Help, Bing’s Chatbot Won’t Stop Declaring Its Love For Me
A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine left me deeply unsettled. Even frightened.Read More
In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and...
Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Offers Some Puzzling and Inaccurate Responses
The new, A.I.-powered system was released to a small audience a week ago. Microsoft says it is working out its issues.Read More
Long in Uber’s Shadow, Lyft’s Financial Woes Thrust It Into the Spotlight
Lyft recovered from pandemic restrictions slower than Uber, and critics said it lacked the kind of ambitious investments that could distinguish itself from its...
Tesla Will Open Some Chargers to All Electric Vehicles
An agreement with the White House to allow electric cars made by other automakers is part of a broad drive to improve charging and...
FTX Negotiates for Return of $400 Million From Obscure Hedge Fund
The founders of the trading firm Modulo Capital are in talks with FTX about returning the investment that Sam Bankman-Fried made in the fund.Read...
Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.
Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that drivers were putting too much trust in systems...
Senators from both parties blasted Big Tech on Tuesday and called for the passage of federal legislation to regulate tech platforms in the midst...
Microsoft’s public demo last week of an AI-powered revamp of Bing appears to have included several factual errors, highlighting the risk the company and...
Judge orders Sam Bankman-Fried back to court after learning how he accessed the internet remotely
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A federal judge ordered Sam Bankman-Fried back to court this week after learning that the founder of crypto trading platform FTX accessed the internet...
How TikTok Evaded a Ban Again and Again, Until Now 
Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them 
U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner 
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