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Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology,...
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Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even...
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House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or...
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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...
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Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking...
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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...
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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...
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Riding Rage Over Israel to Online Prominence
Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October —...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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Sticks. And the People Who Love Them.
Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly...
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China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016...
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and...
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TikTok Bill Would Complicate ByteDance Investments if Passed
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance,...
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X’s Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Research Group Is Dismissed
Elon Musk’s social media company sued a group that exposed hate speech on the site, but...
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The Trustbuster Who Has Apple and Google in His Sights
Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday...
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With TikTok Under Fire, Brands That Rely on It Worry
Many companies, particularly in the beauty and fashion industries, have boosted sales through the platform. They...
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Reddit Rises 48% in First Day of Trading
The social media company’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange was one of the first...
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Reddit’s IPO Is a Content Moderation Success Story
The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping...
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Kate Middleton, Britney Spears and the Online Trolls Doubting Their Existence
Whether it is just for kicks or propelled by genuine doubt, the unsupported claims about celebrities...
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From Russia, Elaborate Tales of Fake Journalists
As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications online to discredit...