By Cade Metz

Suchir Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot.

Published: October 23, 2024 at 09:35AM

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By Kevin Roose

The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death.

Published: October 23, 2024 at 03:07AM

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By J. D. Biersdorfer

If you’re not sure how to describe what you want with keywords, use your camera or photo library to get those search results.

Published: October 23, 2024 at 03:06AM

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By Cade Metz

Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Published: October 22, 2024 at 11:00AM

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By Cade Metz

Housebound during a 1978 blizzard, he and a friend began devising the first computer bulletin board, a forerunner of online services like Reddit, TikTok and Facebook.

Published: October 21, 2024 at 03:31PM

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By Richard Sandomir

An engineer who loved to drive fast, he helped build an industry-altering device that made its debut after the national speed limit of 55 m.p.h. became law.

Published: October 19, 2024 at 02:53PM

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By Cade Metz, Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith

The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.

Published: October 17, 2024 at 06:56PM

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By Brian X. Chen

The $350 Oura Ring 4 looks sleek and cool, and it may be useful for data-hungry health enthusiasts. But it failed this sleep-deprived parent.

Published: October 17, 2024 at 03:06AM

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By Stuart A. Thompson

Seth Keshel has become a darling among election deniers by factoring widespread voter fraud — the existence of which has been widely debunked — into his election predictions.

Published: October 15, 2024 at 03:04PM

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By Chris Kornelis

Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”

Published: October 14, 2024 at 02:02PM

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