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Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried (Wed, 07 Oct 2026)
A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.
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Inside Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao’s Life After Prison (Sun, 04 Oct 2026)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Why A.I. Agents Are Going Rogue (Wed, 07 Oct 2026)
Our journalists Sheera Frenkel and Dylan Freedman break down what A.I. agents are, how they differ from chatbots and why A.I. companies are worried about them now.
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A.I. Music Fraudster Who Drew Millions in Royalties Is Sentenced to 18 Months (Wed, 07 Oct 2026)
Prosecutors say Michael Smith flooded music-streaming platforms with bots that repeatedly streamed his A.I.-generated music, earning him as much as $8 million.
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Energy Firms Try to Squeeze More Power Out of Old Nuclear Plants (Tue, 06 Oct 2026)
It takes a long time to build new nuclear plants. So, some U.S. companies are looking to get more electricity out of reactors that already exist.
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In Race With U.S., China Struggles to Recruit Foreign A.I. Researchers (Tue, 06 Oct 2026)
China’s booming artificial intelligence sector has given local researchers good reason to remain in the country, but it has yet to lure overseas scientists despite a government push.
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Gears of War: E-Day Is Nostalgic With Rich Visuals (Tue, 06 Oct 2026)
In Gears of War: E-Day, it’s fun to see the origins of beloved characters in grand scale, even if its play feels conservative.
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South Korea Investigates Possible Use of A.I. in Hackings on Its Banks (Tue, 06 Oct 2026)
The president said there were signs that such models were used in recent attacks on several banks involving customer data. Police are investigating.
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Mixed Human Feelings After a Day at a Park Full of Robots (Tue, 06 Oct 2026)
I went to Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul to see how we might one day live with robots. It was part cutting-edge technology, part theatrics.
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US Solar Panel Makers Try to Catch China With a Big Leap in Technology (Mon, 05 Oct 2026)
Manufacturers say they are close to perfecting a new, more efficient solar panel that could help the United States reclaim ground it lost.
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Are Babies Conscious? (Mon, 05 Oct 2026)
By pinpointing when it begins in young humans, scientists hope to better understand what consciousness is, and how it arises, in all of us.
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Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played (Mon, 05 Oct 2026)
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.
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An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine (Wed, 07 Oct 2026)
Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?
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Sales of Hulking Pickups and S.U.V.s Sag as Fuel Prices Soar (Fri, 02 Oct 2026)
Sales of big pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles have dipped as more Americans buy hybrids and smaller cars.
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A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous? (Fri, 02 Oct 2026)
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
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Amazon Promises More Local Funding and Less Secrecy Around Data Centers (Fri, 02 Oct 2026)
The internet giant is the latest technology company trying to address increasingly hostile local sentiment toward data center projects.
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Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs. (Fri, 02 Oct 2026)
Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States.
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Amazon Settles Lawsuit Over Claims of Slow Deliveries to Low-Income Areas (Thu, 01 Oct 2026)
The tech giant will refund $7.25 million in Prime membership fees to affected customers and pay an additional $1 million to settle the suit brought by the District of Columbia.
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Swedish Company Uses A.I. Likeness of Greta Garbo in Ad (Fri, 02 Oct 2026)
The Swedish American actress, who died in 1990, was brought back in a A.I.-generated ad for a manufacturing company.
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Who’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue? (Sat, 03 Oct 2026)
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy.
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What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’? (Thu, 01 Oct 2026)
The podcast’s next chapter begins this week.
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When Data Centers Cluster Together, How Dirty Are They? One County Wants Answers. (Thu, 01 Oct 2026)
An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately.
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