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5 Notes from the Big Paris A.I. Summit

Reporter USFebruary 12, 2025

World leaders, tech moguls and assorted hangers-on (including yours truly) are gathered in Paris this week for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, a conference co-hosted by Emmanuel Macron, the French president, and Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to discuss a host of A.I.-related issues. The leaders of three American A.I. companies — Sam Altman of […]

Documentarian Alex Gibney Teams Up With a Google Billionaire

Reporter USFebruary 7, 2025

At a time when the documentary film business is atrophying, one of the world’s leading documentarians, Alex Gibney, has taken on a powerful partner: Wendy Schmidt, a billionaire philanthropist by way of Google. “We’ve been managing to make films on important social issues for a long time, but finding and getting those stories to audiences […]

Is Waymo Friend or Foe to Uber?

Reporter USFebruary 6, 2025

In 2020, Uber was at a crossroads: The company had made an expensive bet on robot taxis, but the project was laden with legal problems and burning through cash. So Uber gave it away to another start-up. But five years later, Uber’s future seems as tied to autonomous vehicles as ever. The company is now […]

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

Reporter USJanuary 30, 2025

Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, had made a series of changes at his company, aligning with President Trump’s new administration. As part of the moves, Mr. Zuckerberg eliminated diversity initiatives in the workplace — something […]

Apple, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI: Who Wins and Loses the DeepSeek Scramble?

Reporter USJanuary 28, 2025

Lots of questions are still swirling this morning about the implications of DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up whose A.I. tools drove yesterday’s stock market plunge. Is it really as good as the closed-source frontier models made by OpenAI and Google? Did DeepSeek really use fewer chips? Did it piggyback off the work of U.S. players? And […]

How Google Maps Plans to Handle the ‘Gulf of America’

Reporter USJanuary 28, 2025

The Trump administration declared on Friday that the Gulf of Mexico had been renamed the Gulf of America, but popular mapping services from Google and Apple have continued showing the old name. On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as soon as the U.S. government updated its official […]

What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?

Reporter USJanuary 27, 2025

Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. And tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its […]

DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley

Reporter USJanuary 27, 2025

Good morning on this action-packed Monday. Mark this week on your “History of Artificial Intelligence Timeline”: The creation of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. sensation that we told you about last week, is shaking the technology industry to its core. The super-efficient, open-source software is raising questions about the valuations of tech giants, including the chip […]

Fitbit Agrees to Pay Million for Not Quickly Reporting Burn Risk With Watches

Fitbit Agrees to Pay $12 Million for Not Quickly Reporting Burn Risk With Watches

Reporter USJanuary 25, 2025

Reports that Fitbit’s Ionic smartwatch was overheating began in 2018 and continued into 2020. But according to U.S. officials, the company did not quickly report, as the law requires, that the battery inside the watch was creating an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death to consumers. On Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission […]

TikTok Ban and Trump Executive Order Lead to Tech Company Dilemma

Reporter USJanuary 24, 2025

For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans. But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies […]