Articles from www.nytimes.com

Articles from www.nytimes.com

Meta plans to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in the US and 12+ other countries, and announces two Llama 3 models (www.nytimes.com)
15 hours ago Facebook AI chatbot Instagram WhatsApp

US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok's complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass' failed real estate venture (www.nytimes.com)
18 hours ago Republican

Colorado Governor Jared Polis signs a bill that, for the first time in the US, expands the state's personal privacy law to include consumer “neural data” (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago

Ghost kitchens and virtual restaurant brands, which boomed during the pandemic after raising billions, are disappearing due to overtaxed kitchens and complaints (www.nytimes.com)
2 days ago

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing “Creator AI” chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's “voice” (www.nytimes.com)
3 days ago AI chatbot Instagram

As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (www.nytimes.com)
4 days ago Netflix

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI models costing ~$10B to train, why AI models are close to being “able to replicate and survive in the wild”, more (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago AI

A profile of Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch, who says, as an atheist, he is uncomfortable with Silicon Valley's “AGI rhetoric” and “religious” fascination with AI (www.nytimes.com)
6 days ago AI

How TSMC is transforming the Japanese farm town of Kikuyo into a key node in Asia's chip supply chain, backed by billions of dollars from Japan's government (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago Japan Asia

In some US schools, boys have used AI “nudification” apps to create and share deepfakes of clothed female classmates, leading districts to scramble to respond (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago AI

Docs: after months of staffers sniping about the war in Gaza, Google is tweaking its internal message board Memegen, removing “thumbs down”, post metrics, more (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago Google

Maryland's legislature passed two privacy bills, one restricting data collection practices and the other focused on minors' safety on social platforms (www.nytimes.com)
11 days ago

Sources: OpenAI transcribed 1M+ hours of YouTube videos through Whisper and used the text to train GPT-4; Google also transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago Google YouTube

Sources: Meta debated buying a publisher like Simon & Schuster for AI training data and weighed using copyrighted online data even if that meant facing lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago AI

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I (www.nytimes.com)
12 days ago

An interview with Andres Freund, a Microsoft database engineer working on PostgreSQL, on discovering the XZ Utils backdoor, doubting his own findings, and more (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Database Microsoft Interview

An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes (www.nytimes.com)
15 days ago Interview AI

George Carlin's estate settles with the makers of Dudesy, who agree to remove their YouTube video and podcast they originally claimed used an “AI” George Carlin (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI YouTube

A profile of MIT labor economist David Autor, an unlikely AI optimist who says AI may help restore “the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labor market” (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI

A profile of hiking app AllTrails, which exploded during the pandemic, has raised $225M+, and now focuses on helping users “find your outdoors”, not just trails (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago

A profile of Matt Farley, who has released thousands of songs under various pseudonyms on streaming services with the goal of matching nearly any search query (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago

Dan Lynch, founder of Interop, a computer networking equipment exhibition that helped accelerate TCP/IP adoption and internet commercialization, dies at age 82 (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago

A profile of YC's Garry Tan, whose combative online persona has sparked controversies as he tries to shift SF politics from idealistic progressivism to centrism (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago

Experts and documents: the US is years from having a reliable alternative source for time and navigation services if GPS signals are interrupted by adversaries (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago GPS

Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by “Hey, Meta”, are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago AI Ban

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago China AI Immigration

Israeli officials detail an expansive and experimental facial recognition program in Gaza to catalog Palestinians without their knowledge, starting in 2023 (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago Israel Facial Recognition

A look at SRI's Future Concepts division, a research organization comprised of SRI and PARC researchers, as some argue that basic tech research labs are passé (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago

US investors, like General Atlantic and Sequoia, are facing increased pressure from state and federal lawmakers about their investments in Chinese companies (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago China

This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago

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