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After 20 Years of Facebook, Lawmakers Are Still Trying to Fix It
It’s been 20 years since Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg released a program called Thefacebook to his college community, launching a…
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Google Parent Alphabet’s Spending on Acquisitions Cratered in 2023
Pennies were pinched in Mountain View last year. For much of its existence as a public company, Google had made…
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Craig Wright Claims He’s Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Can He Prove It in Court?
Satoshi Nakamoto is the founding father of cryptocurrency—and a mystery. In October 2008, Nakamoto gave Bitcoin to the world. Then…
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The Mystery of the $400 Million FTX Heist May Have Been Solved
When more than $400 million worth of crypto was mysteriously pulled out of the coffers of what was once the…
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I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
The most famous virtual valets around today—Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant—are a lot less impressive than the latest AI-powered chatbots…
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‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO
TikTok has irreversibly bent our culture’s trajectory, but that doesn’t guarantee it’ll be around to reap the benefits. (India banned…
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Linda Yaccarino Says X Needs More Moderators After All
When Elon Musk took over Twitter, since rebranded as X, his favorite letter of the alphabet, he went on a…
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Google Splits Up Its Responsible AI Team
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed his workers the company priorities for 2024 this month, developing AI responsibly was top…
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Hulu Shows Jarring Anti-Hamas Ad Likely Generated With AI
Hulu ran an anti-Hamas ad that appears to be made using artificial intelligence to show an idealized version of Gaza—claiming…
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US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools
The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police…
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