Technology
Top tickets for first Biden Hollywood fundraiser since end of strikes approach $1 million
Next week’s Hollywood fundraiser for President Biden, his first in-person soiree here since the end of the entertainment-industry strikes dried up the traditional wellspring of campaign money, is expected...
Opinion: Can Hollywood’s new SAG-AFTRA contract hold AI at bay?
After months of strikes by the writers’ and screen actors’ unions — and billions of dollars in losses to California’s economy — Hollywood is back to work. Sort of....
Elon Musk tells off Disney’s Iger and other fleeing advertisers in DealBook interview
Stung by an advertiser boycott and accusations of antisemitism, Elon Musk didn’t hide his hurt feelings in an onstage interview at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit conference. “Go...
Opinion: OpenAI’s drama marks a new and scary era in artificial intelligence
Sam Altman’s dismissal and rapid reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, confirms that the future of AI is firmly in the hands of people focused on...
Column: The crypto scam is on life support. Why are some lawmakers trying to give it CPR?
The criminal convictions of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Binance gang just mark the beginning of the U.S. government's drive to expose crypto as a tool for fraud and money-laundering....
California examines benefits, risks of using artificial intelligence in state government
Artificial intelligence that can generate text, images and other content could help improve state programs but also poses risks, according to a report released by the governor’s office on...
Five days of chaos: What just happened at OpenAI?
Nearly as quickly as he left, Sam Altman is back.Following his abrupt and still largely unexplained firing from the influential artificial intelligence developer OpenAI on Friday, the 38-year-old technology...
With OpenAI in chaos, the tech recruiting feeding frenzy is on
For OpenAI, which has become the face of the booming AI industry thanks to popular consumer products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, the last few days have been a...