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