Technology
Column: The depressing fall of Sports Illustrated reveals the real tragedy of AI
Quick, name five classic American magazines.Did you say Sports Illustrated? I did. And I’m not even a sports guy. But if you’re of a certain age, you know Sports...
This new AI-powered drone is both a bomb and a boomerang
What if a missile could jet toward a moving target — and then fly back home to try again if it missed?That’s the idea behind the Roadrunner, a novel...
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...
