Technology
Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn
In May, CoreWeave, a provider of cloud computing services for A.I. companies, raised $1.1 billion, followed by $7.5 billion in...
How Tom Hanks’s Son Spawned a Hateful Meme Online
In the spring of 2021, Chet Hanks, the singer, actor and son of Tom, posted a series of statements and...
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favored tool for writing during the early...
Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla
Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla,...
In Ukraine War, A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work...
Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Florida and Texas Social Media Laws
The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the...
Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says
When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an...
Robots Get a Fleshy Face (and a Smile) in New Research
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.They have created a...
Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a...
Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeRecord labels — including Sony, Universal and Warner —...
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