A public battle has broken out among the titans of Silicon Valley. One side, led by Elon Musk, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, is backing Donald Trump for president. The other, led by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, is behind Kamala Harris. We should not make the mistake of…
San Francisco — For years, Yelp has complained about Google’s practices, alleging that the tech giant placed its own products above competitors in Google search results. Yelp says when a customer searches, say, for “restaurants in Brooklyn,” Google prioritizes putting its own summary and ratings above non-sponsored results from rivals including Yelp, resulting in fewer customer…
Days after Vice President Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid, a video — created with the help of artificial intelligence — went viral. “I … am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate,” a voice that sounded like Harris’ said in the fake audio track used to…
Esther Perel’s trajectory from private-practice psychotherapist to internationally renowned relationship expert is deeply entwined with technology. It was her publisher’s printing presses that distributed her 2006 breakout bestselling book, “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence” (HarperCollins), in more than 30 languages. The videos of her subsequent hit TED Talks brought her theories on desire and…
Online, the deeds and ingenuity of Dennis Fountaine had no bounds. One website listed the 67-year-old as a “technologist and entrepreneurial inventor” who has been “conceptualizing, researching, developing and licensing new products and technologies for 20+ years.” Another webpage described the Los Gatos-based Fountaine as an innovation prodigy, having created a hot dog cooker made…
Book Reviews Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World By Parmy OlsonSt. Martin’s Press” 336 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Of all the technologies that have created buzz over the last few years, by…
The headlines this election cycle have been dominated by unprecedented events, among them Donald Trump’s criminal conviction, the attempt on his life, Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance and his replacement on the Democratic ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s no wonder other important political developments have been drowned out, including the steady drip of…
No one knows just many green jobs will be created in the United States over the next decade, but there’s little disagreement that the demand will create a huge opportunity for the next generation of workers. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, an estimated $800 billion will flow from the federal government over…
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Monday unveiled its newest generation of iPhones, with the usual improvements to their cameras and computing power. But this time, the company touted an additional selling point: artificial intelligence tools. The new iPhone 16 and 16 Pro will be the first smartphones built from the ground up with Apple Intelligence, the…
AI, yi, yi. A Google-made artificial intelligence program verbally abused a student seeking help with their homework, ultimately telling her to “Please die.” The shocking response from Google’s Gemini chatbot large language model (LLM) terrified 29-year-old Sumedha Reddy of Michigan — as it called her a “stain on the universe.” A woman is terrified after…
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