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Articles from www.nytimes.com

Experts say the Kremlin's throttling of YouTube is driving Russians to state-controlled platforms; Google data shows Russian traffic to YouTube is down ~66% YoY (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-31 Russia Google YouTube

A profile of incoming White House OSTP director Michael Kratsios, who lacks a STEM degree and led the American AI Initiative during President Trump's first term (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-31 Trump U.S. AI

Elon Musk is using the same tactics he used during his Twitter takeover at DOGE, including offering exits to federal employees and testing engineering prowess (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-31 Twitter Elon Musk

An interview with Bill Gates on his memoir, “Source Code: My Beginnings”, social media, crypto, AI, billionaires, tax, Trump, his parents, Microsoft, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-30 Trump Microsoft Tax Interview AI Bill Gates

How employees at Meta, Google, and more have quietly protested tech's rightward shift, as Mark Zuckerberg and others embrace Trump and muffle internal dissent (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-30 Trump Google Zuckerberg

Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government so far, accompanied by friends and staff, as he races to cut staff; Musk's plane has not left DC since January 20 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-30 Elon Musk

Meta executives say DeepSeek's breakthrough shows that upstarts now have a chance to innovate and compete with AI giants and vindicates the open-source strategy (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 AI

Chinese state media and social media viewed DeepSeek's success as a shot in the arm for a discouraged tech industry and a public suffering a stagnating economy (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 China

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative driving the AI arms race in recent years and suggests that we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-29 Startup AI

DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative underpinning the AI arms race in recent years and suggests we may see more investment into smaller startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of 15K+ contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B on tech since 2020 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-27 Trump Immigration

Some crypto executives worry Trump's memecoin undercut the industry's credibility at the very moment crypto is seeking a prominent place in mainstream finance (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-26 Trump

Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-25 Elon Musk Budget

The TikTok ban forced a dilemma on US tech companies: risk alienating a mercurial president or risk breaking federal law and face up to billions in penalties (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 Facebook Instagram

CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest- AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 AI

CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, a new evaluation that they claim is the hardest-ever AI test, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice questions (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-24 AI

A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 China AI

How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother, Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 Trump

Antenna estimates Netflix drove 650K+ new US subscribers in the days surrounding the NFL games, and the Paul-Tyson fight drove 1.43M US subscription sign-ups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-23 Netflix

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Cryptocurrency

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Trump Cryptocurrency

Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99, standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-22 Netflix Canada Portugal

Sources: Elon Musk is set to get a West Wing office, putting him close to Trump, after Musk had for many days been asking about his level of access (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-21 Trump Elon Musk

A look at the CIA's AI use, including a chatbot that lets analysts talk to virtual versions of foreign presidents and prime ministers to predict their behaviors (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-20 AI chatbot

Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-20

As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-19 U.S.

An interview with Marc Andreessen on his evolution from a “normie Democrat” to a Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the new administration (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-18 Trump Interview Democrat

Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17 YouTube Instagram

The FTC bans GM from selling driver behavior and geolocation data to consumer reporting agencies for five years, after finding GM didn't properly inform drivers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-1-17

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