Cormac McCarthy

A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It — Yet

If you’re looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans in the world...

Amazon Closes Operations in Quebec, Laying off 1,700 Workers

Amazon on Wednesday said it was closing all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions gained a...

How Trump Decided to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht

In December 2023, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Donald J. Trump.Mr. Trump wanted to...

Elon Musk Casts Doubt on Trump’s $100 Billion Stargate A.I. Announcement

Elon Musk is casting doubt on the first major tech investment announcement made by President Trump, openly questioning the administration he now serves.On...

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

President Trump on Tuesday granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road drug marketplace and a cult hero in...

What Trump’s Pledge to Plant the U.S. Flag on Mars Really Means

During his Inaugural Address on Monday, President Donald J. Trump again promised to launch American astronauts to Mars.Seated nearby, Elon Musk, a political...

CapCut, a Video-Editing App From ByteDance, Returns for U.S. Users

TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life.CapCut, a popular video-editing app,...

Trump Plans to Announce $100 Billion A.I. Initiative

President Trump on Tuesday is expected to announce a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in...

Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.

“For years, Curtis Yarvin had been writing online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme, that institutions at the...

When Google Altered Its Ad Rules, Charities Paid the Price

In July 2023, Google said it would no longer restrict advertisers from using trademarks that belong to other organizations.That change quickly became a...

Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for at least 75 days, even though...

TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S.

Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos,...

TikTok Got a Reprieve, but Americans and Chinese Are Still on RedNote

TikTok got an apparent reprieve from being forced to shut down, but Americans on Monday were still using and downloading Xiaohongshu, the Chinese...

TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet

The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to...

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