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Meet the Men Who Eat Meat

With the help of Joe Rogan, a social media trend with staying power emerged from a 2018 book, “The Carnivore Diet.” https://nyti.ms/4a30uMR

Getir, a Rapid Grocery-Delivery Service, Exits the U.S. and Europe

The company had expanded quickly to keep ahead of rivals, but like other pandemic darlings, its business lost steam after lockdowns were eased. https://nyti.ms/3xVew5H

Bumble Tells Women They No Longer Have to Make the First Move

As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course. https://nyti.ms/3QraJDM

Meta Faces EU Investigation Over Election Disinformation

The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June. https://nyti.ms/4aXpdTV

From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models? https://nyti.ms/44oy5Qk

Binance’s Founder Plans a Comeback Even as He Faces Prison Time

Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act. https://nyti.ms/3Ut3894

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft. https://nyti.ms/3y7geRu

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft. https://nyti.ms/3WkmaRf

TikTok on the Clock, Tesla’s Flop Era and How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer

“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.” https://nyti.ms/3UhaDzI

How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork

A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems. https://nyti.ms/4b9oEGm

How to Claim Your Part of a $5.6 Million Ring Settlement

The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said. https://nyti.ms/44lnYve

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk’s $47 Billion Pay Deal With New Shareholder Vote

The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware. https://nyti.ms/3JpgFcE

What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own. https://nyti.ms/4d4L919

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine

Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class. https://nyti.ms/4deEth5

Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers. https://nyti.ms/3JofY30

Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Backups

It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency. https://nyti.ms/3xCCmDp

The Paris Olympics’ One Sure Thing: Cyberattacks

“We will be attacked,” the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying “bug bounties” to hackers. https://nyti.ms/3vXzgJB

Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal

Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Gulf. https://nyti.ms/3UlvXFz

Should You Use an Anti-Wrinkle Straw?

Another solution to a problem we didn’t know we had. https://nyti.ms/3Uhxe02

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?

Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot. https://nyti.ms/4aBvDbf

Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Workers

Along with the departure of a senior executive, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company. https://nyti.ms/43ZBcxE

Tell Us: Has Elon Musk’s Behavior Affected How You View Tesla?

Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker’s sales. https://nyti.ms/49uaT3W

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics. https://nyti.ms/3PX3dA4

Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs

This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits. https://nyti.ms/3Jh9Hq4

Jackson Hinkle Rides Rage Over Israel to Prominence

Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts. https://nyti.ms/4cRcGmy

Humane’s AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone

The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes. https://nyti.ms/3Ud0pBq

Computer Theorist Wins $1 Million Turing Award

This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness. https://nyti.ms/3PVEnk4

Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors

The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves. https://nyti.ms/43Twr8O

TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants. https://nyti.ms/3UdtgWx

Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices. https://nyti.ms/4cSlzMO

Tesla Settles Lawsuit Over a Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot

A Tesla driver’s family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker’s driver-assistance software was in use. https://nyti.ms/43QBc2V

Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza

The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship. https://nyti.ms/4cGO6Vg

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools

Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures. https://nyti.ms/4aMtidf

Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback

One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data. https://nyti.ms/3TRwYDT

In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides

As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits. https://nyti.ms/3xyGkwu

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know. https://nyti.ms/49udafg

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.

As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself. https://nyti.ms/4b1Jqb9

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know. https://nyti.ms/4aJyeQ5

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems. https://nyti.ms/3xoixzB

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.

A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord. https://nyti.ms/3TMpxOf

Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand

A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy. https://nyti.ms/49oV1PZ

Andres Freund, el ingeniero que previno un posible ciberataque global

Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo. https://nyti.ms/4b0fOuL

Ford Slows Its Push Into Electric Vehicles

The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast. https://nyti.ms/3J6C1LB

TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App

The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban. https://nyti.ms/3J3FNFF

NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon

The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving. https://nyti.ms/3xwodav

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world. https://nyti.ms/4aFxlbj

‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It

On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it’s like to take care of relatives who have reached their final years. https://nyti.ms/43GHouv

George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast

The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin’s work. https://nyti.ms/3TKVLsY

Love Sticks? There’s an Instagram for That.

Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account. https://nyti.ms/3vtzUhQ

An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes

Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content. https://nyti.ms/3U1NTVy