Wall Street’s Patience for a Costly A.I. Arms Race Is Waning
Meta’s A.I. bet tests investors’ patienceMeta just reported its best-ever first-quarter earnings. But for investors, that’s not enough — and...
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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an...
How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork
I recently downloaded a virtual assistant that promised to ease the burdens of modern parenthood. The app is called Yohana,...
Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
In the dizzying race to build generative A.I. systems, the tech industry’s mantra has been bigger is better, no matter...
Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters...
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes
Caroline Mullet, a ninth grader at Issaquah High School near Seattle, went to her first homecoming dance last fall, a...
How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections
For a glimpse of where artificial intelligence is headed in election campaigns, look to India, the world’s largest democracy, as...
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would make a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an artificial intelligence giant in the...
Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Being an influencer can be a lot of work. Instagram thinks A.I. can lend a big hand.Instagram is pitching popular...
A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
There’s a problem with leading artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: We don’t really know how smart they...
A.I. Made These Movies Sharper. Critics Say It Ruined Them.
In 1998, Geoff Burdick, an executive at James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, was hunched in front of a 12-inch monitor at...
Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex...
Is That A.I. Mammogram Worth the Cost?
Clinics around the country are starting to offer patients a new service: having their mammograms read not just by a...
Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
Online data has long been a valuable commodity. For years, Meta and Google have used data to target their online...
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem.The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on...
Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.
In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms...
The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla
Artificial intelligence’s integration into everyday life has stirred up doubts and unsettling questions for many about humanity’s path forward. But...
Tennessee Makes A.I. an Outlaw to Protect Its Country Music and More
The floor in front of the stage at Robert’s Western World, a beloved lower Broadway honky-tonk in Nashville, was packed...
France Fines Google Amid A.I. Dispute With News Media
French regulators on Wednesday said Google failed to notify news publishers that it was using their articles to train its...
Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence
The government of Saudi Arabia plans to create a fund of about $40 billion to invest in artificial intelligence, according...
