Cormac McCarthy

Ex-School Athletic Director Gets 4 Months in Jail for Racist Deepfake Recording

A former athletic director at a Baltimore area high school who was accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic...

White House-Amazon Spat Culminates in Trump Calling Bezos ‘Very Nice’

President Trump’s 100th day in office started with what seemed to be a fresh and fast-escalating spat between the White House and Amazon.Karoline...

With Trump In Power, Foreign Crypto Companies Make Inroads in US

Last month, Paolo Ardoino, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Tether, joined business executives and U.S. lawmakers for a private lunch at...

G.M. Withdraws Profit Forecast as Trump Tariffs Take a Toll

General Motors is abandoning a previous forecast for solid profit growth this year as a result of the uncertainty created by President Trump’s...

House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump

The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including...

Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know

The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet.Amazon, the company...

Inside The Mad Dash to Turn Division I Athletes Into Influencers

On a February afternoon at the University of North Carolina, a group of seven students on the diving team sat barefoot on the...

Spotify Paid $100 Million to Podcasters as Creator Wars Heat Up

Spotify has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers and creators since January, the company told The New York Times’s DealBook.The payout...

Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns

In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the northern Gaza Strip who had helped plan...

Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week, with big developments in two antitrust cases against...

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.

The question of whether to be polite to artificial intelligence may seem a moot point — it is artificial, after all.But Sam Altman,...

Alphabet Reports 12% Increase in Revenue

Google might be threatened with a breakup after losing two antitrust cases, but in the meantime it can console itself with piles of...

If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?

One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should...

Saying ‘Thank You’ to Chat GPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.

The question of whether to be polite to artificial intelligence may seem a moot point — it is artificial, after all.But Sam Altman,...

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