Sitting near a window inside Boston’s Four Seasons Hotel, overlooking a duck pond in the city’s Public Garden, Ray Kurzweil held up a sheet of […]
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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too
Early last year, a hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and stole details about the design of […]
Judge Backs Challenge to F.T.C.’s Noncompete Ban, at Least for Now
A federal judge on Wednesday backed an initial legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which is scheduled to take effect […]
How to Clean Up Your Phone’s Photo Library to Free Up Space
Are you getting ominous warnings about your phone’s storage? Have you ever whipped out your phone to show someone a certain photo and had to […]
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favored tool for writing during the early days of personal computing — […]
A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work on a weapon of the […]
Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights
The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the power of social media companies […]
Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created a face mask from human […]
Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match was wrong, […]
Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube Record labels — including Sony, Universal and Warner — are suing two leading […]