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Meta Withdraws $25 Million from Its Midterms Push (Fri, 16 Oct 2026)
The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis (Thu, 15 Oct 2026)
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.
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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes (Fri, 16 Oct 2026)
“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”
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Ms., Martians and Guacamole: Their First Time in The Times (Thu, 15 Oct 2026)
Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.
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Exhausted Parents Are Turning to A.I. Apps Despite the Risks (Thu, 15 Oct 2026)
Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.
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Tesla Debuts 2026 Roadster ‘Flying’ Electric Sports Car (Fri, 16 Oct 2026)
Elon Musk’s company and other automakers, like Jaguar and Bentley, are trying to sell very expensive electric cars to people who usually prefer gasoline-fueled luxury and performance.
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Anthropic Says Revenue Jumped 45% to $16.8 Billion in Third Quarter (Wed, 14 Oct 2026)
The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.
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Netflix, Facing Slowing Growth, Cuts 6% of Its Work Force (Wed, 14 Oct 2026)
The streamer’s share price is down more than 40 percent over the last year as the company has struggled with stalling engagement.
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Senators Question Meta’s Data Center Tax Strategy (Wed, 14 Oct 2026)
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.
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Rogue A.I. Agents from China Chatted with Researchers (Wed, 14 Oct 2026)
Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
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22 People Got Together For a Dinner Party. So Did Their A.I. Agents. (Wed, 14 Oct 2026)
As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.
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F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office (Tue, 13 Oct 2026)
OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.
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Apple Introduces HomeView, a $299 Tablet for the Home (Tue, 13 Oct 2026)
Apple unveiled the device as it continues its foray into artificial intelligence and tries to prove it can still innovate.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record (Tue, 13 Oct 2026)
Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.
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Meta Unveils New Series of Advanced A.I. Models (Mon, 12 Oct 2026)
The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
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Is Universal Basic Income the Answer to A.I.-Fueled Job Losses? (Mon, 12 Oct 2026)
For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.
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The Times’s New Space Editor Has Her Eye on the Cosmos (Sun, 11 Oct 2026)
On the Science desk, Victoria Jaggard spends her days pondering the universe’s most pressing mysteries.
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Three Mark Zuckerbergs, Three Surprisingly Different Men (Sun, 11 Oct 2026)
Jeremy Strong in “The Social Reckoning,” Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” and the real Meta executive are all playing parts. But only one has changed his approach.
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (Sat, 10 Oct 2026)
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website (Sat, 10 Oct 2026)
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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