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Today — 26 June 2024NYT: Technology

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Biden Admin in Social Media Case

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By: Adam Liptak
26 June 2024 at 10:32
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.

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Consulting Firms Are the Early Winners of the AI Boom

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By: Tripp Mickle
26 June 2024 at 10:26
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.

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Boston Consultant Group’s Vladimir Lukic says clients are eager to figure out what to do with generative A.I.

Off to Norway, With Three A.I. Travel Assistants

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By: Ceylan Yeğinsu
26 June 2024 at 05:02
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put three virtual assistants to the test.

The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants

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By: Tripp Mickle
26 June 2024 at 05:01
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.

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Boston Consultant Group’s Vladimir Lukic says clients are eager to figure out what to do with generative A.I.
Yesterday — 25 June 2024NYT: Technology

Cruise, G.M.’s Self-Driving Subsidiary, Names Marc Whitten as C.E.O.

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By: Eli Tan
25 June 2024 at 18:14
After a year of safety problems, layoffs and mass executive departures, G.M. is trying to find stability for its futuristic driverless car business.

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Cruise pulled its driverless cars off roads last year.

Cruise, the Self-Driving Car Subsidiary of G.M., Names a New C.E.O.

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By: Eli Tan
25 June 2024 at 16:51
After a year of safety problems, layoffs and mass executive departures, G.M. is trying to find stability for its futuristic driverless car business.

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Cruise pulled its driverless cars off roads last year.

Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in EV Maker Rivian

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By: Jack Ewing
25 June 2024 at 17:56
VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.

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The Volkswagen investment provides cash to Rivian, which has struggled to ramp up manufacturing of its electric pickups and sport utility vehicles.

Microsoft Teams Bundle Hit With E.U. Antitrust Charges

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By: Adam Satariano
25 June 2024 at 06:40
The tech giant has been accused of stifling competition by packaging its video conferencing app with other tools like Word and Excel.

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Microsoft’s French headquarters outside Paris. The Microsoft case stems from the pandemic, when collaboration tools like Zoom, Slack and Teams became essential for remote workforces.
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Apple’s App Store Policies Charged Under New E.U. Competition Law

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By: Adam Satariano and Tripp Mickle
24 June 2024 at 14:55
The company’s App Store policies are illegal under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, according to regulators in Brussels.

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Margrethe Vestager, who oversees competition policy at the European Commission, said Apple’s App Store policies prevent consumers from being aware of better offers.

How Netflix’s Corporate Culture Has Changed

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By: Nicole Sperling
24 June 2024 at 05:01
The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.

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The new memo highlights Netflix’s philosophy of “People Over Process” first: “We hire unusually responsible people who thrive on this openness and freedom.”

Japan and South Korea Are Fighting Over an App at a Tense Time

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By: River Akira Davis
24 June 2024 at 00:01
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.

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Diplomats and international relations experts fear that a rift over the ownership of a Naver-SoftBank venture could again put stress on ties between Japan and South Korea.

How Pet Care Became a Big Business

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By: Katie Thomas
24 June 2024 at 09:31
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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Heather Massey of Carlton, Ga., with her dog, Lunabear. She is still paying off a bill for scans and care six years after her previous dog, Ladybird, was diagnosed with brain cancer.

What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data

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By: Brian X. Chen
23 June 2024 at 12:50
Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?

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These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online

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By: Cecilia Kang
22 June 2024 at 05:03
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.

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Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carson’s suicide in 2020. The apple’s variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carson’s age when he died.

CDK Global Cyberattack Disrupts Car Sales in U.S. and Canada

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By: Neal E. Boudette
21 June 2024 at 12:14
The attacks on a software provider, CDK Global, affect systems that store customer records and automate paperwork and data for sales and service.

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A cybersecurity breach has disrupted sales at many car lots for several days.

260 McNuggets? McDonald’s Ends A.I. Drive-Through Tests Amid Errors

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By: Hank Sanders
21 June 2024 at 12:07
Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendy’s say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.

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TikTok Lays Out Past Efforts to Address U.S. Concerns Over Potential Ban

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By: Sapna Maheshwari
20 June 2024 at 16:43
The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.

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TikTok creators gathered for a news conference with members of Congress in March. TikTok has said that a ban of the app would violate the First Amendment.

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Co-Founder Who Helped Oust Sam Altman, Starts His Own Company

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By: Cade Metz
19 June 2024 at 20:24
Ilya Sutskever’s new start-up, Safe Superintelligence, aims to build A.I. technologies that are smarter than a human but not dangerous.

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Last year, Ilya Sutskever helped create what was called a Superalignment team inside OpenAI that aimed to ensure that A.I. technologies would not do harm.

Nvidia, with $3.34 Trillion Market Cap, Becomes Most Valuable Company

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By: Tripp Mickle and Joe Rennison
18 June 2024 at 17:29
The chip maker’s stock price has jumped over the last year thanks to its stranglehold on the market for the chips needed to build A.I. systems.

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On Titan Submersible Anniversary, World Rethinks Deep Sea Exploration

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By: William J. Broad
18 June 2024 at 10:15
A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.

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A 2003 expedition by a piloted submersible to the wreckage of the Titanic on the sea floor, as documented in the James Cameron film “Ghosts of the Abyss.” A pair of robots are scheduled to revisit the site next month.

How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon

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By: Noam Scheiber
18 June 2024 at 10:19
An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.

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A line for a unionization vote at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island in 2022. The Teamsters are ramping up efforts to organize Amazon workers nationwide.

FTC Sues Adobe Over Hard-to-Cancel Subscriptions and Fees

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By: David McCabe
17 June 2024 at 14:45
The maker of Photoshop and other popular design software hid details of expensive cancellation fees, according to a Justice Department lawsuit.

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David Wadhwani, the president of Adobe’s digital media business.

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development

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By: Steve Lohr and Spencer Lowell
17 June 2024 at 05:03
In high-tech labs, workers are generating data to train A.I. algorithms to design better medicine, faster. But the transformation is just getting underway.

Chips in a container at Terray Therapeutics in Monrovia, Calif. Each of the custom-made chips has millions of minuscule wells for measuring drug screening reactions quickly and accurately.

Can A.I. Answer the Needs of Smaller Businesses? Some Push to Find Out.

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By: Sydney Ember
17 June 2024 at 05:03
Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.

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Allison Giddens, a co-president at Win-Tech, an aerospace manufacturing company in Kennesaw, Ga., keeps a note on her computer monitor to remind her to make use of ChatGPT more often.

Elon Musk Got 72% in Tesla Shareholder Vote on Pay

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By: Jason Karaian and Jack Ewing
14 June 2024 at 16:31
About 72 percent of shares in the balloting affirmed the chief executive’s lucrative stock award. The company hopes to get a court to reinstate it.

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Tesla’s decisive shareholder vote affirming Elon Musk’s stock award was a vote of confidence in his leadership of the electric car company.

Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.

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By: Kashmir Hill
13 June 2024 at 20:07
The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.

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A demonstration of Clearview AI’s facial recognition smartphone app in 2019.

Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.

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By: Kashmir Hill
13 June 2024 at 20:07
The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.

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A demonstration of Clearview AI’s facial recognition smartphone app in 2019.

Musk’s Friends and Fans Applaud Shareholder Vote on His Payday

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By: Eli Tan
13 June 2024 at 20:05
On the social media platform X, which Mr. Musk owns, reactions to a vote that reaffirmed Mr. Musk’s $45 billion package were buoyant.

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Tesla shareholders reaffirmed a compensation package of more than $45 billion for Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino Touts Advertiser Return After Musk Takeover

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By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
13 June 2024 at 18:40
Still, Elon Musk, who owns the platform, and his chief executive Linda Yaccarino, have work to do to grow the business, leaders told employees.

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Linda Yaccarino told X employees that 65 percent of advertisers had returned to the platform since January, while admitting that the business continues to face advertising headwinds.

Lawmakers Question Brad Smith About Microsoft’s China Business

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By: Karen Weise
13 June 2024 at 16:03
Brad Smith testified before a House committee a year after Chinese hackers infiltrated Microsoft’s technology and penetrated government networks.

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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told the House Committee on Homeland Security that his company’s presence in China served American interests.

Tesla Shareholders Approve C.E.O. Elon Musk’s Pay Package

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By: Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
13 June 2024 at 19:42
The vote was seen as a referendum on his management of the electric car maker and on the limits of executive pay.

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Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, which is seeking to reverse a court decision blocking a lucrative stock award.

An A.I.-Powered App Helps Readers Make Sense of Classic Texts

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By: Steven Kurutz
13 June 2024 at 16:33
Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.

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Along with an intellectually curious patron, the professors John Kaag, left, and Clancy Martin have started an unusual publishing venture.

Lawmakers Question Brad Smith About Microsoft’s China Business

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By: Karen Weise
13 June 2024 at 16:03
Brad Smith testified before a House committee a year after Chinese hackers infiltrated Microsoft’s technology and penetrated government networks.

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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told the House Committee on Homeland Security that his company’s presence in China served American interests.

Fake News Still Has a Home on Facebook

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By: Stuart A. Thompson
13 June 2024 at 14:35
Christopher Blair, a renowned “liberal troll” who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I.

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Christopher Blair runs a satirical Facebook group from his home in Maine.

Tesla’s Nordic Shareholders Seek to Promote Workers’ Rights in Vote

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By: Melissa Eddy
13 June 2024 at 00:00
Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.

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A Tesla facility in Stockholm last year. The auto maker’s shareholders will vote on a measure, inspired by a strike by Tesla workers in Sweden, urging the company to engage in collective bargaining.

What to Know About Europe’s Extra Tariffs on Chinese Electric Cars

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By: Melissa Eddy
12 June 2024 at 14:09
The tariffs had been expected for months, but many European automakers warned that they would drive up prices for consumers and set off a trade war with China.

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Electric cars made by BYD waiting to be loaded at a port in eastern China. Competition in Europe for E.V.s made in China has led to lower prices.
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