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Create a Private Social Space, Far From the Maddening Crowd

Even before the recent TikTok bans and mental-health concerns from the surgeon general, public attitudes toward social media have evolved. Many people are...

A Week With the Wild Children of the A.I. Boom

In Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get crushed by the...

Why an Octopus-like Creature Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.

A few months ago, while meeting with an A.I. executive in San Francisco, I spotted a strange sticker on his laptop. The sticker...

Elizabeth Holmes Set to Report to Prison to Begin More Than 11-Year Sentence

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced entrepreneur who was convicted of defrauding investors at her failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is expected to report to...

A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

A group of industry leaders is planning to warn on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence technology they are building may one day pose...

California Builds the Future, for Good and Bad. What’s Next?

While the task force hasn’t set an exact figure on how descendants of enslaved people might be compensated for overpolicing, mass incarceration and...

The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter)

When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, which generate conversational, original text, improve...

The Race to Make A.I. Smaller (and Smarter)

When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, which generate conversational, original text, improve...

Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT

The lawsuit began like so many others: A man named Roberto Mata sued the airline Avianca, saying he was injured when a metal...

The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning and A.I.’s Existential Risks

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’ Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | GoogleThe U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, says social media...

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