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Today β€” 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.

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.

Β© Philip Keith for The New York Times

Boston Consultant Group’s Vladimir Lukic says clients are eager to figure out what to do with generative A.I.
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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 β€” and more willing to spend money on them β€” 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.

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.

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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Can Apple Rescue the Vision Pro?

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By: Kevin Roose
11 June 2024 at 16:33
The $3,500 β€œspatial computing” device has gathered dust on my shelf. Can tweaks and upgrades save it from obsolescence?

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Apple’s $3,500 first-generation Vision Pro is going for as little as $2,500 on resale websites.

Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

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By: Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
25 May 2024 at 13:42
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

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Members of the Achilles Drone battalion of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They depend on Starlink service for communications and to conduct drone strikes.

Nvidia, Powered by A.I. Boom, Reports Soaring Revenue and Profits

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By: Don Clark
22 May 2024 at 18:14
The Silicon Valley company was again lifted by sales of its artificial intelligence chips, but it faces growing competition and heightened expectations.

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, in March. The company reported revenue of $26 billion in its latest quarter, tripling its sales from a year earlier.

Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Court Rules

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By: David Yaffe-Bellany
21 May 2024 at 16:39
For years, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian cryptocurrency enthusiast, claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Then the courts got involved.

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Craig Steven Wright, center, arriving at High Court in London, where he was sued over his claim that he invented Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

Why TikTok Users Are Blocking Celebrities

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By: Elizabeth Paton
18 May 2024 at 10:36
A TikTok movement is calling for followers to block famous people over their stances on the Israel-Hamas war. It began at the Met Gala.

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Zendaya at the Met Gala last week in a couture gown. Her image, spliced with photographs of Palestinian children, contributed to a TikTok movement.

Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

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By: Michael Forsythe and Gabriel J.X. Dance
13 May 2024 at 21:23
An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon.

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The bitcoin mine in Cheyenne, Wyo., has been ordered to cease operations immediately.

Reddit Posts $575 Million Loss Tied to I.P.O. but Also Strong Growth

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By: Mike Isaac
7 May 2024 at 17:04
Reddit’s first earnings report as a public company showed leaps in users and advertising revenue, along with expenses related to its initial public offering.

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The New York Stock Exchange on Reddit’s first day of trading in March. On Tuesday, the company reported a 48 percent increase in quarterly revenue.

Apple Reports Decline in Sales and Profit Amid iPhone Struggles in China

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By: Tripp Mickle
2 May 2024 at 18:18
The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.

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Apple’s sales were down 8 percent in China over the three months that ended in March.

Campus Protests Give Russia, China and Iran Fuel to Exploit U.S. Divide

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By: Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
2 May 2024 at 16:32
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.

Β© Amir Hamja/The New York Times

A protester with a Palestinian flag on a Columbia University building on Monday. So far, there is little evidence that U.S. adversaries have provided material or organizational support to the protests.

The Judge Deciding Google’s Landmark Antitrust Case

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By: Steve Lohr
2 May 2024 at 05:03
Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.

Β© Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru; Photographs by Jim Wilson/The New York Times and Getty Images

Amazon Reports $143.3 Billion in Revenue for First Quarter of 2024

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By: Karen Weise
30 April 2024 at 18:24
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.

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Amazon has been focusing on shipping products quickly by putting more items closer to customers. The company’s cloud computing business is also growing.

From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

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By: Oliver Whang
30 April 2024 at 15:09
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

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For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.

β€˜To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

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By: Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
26 April 2024 at 10:43
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

Β© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.

U.S. Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot

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By: J. Edward Moreno
26 April 2024 at 16:03
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating Tesla’s recall of its Autopilot system.

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

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By: Karen Weise
25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.

Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada

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By: Jack Ewing
25 April 2024 at 13:51
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.

Β© Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

Honda has said that it would retool its factory in Marysville, Ohio, to make electric vehicles in 2026. The investment in Canada is a sign that the company expects the technology to grow in popularity.

TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?

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By: Cecilia Kang
25 April 2024 at 08:57
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

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Experts on tech legislation say that the unique speed of the passage of the TikTok legislation is highly unlikely to be repeated.

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.

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By: Mike Isaac
24 April 2024 at 18:31
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

Β© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

Quarterly results on Wednesday underscored Meta’s repositioning of itself as a company poised to capitalize on the industrywide fervor for artificial intelligence.
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