‘This Is Going to Be Painful’: How a Bold A.I. Device Flopped
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.
By Tripp Mickle and
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.
By Tripp Mickle and
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
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A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
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It turns out A.I. is surprisingly Canadian.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker and
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Finding Your Roots With Help From Your Phone
Everyday tools and free apps on your mobile device can help you collect, translate and digitize new material for your family-tree files.
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The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.
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San Francisco’s Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars
Cable cars are still trundling up the city’s hills, but robotaxis from Waymo are shaping up as the city’s latest must-do for visitors.
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Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.
Google and Samsung used to update smartphone software for only three years. That has changed.
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Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation
Travel-focused A.I. bots and more eco-friendly transportation options in online maps and search tools can help you quickly organize your seasonal getaway.
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Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Here’s what to know.
By Jesus Jiménez
The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.
By Travis Diehl
The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars.
By Kenneth Chang
Tech companies are running low on new experiences to offer us. A new ad for the iPad contains revealing hints of where they could go next.
By Peter C. Baker
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
By Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.
By Jack Ewing
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
By Sheera Frenkel
There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.
By Farah Nayeri
Some science fiction authors have been using the concept of artificial intelligence in their books for decades. Try this short quiz to see how many works you remember.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.
By Nico Grant
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