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Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that outperforms traditional methods on forecasts up to 15 days and is better at foreseeing extreme events (www.nytimes.com)
2024-12-5 Google AI

District of Columbia AG sues Amazon over allegedly violating consumer laws by making slower deliveries to Prime users in historically lower-income neighborhoods (www.nytimes.com)
2024-12-5 Amazon

People living in Rome and cultural leaders criticize Airbnb's planned Colosseum experience for 32 guests in May 2025, saying it will demean a cultural treasure (www.nytimes.com)
2024-12-4 Airbnb

Internal docs: in early 2021, Google's lawyers, policy team, and more worried that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel may enable human rights violations (www.nytimes.com)
2024-12-3 Israel Google

How Amazon Haul, a storefront for fashion, home, and other items at “ultralow prices”, reflects the “haul” shopping phenomenon popularized by YouTube and TikTok (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-30 Amazon YouTube

Details of Australia's social media ban for kids remain unclear, such as how to enforce it and what platforms it covers; kids and parents won't face punishment (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-29 Australia Ban

Mark Zuckerberg met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27; sources: Zuckerberg, who has had a strained relationship with Trump, initiated the meeting (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-28 Trump Zuckerberg

An interview with Margrethe Vestager, the EU's tech antitrust enforcer since 2014, on her “partly successful” tenure, US collaboration, Trump, the DSA, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-26 Trump Interview

Huawei unveils the $760+ Mate 70 series, powered by its HarmonyOS Next, calling the flagship device the “smartest” Mate phone, as it faces US chip curbs (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-26

US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-25 AI Layoffs Job Market

Sources: Intel, the biggest recipient of money under the CHIPS Act, will see its funding drop to less than $8B from the $8.5B that was announced earlier in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-25 Intel

How researchers used AI in tandem with drones to find 303 previously uncharted Nazca Lines in Peru, almost doubling the number that had been mapped as of 2020 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-24 AI Drone

Sources: the US government launched an investigation into the Salt Typhoon hack after Microsoft alerted it and telecom companies about anomalies (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-24 Microsoft

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks (www.nytimes.com)
2024-11-23 China Intelligence Senate

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)
2024-11-20 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)
2024-11-19 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)
2024-11-19

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)
2024-11-18 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)
2024-11-14 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)
2024-11-14 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)
2024-11-13 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)
2024-11-13 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)
2024-11-10 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)
2024-11-8 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)
2024-11-8 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)
2024-11-7 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)
2024-11-7 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)
2024-11-7 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)
2024-11-7 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)
2024-11-6

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