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Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
Ten Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the tech company this week asking about its expanding contracts under the Trump administration.
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China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., Researchers Say (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
A new report comes amid rising concern about how China will use new tools to power covert actions, as Western intelligence services also embrace the technology.
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22 New Jobs A.I. Could Give You (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
In a few key areas, humans will be more essential than ever.
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WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App (Mon, 16 Jun 2025)
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
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Trump to Again Extend TikTok’s Reprieve From U.S. Ban (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
The president plans to sign another executive order this week that would give the popular video app more time to change its ownership structure.
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Senate Passes Cryptocurrency and Stablecoin Rules Bill (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
The bill was a significant step toward giving the cryptocurrency industry the credibility and legitimacy it has sought, without limitations it has worked to head off.
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Tell Us: How Are You Using A.I. at Work? (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
Has A.I. become a part of your daily work routines? We want to know.
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Trumps Promote American Bitcoin, a New Crypto Mining Venture (Mon, 16 Jun 2025)
The debut of American Bitcoin, a mining firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has heightened the ethical concerns swirling around the Trump presidency.
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Trump’s Trade and Tax Policies Start to Stall U.S. Battery Boom (Mon, 16 Jun 2025)
Battery companies are slowing construction or reconsidering big investments in the United States because of tariffs on China and the proposed rollback of tax credits.
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Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? (Tue, 17 Jun 2025)
Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.
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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. (Mon, 16 Jun 2025)
The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?
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Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”
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Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That? (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.
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Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.
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They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
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Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
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Google DeepMind and National Hurricane Center Join on New A.I. Model (Thu, 12 Jun 2025)
The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.
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Nintendo Switch 2 Review: Bigger and Better, for a Higher Price (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.
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Charging Your EV May Be Getting Easier, Even if It’s Not a Tesla (Fri, 13 Jun 2025)
It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more likely to work — and not just for Teslas.
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This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job (Wed, 11 Jun 2025)
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”
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