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Many sites get at least half their traffic from search engines. Fuller results generated by new chatbots could mean far fewer visitors. https://nyti.ms/3zjW7wP

Google’s Bard chatbot fared far worse than OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but human assistants might soon be out of their jobs. https://nyti.ms/3G2CLA5

Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games in January. https://nyti.ms/40nP0iW

The swift advance of artificial intelligence in politics is already blurring the boundaries between fact and fake. https://nyti.ms/3nsxNGH

Learning how a “large language model” operates. https://nyti.ms/3lRgazS

Artificial intelligence is confronting white-collar professionals more directly than ever. It could make them more productive — or obsolete. https://nyti.ms/3lQ9fXB

Lyft has been slow to bounce back from early pandemic problems even as the business of its much bigger rival, Uber, has improved. https://nyti.ms/3JOOSBV

The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple. https://nyti.ms/3FV6J97

Faced with challenging situations in parenting, romance or work, some are getting by with a little help from their A.I. friends. https://nyti.ms/3z4yvw7

If the White House can’t force a sale, that would effectively leave it with two options to resolve concerns about the company. https://nyti.ms/40slCs5

In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network. https://nyti.ms/3z08IVZ

Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict. https://nyti.ms/40sVuwr

Live from the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a conversation with the assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter. https://nyti.ms/3JR97Ad

After a miserable year, cryptocurrency companies are looking for ways to rebrand products that many consumers no longer trust. https://nyti.ms/3loMlGD

The inquiry appears to be tied to an admission by the app’s owner, ByteDance, that employees had inappropriately obtained Americans’ data. The company said it had fired the workers involved. https://nyti.ms/3LPFMI3

Twitter didn’t move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said. https://nyti.ms/3lqd9WT

Then, Mark Zuckerberg rethinks Meta’s strategy. https://nyti.ms/3LsdliT

New artificial intelligence technology is roiling Silicon Valley. For now, the most obvious ways to use it are in software like Microsoft’s suite of products. https://nyti.ms/3LvWcF3

The promised “live” demonstration of the bot had, in fact, been recorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, tumbled in Hong Kong. https://nyti.ms/42gNhgJ

The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app’s Chinese ownership could share user information with Beijing. https://nyti.ms/3JLEQCS

Powerful new artificial-intelligence software is already shaking up the travel industry, but it has a long way to go until it can plan a seamless trip. For now. https://nyti.ms/3ZR3Mi5

Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate. https://nyti.ms/3ThY85S

Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian government. https://nyti.ms/3YY3Xa8

The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise. https://nyti.ms/3yFNk8h

The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving room for chatbots to rise. https://nyti.ms/3yC6P1B

The German automaker announced a plan to accelerate its transition to battery-powered vehicles and bolster operations in China and North America. https://nyti.ms/428qIeh

Sabrina Brier is finding success online in the role of a 20-something in New York who’s trying to shed her basic suburban past. https://nyti.ms/3Fn628m

It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November. Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has declared 2023 the “year of efficiency.” https://nyti.ms/3lbjrcL

Sabrina Brier is finding success online in the role of a 20-something in New York who’s trying to shed her basic suburban past. https://nyti.ms/3JgX5yB

The decision lessens the chances that gig drivers will be considered employees in the state, but it is expected to be appealed to the state Supreme Court. https://nyti.ms/3JEdFK0

Using A.I. tools in hiring is one of the most promising and contentious uses of the technology. The experience of a company called Eightfold AI shows the challenges. https://nyti.ms/3JBn0Cr

Nazara Technologies, a mobile gaming company, said two of its subsidiaries had together more than $7.7 million in balances at the failed bank. https://nyti.ms/3JfmybO

Meme-makers and misinformation peddlers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to create convincing fake videos on the cheap. https://nyti.ms/3yvdkmD

Some of the unflattering private messages among the network’s hosts and executives may never become evidence when Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox News goes to trial. https://nyti.ms/3ZEwD8Z

Here’s one takeaway: The bank’s extremely online clientele may have contributed to its downfall. https://nyti.ms/3FcbB9J

The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped on the crisis for their own messaging. https://nyti.ms/3mMIwLr

Moha Alshawamreh is among the few Palestinians who work in Israel’s tech industry. His commute shows both the inequities of life in the West Bank and an exception to them. https://nyti.ms/426pxf2

Young companies raced to get their money out of the bank, which was central to the start-up industry. Some said they could not make payroll. https://nyti.ms/3TeJwo4

Our reporter took a five-mile walk around Manhattan to find businesses that are using facial recognition technology. https://nyti.ms/3LdlnvR

Also, how Waluigi may explain why A.I. chatbots are misbehaving. https://nyti.ms/3FcPwrF

Many college students seem to love this alcohol-heavy concoction. College officials, not so much. https://nyti.ms/3ysJmzM

On TikTok and YouTube, workers are sharing their stories of leaving their jobs, giving them a sense of power over often untenable situations. https://nyti.ms/41Xh9P7

On a day Mr. Musk said the company was recovering from a sharp drop in ad sales, he found himself apologizing to a former employee with a disability he had disparaged. https://nyti.ms/3Zy9NQn

If you haven’t used some of your phone’s preloaded programs in years, the software may surprise you with updated or hidden features. https://nyti.ms/3Tejgu5

Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs. https://nyti.ms/3Jm4nCl

The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, the A.I. could be a boon. https://nyti.ms/3ylI2yE

Gigi Sohn, who was first nominated by President Biden in October 2021, said she had faced “unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks” on her character and career. https://nyti.ms/3ZIMOBK

How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage. https://nyti.ms/3JkV8CH

In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other technology that could expose Americans’ sensitive data to China. https://nyti.ms/3ZGW6OO

Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design. https://nyti.ms/3kTOXMs