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Articles from www.nytimes.com

How China is testing more driverless cars than any other country, with 16+ cities letting 19+ companies test vehicles on public roads, aided by government help (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-13 China Autonomous Car

How some people are using the term “slop” as a descriptor for low-grade AI material, after emerging in reaction to the release of AI art generators in 2022 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-12 AI

Apple Vision Pro, while a remarkable piece of tech, needs updates to avoid gathering dust, and WWDC's new features like 3D “spatial photos” are modest tweaks (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-11 Apple

As US federal lawmakers drag out AI regulation, states make a push with a flurry of bills; TechNet: state lawmakers have proposed ~400 AI laws in recent months (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-11 AI

Sources: as Humane's Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10,000 orders by early April, the startup started talking to HP about a $1B+ sale; Humane has raised $240M (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-6 Startup AI

A look at the now-shuttered news site BNN Breaking, which former staff say mostly published AI-generated content; Microsoft had licensed BNN content for MSN.com (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-6 Microsoft AI

Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-6 Microsoft Nvidia

Several hospitals in London face major disruptions after a June 3 ransomware attack on Synnovis, which provides lab services for the UK's NHS (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-6 London

A group of nine current and former OpenAI staff, and two Google DeepMind staff, blow the whistle on what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-4 Google

After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-4 Amazon

Analysis: China's internet had 3.9M websites in 2023, down ~27% from 2017; Chinese-language websites are 1.3% of the global total, down 70% from 4.3% in 2013 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-4 China

How TikTok influencers helped a self-published author sell 1M+ copies of her book, including ~700K on the TikTok shop, showing how TikTok changed book marketing (www.nytimes.com)
2024-6-2

Auction house Christie's alerts the FBI and UK police about the hack that hobbled its website earlier this month, and begins telling clients of compromised data (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-31 FBI

After a Cruise car hit and dragged a pedestrian, executives say they're in no rush to get back on the road, as Cruise slows its breakneck development to a crawl (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-30

Researchers: an ex-Florida deputy sheriff who received asylum in Russia has built a network of 160+ fake news sites with the help of ChatGPT and other AI tools (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-30 Russia AI

How Meta open sourcing its Llama models helped make Mark Zuckerberg popular again in Silicon Valley, reversing developer skepticism; Llama 2 has 180M+ downloads (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-29 Zuckerberg

OpenAI creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore AI risks and begins training its new flagship AI model, which won't arrive for at least nine months (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-29 AI

OpenAI begins training its new flagship AI model, a process that could take nine months or more, and creates a Safety and Security Committee to explore risks (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-28 AI

The hacking group RansomHub claims to be behind the attack that hit Christie's, and threatens to release sensitive information about the auction house's clients (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-28

A look at the growing importance of ads for video streaming services, as Antenna says that 56% of new subscribers chose the cheaper ad-supported tier in Q1 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-28

Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on the state of Hollywood, shifting US tastes, programming strategy, ads, corporate activism, YouTube, live events, AI, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-27 AI YouTube Netflix programming

Ukrainian officials say Russia is deploying more advanced tools to disrupt Starlink, raising questions about its reliability against sophisticated adversaries (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-24 Russia Ukraine

US hospital operator Ascension, which has ~140 hospitals, remains down indefinitely after a May 8 cyberattack, an eerily similar hack to Change Healthcare (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-24

TikTok adds new measures to limit the spread of videos from state-affiliated media accounts, and disrupted 15 influence operations in January to April 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-23

A look at Paperless Post, a New York-based software company for sending online invitations and events that launched in 2009 and has sent ~650M invitations (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-22 New York

Gordon Bell, who helped design several influential minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation, including the 12-bit PDP-8, died on May 17 at age 89 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-22

DRAM inventor Robert H. Dennard, who also devised a concept known as Dennard scaling that was complementary to Moore's Law, died on April 23 at age 91 (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-19

Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn't considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China's disinformation (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-18 China Taiwan Ban

Bipartisan US Senators release a long-awaited plan for AI, calling for spending $32B annually by 2026 on R&D, creating a federal data privacy law, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-15 AI

Christie's confirms eight auctions will proceed this week after a “technology security issue” on May 9 knocked its website offline, the second breach in a year (www.nytimes.com)
2024-5-13

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