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Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
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Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search

Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $55 Billion Investment to Make A.I. Chips

The rocket company’s new semiconductor factory, called Terafab, is part of the billionaire’s increasing efforts to dominate artificial intelligence.
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Elon Musk’s Confidante Shivon Zilis Is Cast as His Inside Source at OpenAI

Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.
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Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School

“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
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The Hopelessness of ‘The Audacity’

In AMC’s merciless satire, the tech lords are extracting all they can from the business (and us) before everything goes to hell.
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Anthropic’s C.E.O. Says It Could Grow by 80 Times This Year

The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
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Meditating or Rebooting? A Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea.

Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul that is looking to spread Buddhism, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.
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American Factories Lag in Adopting A.I. This Drugmaker Is an Exception.

A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
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Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Go Commercial, Greg Brockman Testifies

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
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Apple Reaches $250 Million Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I.

Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence.
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Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Employees as A.I. Changes Work

The largest U.S. crypto exchange said it was cutting jobs because of cryptocurrency market volatility and to “optimize” for the artificial intelligence era.
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Ford Says an Affordable Electric Pickup Truck is Still Coming Next Year

Ford Motor has written off $20 billion in electric vehicle investments but says it is forging ahead with an electric pickup that will sell for $30,000 next year.
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S.E.C. Settles Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over His Twitter Disclosures

The agency, which has been pulling back on lawsuits against major companies, ended a case that had accused Mr. Musk of hiding his purchases of Twitter stock. He agreed to pay $1.5 million.
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Elon Musk’s Lawyers Ask OpenAI’s President Why He Is Worth $30 Billion

The legal team implied in a federal trial that Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, was driven by greed rather than building safe A.I.
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
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Jeeves and Ask.com Shut Down After Almost 30 Years

The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation.
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Driving Electric in Costa Rica Is Surprisingly Doable

The charging network is spotty, but it’s a small country.
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These Countries Embrace E.V.s to Avoid Oil Price Shocks

People in Costa Rica and other Latin American, Asian and African countries are increasingly buying electric vehicles to avoid spiking fuel prices.
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How Running Shoes Have Evolved, From Ancient Greece to a Record-Breaking Marathon Time

The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.
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