Articles from www.nytimes.com

Articles from www.nytimes.com

How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X (www.nytimes.com)
2024-9-1 Ban Brazil

Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users (www.nytimes.com)
2024-9-1 Brazil

A reporter tries fixing his reputation with AI chatbots, including by adding a “strategic text sequence” to data sources, and via an AI optimization startup (www.nytimes.com)
2024-9-1 Startup AI chatbot

Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-31 Google Apple Brazil VPN

Brazilian judge orders Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app in Brazil and says those using a VPN to access X would face a fine of ~$9,000 a day (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-31 Google Apple Brazil VPN

Sources: the cryptology part of France's charges against Pavel Durov raises concerns at providers of messaging apps with E2EE, like Signal, Apple, and WhatsApp (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-31 France Apple WhatsApp

Michael Lacey, co-founder of the classified ad site Backpage, gets five years in prison and a $3M fine for money laundering; two other executives get 10 years (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-30

Yelp sues Google, alleging Google abused its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in the local search and local search advertising markets (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-30 Google

Interviews with 14 Chinese VCs and entrepreneurs show many are setting up Silicon Valley firms only to find that any investment with Chinese ties is a hard sell (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-29 China Entrepreneur

Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-29 Google

Experts: Pavel Durov's arrest may be an outlier as the legal bar is high in the US and Europe to prosecute executives for content posted on their tech platforms (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-28 Europe

The crypto industry, heavily reliant on Telegram, has been Pavel Durov's loudest defender after his arrest; the Telegram-linked TON coin has a $13.7B market cap (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-28

A profile of Pavel Durov, a devout techno-optimist who trolled authorities online, started social network VKontakte in 2006, and left Russia in 2014 for Dubai (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-27 Russia Dubai

French prosecutors: Pavel Durov's arrest is part of a probe “against person unnamed” into CSAM, drug sales, and more on the app and not working with authorities (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-27 France

How Ukraine is working with private firms to test AI and other tech in drones to find land mines, save lives, and allow military forces to advance more quickly (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-26 AI Drone Ukraine

An excerpt from the book Character Limit details the chaotic revamp of Twitter Blue, including Elon Musk's haphazard planning and Esther Crawford's involvement (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-25 Twitter Elon Musk

Some San Francisco city officials say they're not lamenting X's departure from the city, as X bears little resemblance to the company that SF welcomed in 2012 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-25 San Francisco

Interviews with US political campaigns and tech companies: despite offers from 30+ companies for AI products, most campaigns are wary and largely not biting (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-22 AI

An interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on co-founding the company, autonomous weapons systems, AI, supporting Kamala Harris, Silicon Valley critics, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-18 Interview AI

A profile of Anthony Tan, the solo developer of Way to the Woods, a game that received Epic Games funding and remains unreleased nine years after its conception (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-18

OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-17 Iran

The San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu files a lawsuit that seeks to shut down 16 popular websites used to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-16 San Francisco

How University of California doctors used brain implants and AI to help an ALS patient speak again; the implants recognize words, and AI replicates his voice (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-15 AI California

A profile of Chinese self-driving startup WeRide, which is set for a US IPO as soon as this week; PitchBook: WeRide has raised $1.4B and was last valued at ~$5B (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-15 China IPO Startup

A look at some of the victims of the now-ubiquitous deepfake video scams; an analysis of 2,000+ deepfakes found Elon Musk was featured in ~25% of such scams (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-15 Elon Musk

A look at the growth of free streaming service Tubi, which does not require an account to use, is entirely dependent on ad revenue, and is not yet profitable (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-14

How Tether co-founder Brock Pierce's plan to use crypto to revitalize Puerto Rico's economy became mired in legal disputes and fights with his business partners (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-13 Puerto Rico

A look at Fragmentarium, a project to use AI to piece together digitized tablet fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-13 AI

How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal to restrict legal fees that bankroll cases against companies (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-12 Uber

At least eight US states, including Indiana and Louisiana, have passed laws or adopted rules so far in 2024 to curb students' smartphone use during school hours (www.nytimes.com)
2024-8-12

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