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I challenged ChatGPT to a beach read writing contest. Here are the results.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
I challenged ChatGPT to a beach read writing contest. Here are the results.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
Consumer-facing A.I. has become a nuisance. But the big breakthroughs may be on the horizon.
By David Wallace-Wells
The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.
By Michael E. Murray
Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis.
By Julia Angwin
A fiction writer challenges an A.I. chatbot to a duel.
By Curtis Sittenfeld
The leading companies are co-opting Silicon Valley’s traditional cycle of disruption.
By Mark Lemley and Matt Wansley
The Biden administration seems to be in denial about China’s staggering advantage.
By David Wallace-Wells
The TikTok law undermines America’s moral authority on maintaining open internet platforms.
By Nick Frisch and Dan Wang
The Cybertruck looks edgy, that’s for sure, but it has serious problems.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Sales of electric vehicles are sagging in part because they’re so dull to drive compared with their gas counterparts.
By Ezra Dyer
Cody Fry and Noah Kahan are among the artists who are wondering how the battle between Universal Music Group and the social media platform might affect them.
By Madison Malone Kircher
In our focus on protecting the present and future from A.I., we have forgotten about the urgent need to protect the past.
By Jacob N. Shapiro and Chris Mattmann
Agencies should be required to provide verifiable evidence that the tools they use will not cause harm.
By Joy Buolamwini and Barry Friedman
The jobs require advanced skills but not necessarily advanced degrees, especially in emerging high-tech fields like A.I., electric vehicles and robotics.
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Blaming social media for all kinds of social ills is more convenient for politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation.
By Zeynep Tufekci
For me, the journey began when I asked ChatGPT who I was.
By Vauhini Vara
Now that Sam Altman’s back, will he be able to maintain a balance between safety and the profit motive?
By David Brooks
Default settings on devices allow the tech industry to keep collecting and using data as it wants.
By Zeynep Tufekci
Vast swaths of the cryptocurrency industry, including FTX, are propped up by pumping up the price of a token with no real value behind it.
By Molly White
The justices should remember that the First Amendment’s highest purpose is to protect the speech that’s necessary to democracy.
By Jameel Jaffer
Why the development of artificial intelligence might result in greater pollution of our digital public spaces.
By Julia Angwin
The entrepreneur seems to see himself as a mythical hero.
By David Brooks
We need a nimble, adaptable new agency with the expertise, resources and authority to rein in the tech giants that control our digital lives.
By Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren
The Biden administration, in its zeal to keep advanced chips away from China, is failing to miss the risks in many other sectors.
By Dan Wang
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Douglas Hofstadter is re-examining his stance on artificial intelligence.
By David Brooks
Government is not an obstacle to new ideas.
By Naomi Oreskes
Don’t bother learning to code.
By Farhad Manjoo
The investment wave has the potential to drive a more rapid and efficient decarbonization of the economy while increasing the supply of clean energy.
By Brian Deese
History suggests that technological payoffs take time.
By Paul Krugman
How artificial intelligence can reimagine art from our past and influence our future.
By Frank Pavich
In a live conversation, we offered tips for readers looking to optimize their digital lives this year.
By Camille Baker
My drawings are a reflection of my soul. What happens when artificial intelligence — and anyone with access to it — can replicate them?
By Sarah Andersen
The recent meltdown was avoidable, but it would have cost the company.
By Zeynep Tufekci
A.I. can be a learning tool for schools with enough teachers and resources to use it well.
By Zeynep Tufekci
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Facebook has become my modern-day version of a bazaar, with its rows of tiny stalls offering untold treasures.
By Isabel Slone
Even the collapse of FTX probably won’t kill the archetype.
By Margaret O’Mara
The garish celebrity playboy, the obsessive engineer and the young artist, as different from one another as they could be, have all veered not in the direction of becoming bratty little boys on a schoolyard.
By Jaron Lanier
Elon Musk is not the worst thing about Twitter.
By Zeynep Tufekci
Meta is spending billions on virtual reality, and it has very little to show for it.
By Farhad Manjoo
Mr. Musk’s plan to buy Twitter underscores the need for federal regulation of social media sites.
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Social media didn’t cause my mental illness, but it exacerbated it. Now I have found a way to quiet the noise.
By Stephanie Eisler Vance
The public must make the transition from green consumers to green citizens.
By Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is damaging international scientific cooperation.
By Michael Riordan
A deal of this magnitude can generate value for Twitter and create stability for future mergers.
By Yair Listokin and Jonathon Zytnick
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Silicon Valley breeds narcissists who run their companies as ideological vanity projects.
By Elizabeth Spiers
Don’t be distracted by the shenanigans going on in the casino.
By Maria Bustillos
His long list of unfulfilled commitments wildly exceeds his achievements.
By Edward Niedermeyer
The online system is broken. How do we fix it?
By Ben Tarnoff
In a post-Roe America, women will bear the costs of letting data collection undermine our liberty.
By Zeynep Tufekci
The geopolitical consequences may be radical.
By Zoe Weinberg
Will we end up as the family pet?
By Maureen Dowd
All public policy is about tradeoffs. Tech regulation is no exception.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
A damning expose depicts a company with all the information it needs to fix the egregious oversights and mistakes of the past.
By Kate Klonick
Facebook may have crossed the line.
By Kara Swisher
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Even for new technologies, accessibility matters.
By Char Adams
There’s something funny about a digital amphibian who might one day pay for my retirement. But it’s more than that.
By Jay Caspian Kang
'When she recognizes you’re frustrated with her, Alexa can now try to adjust, just like you or I would do.'
By Joseph Turow
A new portfolio from Opinion and the newsroom will expand our ambitions in an age-old medium.
By Adam Pasick
Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch inconvenient research about the political ads it delivers.
By Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy
Loneliness among students has soared worldwide. It doesn't have to be like that.
By Jonathan Haidt and Jean M. Twenge
The AT&T news underscored how the newer Big Tech firms play by their own rules.
By Kara Swisher
A Facebook-appointed panel avoided a clear decision about Trump’s heinous online behavior. It’s kind of perfect, actually.
By Kara Swisher
A movement is underway to slow the obsolescence of our electronic gear.
By Damon Beres
Assessing its future, both the bad and the good.
By Kara Swisher
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A labor battle in Alabama is a referendum on Amazon’s strategy.
By Kara Swisher
As the prices of blockchain-secured works skyrocket and speculators swoop, experts are warning of an unsustainable bubble.
By Scott Reyburn
Broadcast television and talk radio are just as problematic as social media.
By Nicholas A. Ashford
Recast your past failures as successes, engage in meaningless optics, and other tips from the Silicon Valley playbook.
By Kara Swisher
On Beeple, Nyan Cat and the latest tech phenom: the non-fungible token, or NFT.
By Kara Swisher
Antitrust bills would dismantle Apple and Google’s monopoly over the distribution of smartphone apps and entice companies to relocate to those states.
By Matt Stoller and Pat Garofalo
Too many local governments are still struggling with the technology that people use to get appointments.
By Kara Swisher
We the people need to take more control of how we move into the brave new worlds beyond our planet.
By Kara Swisher
What to make of a proposed law that would require tech companies to pay for news that appears on their platforms.
By Kara Swisher
The questions are bigger than whether Trump should have been suspended.
By Jameel Jaffer and Katy Glenn Bass
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Recent attacks on government and infrastructure networks reveal the inadequacy of America’s digital defenses.
By Kara Swisher
His loyal lieutenant will take Amazon’s helm as the company faces ever-growing scrutiny.
By Kara Swisher
A one-time tax on those who have made lots of money during the pandemic may be an answer.
By Kara Swisher
They also discuss “flouncing” and whether a Substack newsletter would be too much work for Donald Trump.
By ‘Sway’
Substack is the breakout newsletter platform media insiders are watching. Its chief executive says he has big plans — and an open door.
By ‘Sway’
The chaos of the last two weeks offers an opportunity to rethink the role of technology in our lives.
By Kara Swisher
Uber built a business on the backs of drivers and, now, restaurants. But the company’s chief Dara Khosrowshahi says it’s not part of the ‘menace economy.’
By ‘Sway’
The coronavirus has forced the kind of work experimentation that would have taken a decade otherwise.
By Kara Swisher
The company declared in newspaper ads that it was “standing up to Apple.” It’s a desperate ploy that’s unlikely to work.
By Kara Swisher
The Amazon-owned Zoox is unveiling an electric self-driving vehicle. But are we ready for driverless cars?
By Kara Swisher
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It’s not too late for the government to take back power from Big Tech.
By Kara Swisher
Warner Bros. has embraced a digital future. The rest of the industry would do well to pay mind.
By Kara Swisher
In the pursuit of surveillance as a service, Jeff Bezos is intent on recording even our moods. How much personal data is too much to give to Amazon?
By Kara Swisher
The president’s magic social media wand will soon be powerless.
By Kara Swisher
Chamath Palihapitiya made his fortune with bold predictions and bets on the future. That wealth gives him influence well beyond Silicon Valley — but should it?
By ‘Sway’
How antitrust lawyer Lina Khan is taking on the most powerful men in Silicon Valley.
By ‘Sway’
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