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Articles from www.nytimes.com

How a tiny group of US lawmakers and aides wrote the TikTok ban bill, concealing their efforts to avoid TikTok's lobbying, alongside the DOJ and White House (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-25 Ban

Hands-on with the Meta AI chatbot: fails at basic search queries, stinks at counting, excels at editing existing paragraphs, quickly creates images, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-24 AI chatbot

Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app “bug” meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-24

A US judge sentences HeadSpin founder Manish Lachwani to 18 months and a $1M fine over inflated financials; HeadSpin raised $117M and hit a $1.1B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-22

Antenna: 29M+ people, or ~25% of US streaming subscribers, canceled 3+ services over the last two years as Americans increasingly jump between services (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-22 U.S.

How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-21

Sources describe the detention of Binance officials, including compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan, by Nigeria on charges of tax evasion and money laundering (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-20 Tax Nigeria

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)
2024-4-19 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)
2024-4-18 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)
2024-4-18

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)
2024-4-16

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)
2024-4-16 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)
2024-4-15 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)
2024-4-14 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)
2024-4-13 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)
2024-4-10 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)
2024-4-9 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)
2024-4-9 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)
2024-4-8

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)
2024-4-7 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)
2024-4-6 AI

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I (www.nytimes.com)
2024-4-6

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)
2024-4-4 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)
2024-4-3 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)
2024-4-3 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)
2024-4-2 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)
2024-4-2

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)
2024-4-2

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)
2024-4-1

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)
2024-4-1

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