.  But this massive business of grift keeps growing.

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The American Psychological Association warns the US FTC that AI chatbots "masquerading" as therapists could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others (Ellen Barry/New York Times)

2025-02-26 04:45:02                nytimes.com

Ellen Barry / New York Times: The American Psychological Association warns the US FTC that AI chatbots “masquerading” as therapists could drive vulnerable people to harm themselves or others  —  The nation's largest association of psychologists this month warned federal regulators that A.I. chatbots …

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Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

2025-02-22 11:01:13                nytimes.com

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world  —  Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.

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Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling "tiny team" success stories (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

2025-02-22 06:35:02                nytimes.com

Erin Griffith / New York Times: Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling “tiny team” success stories  —  Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast.

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Software engineers, academics, and others say AI coding tools will likely prompt an evolution rather than extinction, pushing developers to learn new skills (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

2025-02-21 04:35:02                nytimes.com

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Software engineers, academics, and others say AI coding tools will likely prompt an evolution rather than extinction, pushing developers to learn new skills  —  A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology's potential to disrupt the work force.

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A look at "sim racing", Formula One world champion Max Verstappen's passion for the competitive esport, and his efforts to get sim drivers into physical racing (Madeline Coleman/New York Times)

2025-02-16 16:35:01                nytimes.com

Madeline Coleman / New York Times: A look at “sim racing”, Formula One world champion Max Verstappen's passion for the competitive esport, and his efforts to get sim drivers into physical racing  —  Race teams always look up and down the motorsports ladder to identify rising stars.

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Sources: banks sold ~$4.7B of X's debt on February 13, more than the $3B they originally intended to sell, leaving ~$1B of X debt on their balance sheets (New York Times)

2025-02-13 23:10:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: Sources: banks sold ~$4.7B of X's debt on February 13, more than the $3B they originally intended to sell, leaving ~$1B of X debt on their balance sheets  —  The social media company is attracting investor interest because of Elon Musk's close ties to President Trump and a recent jump in revenue.

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Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine "doxxing" to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)

2025-02-13 05:35:00                nytimes.com

Ken Bensinger / New York Times: Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press  —  Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.

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After the Los Angeles fires, over 1M people donated $250M+ via GoFundMe, or $20M more than the service collected for all natural disasters worldwide in 2024 (New York Times)

2025-02-10 06:20:00                nytimes.com

New York Times: After the Los Angeles fires, over 1M people donated $250M+ via GoFundMe, or $20M more than the service collected for all natural disasters worldwide in 2024  —  Donations on the crowdfunding site to people and fire relief efforts have exceeded those for all natural disasters worldwide last year.

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Some users are wearing the Apple Watch on their ankles to get around problems, like skin conditions; some believe health metrics are more accurate on the ankle (Scott Cacciola/New York Times)

2025-02-08 16:10:01                nytimes.com

Scott Cacciola / New York Times: Some users are wearing the Apple Watch on their ankles to get around problems, like skin conditions; some believe health metrics are more accurate on the ankle  —  In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).

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An interview with The Sims designer Will Wright on the dollhouse game turning 25, the game's mechanics, infusing it with chaos, ants, The Sims Online, and more (Zachary Small/New York Times)

2025-02-04 06:30:01                nytimes.com

Zachary Small / New York Times: An interview with The Sims designer Will Wright on the dollhouse game turning 25, the game's mechanics, infusing it with chaos, ants, The Sims Online, and more  —  Will Wright kindly requests that admirers stop describing him as a god.  —  “I don't think God would concern himself with taking …

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A profile of Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, whose overblown statements about AI replacing humans point to a future that tech companies are working toward (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

2025-02-03 04:20:02                nytimes.com

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A profile of Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, whose overblown statements about AI replacing humans point to a future that tech companies are working toward  —  Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague pronouncements …

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In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

2025-02-02 02:01:03                nytimes.com

Kevin Roose / New York Times: In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents  —  In the past week, OpenAI's Operator has done the following things for me:  — Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon.

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Kalshi plans to let users buy into its prediction markets directly from brokerages, says it now has 908 active contracts, up from 691 on Election Day (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

2025-01-31 07:20:00                nytimes.com

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Kalshi plans to let users buy into its prediction markets directly from brokerages, says it now has 908 active contracts, up from 691 on Election Day  —  The platform, which recently hired Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, is seeking to tap Wall Street to expand its potential customer base.

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Experts say the Kremlin's throttling of YouTube is driving Russians to state-controlled platforms; Google data shows Russian traffic to YouTube is down ~66% YoY (Paul Sonne/New York Times)

2025-01-31 04:25:01                nytimes.com

Paul Sonne / New York Times: Experts say the Kremlin's throttling of YouTube is driving Russians to state-controlled platforms; Google data shows Russian traffic to YouTube is down ~66% YoY  —  The Kremlin is trying to cripple YouTube in Russia, internet experts say, pushing some people to state-controlled domestic alternatives.

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A profile of incoming White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who lacks a STEM degree and led the American AI Initiative during President Trump's first term (William J. Broad/New York Times)

2025-01-31 02:30:01                nytimes.com

William J. Broad / New York Times: A profile of incoming White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who lacks a STEM degree and led the American AI Initiative during President Trump's first term  —  Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.

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An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, "Source Code: My Beginnings", social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

2025-01-30 06:30:00                nytimes.com

David Streitfeld / New York Times: An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”, social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more  —  The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up.  —  Take billionaires.

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Meta executives say DeepSeek's breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with AI giants and vindicates the open-source strategy (New York Times)

2025-01-29 06:55:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: Meta executives say DeepSeek's breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with AI giants and vindicates the open-source strategy  —  The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use.  Now that bet is having an impact.

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DeepSeek challenges the "bigger is better" narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

2025-01-28 06:35:01                nytimes.com

Kevin Roose / New York Times: DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups  —  A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.

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A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 (New York Times)

2025-01-27 05:55:13                nytimes.com

New York Times: A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020  —  Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.

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Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance (New York Times)

2025-01-25 12:45:13                nytimes.com

New York Times: Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance  —  The president's promotion of a speculative digital coin left some crypto investors feeling blindsided, while others saw it as a gimmick …

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Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted (New York Times)

2025-01-25 02:30:02                nytimes.com

New York Times: Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted  —  The rebranding of a former White House digital office into the new Department of Government Efficiency signals its potential limits, budget experts said.

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Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts (New York Times)

2025-01-24 06:30:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts  —  Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

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CAIS and Scale AI release "Humanity's Last Exam", a new evaluation that they claim is the hardest-ever AI test, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice questions (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

2025-01-23 08:00:47                nytimes.com

Kevin Roose / New York Times: CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, a new evaluation that they claim is the hardest-ever AI test, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice questions  —  If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans …

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A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M (New York Times)

2025-01-23 06:10:03                nytimes.com

New York Times: A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M  —  The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

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How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder (New York Times)

2025-01-23 02:40:03                nytimes.com

New York Times: How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder  —  Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website …

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Sources: Elon Musk is set to get a West Wing office, putting him close to Trump, after Musk had for many days been asking about his level of access (New York Times)

2025-01-21 05:55:00                nytimes.com

New York Times: Sources: Elon Musk is set to get a West Wing office, putting him close to Trump, after Musk had for many days been asking about his level of access  —  The world's richest man had been expected to be situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, but a West Wing office would give him closer access to President Trump.

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A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)

2025-01-20 05:40:00                nytimes.com

Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors  —  The spy agency is trying to give its teams better tools and make it easier for the private sector to develop technology for their secretive work.

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As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

2025-01-18 16:20:00                nytimes.com

Kevin Roose / New York Times: As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear  —  So this may be the way TikTok ends: not with a bang, but with a whimper.  —  Over the past few weeks, as the Jan. 19 deadline loomed …

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Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users (New York Times)

2025-01-17 06:00:01                nytimes.com

New York Times: Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users  —  Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube are getting ready behind the scenes to welcome TikTok users, should the Chinese-owned app be banned from the United States.