Cormac McCarthy

A.I.’s Messy Moment + Listeners Respond to Jonathan Haidt + Shrimp Jesus

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week, we look at a mess of corporate drama in artificial...

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange who was convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers, was sentenced to 25...

Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.

In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta,...

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Sentence Compares With Other White-Collar Cases

Two years in prison for tax and securities violations. Eleven years for deceiving investors. A 150-year sentence for the largest Ponzi scheme in...

A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing.

When Elon Musk unveiled the first Chinese-made Teslas in Shanghai in 2020, he went off script and started dancing. Peeling off his jacket,...

‘Shortcuts Everywhere’: How Boeing Favored Speed Over Quality

In February last year, a new Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max plane was on one of its first flights when an automated stabilizing...

All You Need to Know about Beautytech | TechRepublic

The concept of beauty has evolved significantly over time. People have progressively embraced...

Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to Its Stake in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic

Amazon said on Wednesday that it had added $2.75 billion to its investment in Anthropic, a start-up that competes with companies like OpenAI...

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise

In recent weeks, American lawmakers have moved to ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok. President Biden reinforced his commitment to overcome China’s rise in...

All You Need to Know about Fintech | TechRepublic

The popularity of financial technology (fintech) is growing rapidly as it continues to...

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was...

The U.S. Investors Caught in the Scrum Over TikTok

For years, the U.S. investors who backed ByteDance, the Chinese internet company that owns TikTok, have wrestled with the complexities of owning a...

All You Need to Know about Healthtech | TechRepublic

In today’s fast-paced world, where demands often require people to work long hours,...

DeSantis Signs Social Media Bill Barring Accounts for Children Under 14

Florida on Monday became the first state to effectively bar residents under the age of 14 from holding accounts on services like TikTok...

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