Cormac McCarthy

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,...

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist

A quiet honor student who had recently graduated from Immaculate High School in Danbury, Veer Chetal was about to begin studying at Rutgers...

On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War

Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight...

Trump Offers a Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin

The flashy online announcement called it “the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” a chance to have “an intimate private dinner” with President...

YouTube Turns 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’

The video is short — just 19 seconds — and not particularly compelling. A viewer would be forgiven for clicking away before it...

Discord’s Jason Citron Steps Down as CEO of the Social Chat App

Jason Citron, a co-founder of the popular social chat app Discord, stepped down as the company’s chief executive on Wednesday, a significant management...

OpenAI’s o3: AI Benchmark Discrepancy Reveals Gaps in Performance Claims

The latest results from FrontierMath, a benchmark test for generative AI on advanced math problems, show OpenAI’s o3 model performed worse than OpenAI...

Spotlight on AI This Earth Day: ‘AI Is Fundamentally Incompatible With Environmental Sustainability’

Generative AI is energy-intensive, and the ways in which its environmental impact can be calculated are complex. Consider the downstream effect of generative...

Google is Betting Big on Nuclear Energy – Here’s Why

Google has unveiled plans to lead the way in the adoption of nuclear energy for the data center. At Data Center World 2025...

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