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Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Families at Senate Child Safety Hearing

The Meta chief executive addressed families during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child online safety. https://nyti.ms/42oMCKs

The Apple Vision Pro Is a Marvel. But Who Will Buy It?

Parents, movie buffs and office workers might all succumb to the novelty of Apple’s new ‘spatial computing’ device. https://nyti.ms/49gCuFX

Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Costs Closer to $4,600 With Necessary Add-Ons

The new headset teaches a valuable lesson about the cost of tech products: The upsells and add-ons will get you. https://nyti.ms/3UlevRK

News Outlet Blames Photoshop for Making Australian Lawmaker’s Photo More Revealing

9News apologized for the edited photo of the member of state Parliament, Georgie Purcell, which it said was a result of “automation by Photoshop.” https://nyti.ms/3w4ipUW

Google’s Parent Company, Alphabet, Reports Earnings Below Estimates

Google’s parent company reported that sales climbed 13 percent to $86.3 billion while profit jumped 52 percent. https://nyti.ms/47Uc9wl

Neuralink Implanted a Device in a Patient’s Brain, Elon Musk Says

The billionaire said his company’s first product, called Telepathy, would let a person control a phone or computer “just by thinking.” https://nyti.ms/49gMJdE

Minute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?

Popularized in China during the pandemic, ReelShort and other apps are hoping to bring minute-by-minute melodramas to the United States. https://nyti.ms/3OmBs3c

Focused Cuts and Fewer Layers: Tech Layoffs Enter a New Phase

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies have been on a layoff spree this month, with the latest cuts differing from last year’s mass reductions. https://nyti.ms/48TJ19Z

Truck Makers Team Up to Push for Electric Vehicle Chargers

Daimler, Navistar and Volvo have been criticized for not selling many electric heavy trucks, but the companies say the country first needs many more chargers. https://nyti.ms/48U3Kdy

Watch Me Lose My Job on TikTok

Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency. https://nyti.ms/3uctx1x

Amazon Scraps Deal to Buy Roomba Maker iRobot Amid Scrutiny

Amazon walked away from the $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot as it faces questions from regulators in the European Union and United States. https://nyti.ms/482ek1a

Hottest Job in Corporate America? The Executive in Charge of A.I.

Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology. https://nyti.ms/4biBsLp

Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Ring, a maker of internet-connected cameras that is owned by Amazon, said the police could no longer ask people to share video recordings using the company’s app, Neighbors. https://nyti.ms/3SA5piP

Is Cryptocurrency Like Stocks and Bonds? Courts Move Closer to an Answer.

Federal judges are weighing whether digital currencies should be subject to the same rules as stocks and bonds. The outcome could shape crypto’s future in the U.S. https://nyti.ms/3u9E25P

L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach

Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of breaching election data. Those charges were dropped weeks later. https://nyti.ms/48OqxHD

Elon Musk Spreads Election Misinformation on X Without Fact Checkers

Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.” https://nyti.ms/3vWaadS

Cruise Says Hostility to Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars

A law firm’s review found that executives had failed to fully explain an October crash, which the Justice Department is also investigating. https://nyti.ms/3vStbxB

Synopsys Strikes $35 Billion Deal to Buy Ansys

The deal was the latest sign of changes in the tech sector, as artificial intelligence booms and sales of some hardware slows. https://nyti.ms/47xBhJj

Musk Demands Bigger Stake in Tesla as Price for A.I. Work

Elon Musk, the electric car company’s chief executive, said he would “build products outside of Tesla” unless the board raises his stake to 25 percent. https://nyti.ms/48MJGtu

How Group Chats Rule the World

They quietly became the de facto spaces to share dumb jokes, grief or even plans for an insurrection. https://nyti.ms/41WrfQN

Do You Have ‘Bookshelf Wealth’?

A TikTok home-décor trend has irked some bibliophiles. https://nyti.ms/3ShY2MH

California Has Dealt a Blow to Renewable Energy, Some Businesses Say

Some companies are leaving the state or reducing their presence there after California greatly reduced incentives for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels. https://nyti.ms/4aSdE0J

Microsoft Tops Apple to Become Most Valuable Public Company

The shift is indicative of the importance of new artificial intelligence technology to Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors. https://nyti.ms/3vzqykl

Why Casey Left Substack, Elon Musk and Drugs, and an A.I. Antibiotic Discovery

It’s a drug episode. https://nyti.ms/41TRZBm

Hertz Sells 20,000 Electric Cars After Being Burned by Tesla’s Price Cuts

The rental car company blamed the sharp drop in the value of electric vehicles and higher repair costs for its decision to sell 20,000 cars. https://nyti.ms/4aWMfuz

Discord Cuts 17% of Workers in Latest Tech Layoffs

In an internal memo, Discord said it had grown five times its size since 2020. https://nyti.ms/48KzqBI

Federal Regulator Questions Carmakers About Unwanted Tracking via Their Apps

The Federal Communications Commission is concerned about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their victims. https://nyti.ms/3Hiy6uh

State Legislators Tighten A.I. Rules to Combat Deceptive Election Ads

Sophisticated political deepfakes have warped elections overseas. Can U.S. legislators act fast enough to make A.I. campaign ads more transparent? https://nyti.ms/3SfnWAX

AI and Education: Will Chatbots Soon Tutor Your Children?

New A.I. tools could enable a Silicon Valley dream: bots that customize learning for pupils. Prior attempts have not lived up to the hype. https://nyti.ms/3RSmgfd

Google Cuts Hundreds of Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions

The company, which has been working to trim expenses, laid off employees who worked on core engineering, the Google Assistant product and hardware such as the Pixel phone. https://nyti.ms/48IOxw9

Amazon Cuts Hundreds of Jobs at Studios and Twitch

The layoffs add to a growing number of cuts in the tech industry this past year. https://nyti.ms/3vvSO7d

The Best and Worst of Tech: Smartphones, Self-Driving Cars, More

The best tech, from universal power charging to foldable phones, solved practical problems. But the worst tech, including self-driving cars and cryptocurrency, put us in harm’s way. https://nyti.ms/3NZ1Vnr

Microsoft Debates What to Do With A.I. Lab in China

Amid U.S.-China tensions, the company has faced questions over whether operating an advanced research lab in Beijing is politically tenable. https://nyti.ms/41Up93M

The Next Front in the U.S.-China Battle Over Chips

A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China’s ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology. https://nyti.ms/3Hb63wG

SEC’s X Account Hacked, Causing Frenzy Over Bitcoin ETF

The X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the approval of an investment product linked to Bitcoin. It wasn’t true. https://nyti.ms/3SbWRyx

Editor of Los Angeles Times Steps Down

Kevin Merida, who took over the job in 2021, said in an internal note that his last day would be on Friday. https://nyti.ms/3RUN6U9

A.I. Giant Tied to China Under Scrutiny

A congressional committee made the demand of the Commerce Department after The Times reported on concerns among U.S. intelligence officials over the Emirati company, G42. https://nyti.ms/3tR9Ax2

OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit’

The artificial intelligence start-up said that it collaborated with news organizations and that The Times, which accused it of copyright infringement, was not telling the full story. https://nyti.ms/3TSo7TK

Unity Software to Cut 25% of Its Work Force

The cuts follow a tough year in which the tech industry laid off tens of thousands of workers. https://nyti.ms/3SciRJJ

TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics

People and groups had harnessed the tool to scrutinize content on the site related to the Israel-Hamas war and other topics. https://nyti.ms/3TXLqff

How 2024 Will Be A.I.’s ‘Leap Forward’

A.I. is set to advance at a rapid rate, becoming more powerful and spreading into the physical world. https://nyti.ms/48HUIQl

Help! An Employee of Budget Kept My Phone and I Can Prove It.

After misplacing his iPhone while returning a rental car, a traveler tracked down the device and presented strong evidence to the agency that a worker took it — to no avail. https://nyti.ms/3NTAxa9

Vulcan Rocket Lifts Off, First U.S. Moon Launch in Decades

The United Launch Alliance rocket will be the first in a series of new launchers that could chip away at SpaceX’s hold over the space business. https://nyti.ms/3tJwer8

Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.’s Nefarious Future

In the hands of anonymous internet users, A.I. tools can create waves of harassing and racist material. It’s already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan. https://nyti.ms/3NTXmuo

Switching to a Flip Phone Helped Me Cut Down on My Smartphone Addiction

Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did T9 texting drive me crazy? Definitely. Was it worth doing? Absolutely. https://nyti.ms/3TQnLgK

U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple

Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business. https://nyti.ms/3S89LMT

The Times Sues OpenAI, a Debate Over iMessage and Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

“This is sort of the big kahuna.” https://nyti.ms/4aIsl6x

The Times Sues OpenAI, a Debate Over iMessage and Our New Year’s Tech Resolutions

“This is sort of the big kahuna.” https://nyti.ms/3RUR5A6

Happy Puppies and Silly Geese: Pushing the Limits of A.I. Absurdity

A recent update to ChatGPT made it easier to create images. It wasn’t long before some began pushing the chatbot to its limits. https://nyti.ms/3S3Cdk2

Museum World Hit by Cyberattack on Widely Used Software

Hackers targeted software that many museums use to show their collections online and to manage sensitive information. https://nyti.ms/3vuoyJL