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Yesterday — 28 June 2024NYT: Technology

Uber and Lyft Agree to Give Massachusetts Drivers Minimum Pay

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By: Eli Tan
27 June 2024 at 20:24
The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.

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AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Users Hit by Service Outage in Europe

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By: Derek M. Norman
27 June 2024 at 13:52
The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.

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A network data outage in Europe, which one U.S. carrier attributed to a third-party vendor, appeared to begin on Wednesday afternoon and lasted into Thursday.

Campaign Tied to China Are Harassing a Dissident’s Teenage Daughter

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By: Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
27 June 2024 at 00:00
A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.

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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.

© Cydni Elledge for The New York Times

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
26 June 2024 at 13:35
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.

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.”

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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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.

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.

© Amr Alfiky for The New York Times

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.

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.

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.

Can Apple Rescue the Vision Pro?

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By: Kevin Roose
11 June 2024 at 16:33
The $3,500 “spatial 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.

Apple Intelligence Revealed at WWDC 2024 as Company Jumps Into AI Race

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By: Tripp Mickle
10 June 2024 at 17:06
The iPhone maker, which has been slow to embrace artificial intelligence, will weave it into the technology that runs on billions of devices.

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Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, at the company’s developer conference at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Hey, Siri! Let’s Talk About How Apple Is Giving You an A.I. Makeover.

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By: Tripp Mickle
9 June 2024 at 05:04
Apple, a latecomer to artificial intelligence, has struck a deal with OpenAI and developed tools to improve its Siri voice assistant, which it is set to showcase on Monday.

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A more conversational and versatile version of Siri will be shown at Apple’s annual developers conference on Monday.

Can I Opt Out of Meta’s A.I. Scraping on Instagram and Facebook? Sort Of.

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By: Jesus Jiménez
7 June 2024 at 15:49
Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Here’s what to know.

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Meta sent notifications to European users of Facebook and Instagram letting them know that their public posts could be used to train its A.I. — including its chatbot and other services it develops — starting on June 26. In the United States, public posts are already being used to train the services.

How the Humane AI Pin Flopped

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By: Tripp Mickle and Erin Griffith
7 June 2024 at 14:39
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.

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U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

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By: David McCabe
5 June 2024 at 23:48
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

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The Federal Trade Commission will be primarily responsible for examining Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s conduct in the artificial intelligence industry.

How Electric Car Batteries Might Aid the Grid (and Win Over Drivers)

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By: Jack Ewing
5 June 2024 at 11:36
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.

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A Mobility House customer using the company’s electric vehicle charging system in Munich.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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By: Sheera Frenkel
6 June 2024 at 11:17
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

© Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times, Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws

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By: Nico Grant
1 June 2024 at 05:04
Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

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Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, introduced A.I. Overviews, an A.I. feature in its search engine, last month.

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

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By: Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
1 June 2024 at 05:02
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.
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