Articles from www.nytimes.com

Articles from www.nytimes.com

How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago Google

US federal data shows nearly 1.8M human warehouse workers, up 30% since early 2020, despite automation efforts, as robots struggle at crucial, simple tasks (www.nytimes.com)
3 days ago Robot

Musk asked X users to try “submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis” weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago

How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago Silver Elon Musk

A look at “blind box livestreaming”, an e-commerce trend in China that has become an entertaining and, some users and experts said, addictive pastime (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago China

Sources detail Elon Musk's role in Trump's transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Trump Elon Musk

Sources: top crypto executives are courting Bitcoin enthusiast and Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick; the industry is seeking to reshape the SEC and more (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Trump Bitcoin

Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 14.7M users in total (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Canada

A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago AI Robot

A US judge dismisses Ethan Zuckerman's lawsuit against Meta; Zuckerman sought to stop Meta from suing him over a tool to let users unfollow everyone on Facebook (www.nytimes.com)
14 days ago Facebook

How Russia openly escalated its online interference before the US election, including fabricated videos to support Trump, some of which had very little traction (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Trump Russia

Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, and more quietly courted Trump before the election, laying the groundwork for improved Silicon Valley and DC relations (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Trump Zuckerberg Tim Cook

Sources: before Trump's win, Elon Musk asked him to hire SpaceX staff as top government officials, including in the DOD, a sign of the benefits Musk may reap (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Trump Elon Musk SpaceX

What a Trump victory means for tech: antitrust woes die down, except for Google, TikTok survives, AI progress accelerates, social media shifts right, and more (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago Trump Google AI

Stand With Crypto: US voters elected 253 pro-crypto candidates to the House, compared to 115 anti-crypto candidates, and 16 pro-crypto Senate candidates (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago Senate

A PeakMetrics analysis of ~25K posts on X discussing election fraud in battleground states on November 5 finds that ~60% of posts were focused on Pennsylvania (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago

How FTC Chair Lina Khan became a US election hot topic, drawing increasing vitriol as the presidential vote neared; Trump is expected to replace Khan if he wins (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago Trump

The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago

Physical Intelligence, which plans to use AI to create brains for robots, raised $400M led by Jeff Bezos, Thrive Capital, and Lux Capital at a $2B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago AI Robot Intelligence Jeff Bezos

An analysis of 50 Telegram “election integrity” channels with 500K+ users finds disinformation, conspiracy theories, and violent imagery before the US election (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago Conspiracy

Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more (www.nytimes.com)
19 days ago U.S. Startup

AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs (www.nytimes.com)
20 days ago AI

Media Matters: from May to August 2024, the top 30 conservative YouTube channels posted 286 videos containing US election misinformation, racking up 47M+ views (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago YouTube

Kraken lays off workers and names Arjun Sethi as co-CEO; sources say the cuts amount to 15% of its workforce, or ~400 employees, including the COO and the CTO (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago

Former FTX chief engineer Nishad Singh avoids prison time over his role in the collapse of FTX, after a US judge lauded his cooperation with prosecutors (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago

Sources detail how TikTok quickly struck a deal with GoTo to buy a ~75% stake in Tokopedia, letting TikTok restart TikTok Shop in Indonesia in December 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Indonesia

A look at TikTok-owned Tokopedia's sprawling e-commerce logistics network for delivering goods across Indonesia, a country of 270M people and 17,000 islands (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Indonesia Logistics

Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago Trump China

How Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post in 2013 and a DC mansion in 2016, never made a splash in the capital, visiting only on occasion for glitzy events (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago Jeff Bezos

China, the leading producer of rare minerals, has made it harder in recent weeks for foreign companies, particularly chip makers, to buy such materials in China (www.nytimes.com)
27 days ago China

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