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Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions

National security employees with ties to Asia say U.S. counterintelligence officers wrongly regard them as potential spies and ban them from jobs. https://nyti.ms/47iDNTq

A 9-Month Cruise Is TikTok’s Favorite New ‘Reality Show’

Social media users, gripped by the potential for drama on Royal Caribbean’s world cruise, have turned the ship’s unwitting passengers into “cast members” overnight. https://nyti.ms/3H2H5Q0

How Tracking and Technology in Cars Is Being Weaponized by Abusive Partners

Apps that remotely track and control cars are being weaponized by abusive partners. Car manufacturers have been slow to respond, according to victims and experts. https://nyti.ms/3tBaMEN

Un estudiante mantuvo en secreto una criptomina de 6 millones de dólares

Una disputa legal en un pequeño pueblo de Texas revela inesperadamente cómo los ciudadanos chinos pueden mover dinero a Estados Unidos sin llamar la atención de las autoridades de ninguno de los dos países. https://nyti.ms/48zVGOz

Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law

The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines. https://nyti.ms/48fPZps

An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory

Alexander Reben is taking his tech-savvy perspective to OpenAI, a company that some in the art world believe is a threat to their future. https://nyti.ms/3NLCnKt

Michael Cohen Used Fake Cases Cited by A.I. to Seek an End to Court Supervision

Donald Trump’s former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction. He enlisted the help of Google Bard. https://nyti.ms/3NGRViv

Need a Home for 80,000 Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle.

Earlier this year, George and Roxanne Miller relocated the world’s largest collection of mechanical puzzles from their home in Florida. But first they took a road trip. https://nyti.ms/3NKzl9j

Apple Watch Sales to Resume, for Now

The company pulled two watches from stores after losing a patent case, but an appeals court temporarily paused enforcement of that ruling while the legal battle continues. https://nyti.ms/48fEbDq

California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight

A mainstay of cargo transport will be phased out at ports as California bans new registrations of carbon-fuel trucks in favor of nonpolluting ones. https://nyti.ms/3NK3pBA

ChatGPT Helps, and Worries, Business Consultants, Study Finds

The A.I. tool helped most with creative tasks. With more analytical work, however, the technology led to more mistakes. https://nyti.ms/3RCXsYv

A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations shrink to machine size. https://nyti.ms/3TKoMXp

This N.Y.U. Student Owns a $6 Million Crypto Mine. His Secret Is Out.

A legal dispute in a tiny Texas town unexpectedly reveals how Chinese nationals can move money to the U.S. without drawing the attention of authorities in either country. https://nyti.ms/41G04t2

The 2023 Good Tech Awards

Toasting a year of breakthroughs (and a few breakdowns) in Silicon Valley and beyond. https://nyti.ms/4azQmwA

Suit Against Twitter Over Unpaid Bonuses Gets Go-Ahead From Judge

More than $5 million in bonuses were orally promised but never paid, according to the suit. A judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss the case. https://nyti.ms/3RDDugb

Substack Says It Will Not Ban Nazis or Extremist Speech

Responding to criticism of its hands-off approach to content moderation, the company said it would not ban Nazi symbols or extremist rhetoric so long as newsletter writers do not incite violence. https://nyti.ms/3TFbNq7

Apple Explores A.I. Deals With News Publishers

The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers’ news articles. https://nyti.ms/3NIQss5

Can an A.I. Van Gogh Help Museums Generate New Interest?

Can doppelgängers of the Dutch painter help museums generate new interest and income? A.I. Vincent fields our questions (and makes some mistakes). https://nyti.ms/46P8XBP

Judge Upholds Texas TikTok Ban on Government Devices

The Texas law was challenged by First Amendment lawyers who filed a suit on behalf of college professors who said that their work had been compromised when they lost access to the app. https://nyti.ms/41mD9TM

Google Loses Antitrust Court Battle With Makers of Fortnite Video Game

The ruling could reshape the rules of how other businesses can make money on the Android operating system. https://nyti.ms/46UjVWv

The Nation Magazine to Become Monthly

The progressive publication will move to the new schedule in January, and each issue will be 84 pages instead of 48. https://nyti.ms/3NJWjgP

The Power Vacuum at the Top of the Crypto Industry

A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried and Changpeng Zhao ran two of the largest crypto companies. As they grapple with legal woes, others are jockeying to lead the industry’s next chapter. https://nyti.ms/4ai4ni8

What Ails Offshore Wind: Supply Chains, Ships and Interest Rates

Government officials and energy developers misjudged the difficulty of building huge clean energy projects in the United States, which has built very few of them. https://nyti.ms/3NnA2VB

QR Codes Can Hide Deceptive Links From Identity Thieves, F.T.C. Warns

Scammers have used QR codes to steal personal information by imitating legitimate companies or sending deceptive emails and text messages, the Federal Trade Commission said. https://nyti.ms/4afOWXR

Mistral, French A.I. Start-Up, Is Valued at $2 Billion in Funding Round

The company has publicly released its latest technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like OpenAI and Google argue that approach can be dangerous. https://nyti.ms/46RxeqO

This A.I. Subculture’s Motto: Go, Go, Go

The eccentric pro-tech movement known as “Effective Accelerationism” wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way. https://nyti.ms/3tgMlfy

Key Players in OpenAI’s Boardroom Drama

A mix of prominent tech industry figures and people not well known outside the A.I. community played big roles in the upheaval at the company. https://nyti.ms/3TgqKys

Tiny Electric Vehicles Pack a Bigger Climate Punch Than Cars

Two- and three-wheeled vehicles, used by billions of people, are moving away from fossil fuels to batteries faster than cars in countries that have made the energy transition a priority. https://nyti.ms/3RdNsVj

Key Players in OpenAI’s Boardroom Drama

A mix of prominent tech industry figures and people not well known outside the A.I. community played big roles in the upheaval at the company. https://nyti.ms/3RfRo8f

Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Split over the leadership of Sam Altman, board members and executives turned on one another. Their brawl exposed the cracks at the heart of the A.I. movement. https://nyti.ms/3TigI02

E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules With Landmark New Law

The agreement over the A.I. Act solidifies one of the world’s first comprehensive attempts to limit the use of artificial intelligence. https://nyti.ms/3tcMZuH

Google’s Next Top Model, Will the Cybertruck Crash? and This Week in A.I.

Like the Cybertruck, this podcast is bulletproof. https://nyti.ms/487SREd

Binance Founder Ordered to Remain in U.S. Before Sentencing

Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, faces as much as 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal money-laundering violations. https://nyti.ms/3GvqnIW

Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map For the Next Decade

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. https://nyti.ms/41bHSHC

UK Accuses Russia of Yearslong Cyberattacks

The government said a group “almost certainly” linked to Russia’s intelligence service carried out sustained cyberespionage operations with the goal of undermining trust in the British political system. https://nyti.ms/3RxQ6H1

Russia’s Latest Disinformation Tactic Exploits American Celebrities

Videos from Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson and others have been used — unknowingly to them, it seems — in social media posts and Russian news coverage critical of Ukraine’s leader. https://nyti.ms/41c49oM

Meta Plans to Add Encryption to Messenger, Stoking a Privacy Debate

The move is part of an effort to make the app more like WhatsApp and iMessage. Law enforcement authorities say the privacy makes it harder to track criminals. https://nyti.ms/3GuIvm8

PlayStation Will Remove Discovery Shows Despite User Purchase

Sony said that the Discovery shows would be deleted from the devices on Dec. 31, citing “content licensing arrangements with content providers.” https://nyti.ms/41f9cET

Five Ways A.I. Could Be Regulated

There is little agreement among regulators and lawmakers around the world on how artificial intelligence should — or even could — be controlled. https://nyti.ms/3GyfHcC

Google Updates Bard Chatbot With ‘Gemini’ A.I. as It Chases ChatGPT

After more than eight months of research and development, Google has unveiled its most powerful A.I. so far. But only parts of it are widely available. https://nyti.ms/3tayxDi

How Nations Are Losing a Global Race to Tackle A.I.’s Harms

Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies. https://nyti.ms/4al1JZl

Spotify Cancels Two Acclaimed Podcasts: ‘Heavyweight’ and ‘Stolen’

The shows will finish out their seasons on Spotify and then have the option to shop their shows somewhere else. https://nyti.ms/3NcPIem

Bitcoin Soars on Hopes of Investment Fund Approval

The cryptocurrency has gained roughly 150 percent this year, as investors bet that regulators will soon approve the first spot exchange-traded fund that is designed to track the price of Bitcoin. https://nyti.ms/3uQY0Ca

AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Reads a Bedtime Story for Calm App

The sleep and meditation app Calm released a new story featuring the late actor’s signature drawl — or a computer-generated version of it. https://nyti.ms/3RaDkMX

Bordeaux Wine Snobs Have a Point, According to This Computer Model

With machine learning, scientists are trying to chemically define the murky concept of terroir. The models might be useful for detecting wine fraud. https://nyti.ms/3GvREem

One Year of ChatGPT: How A.I. Changed Silicon Valley Forever

ChatGPT’s release a year ago triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies and alarm from some of the people who helped invent it. https://nyti.ms/47X3VEN

Brain Implants Helped 5 People Recover From Traumatic Injuries

People with chronic problems after falls and car crashes scored better on cognition tests after getting a brain implant, a new study found. https://nyti.ms/3uK0RwQ

The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement

Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I. https://nyti.ms/3Gpnzgv

The Who’s Who Behind the Modern Artificial Intelligence Movement

Before chatbots exploded in popularity, a group of researchers, tech executives and venture capitalists had worked for more than a decade to fuel A.I. https://nyti.ms/3N9G642

How Elon Musk and Larry Page’s AI Debate Led to OpenAI and an Industry Boom

The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition. https://nyti.ms/3Rs3EU8