Cormac McCarthy

Threads Review: How Meta’s New App Stacks Up Against Twitter

When we — Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac, both longtime tech journalists — got an assignment from our editor last week to...

‘An Act of War’: Inside America’s Silicon Blockade Against China

By squeezing on the industry’s natural choke points, the Biden administration aims to block China from the future of chip technology. The effects...

Chinese Hackers Breached Government Email Accounts, Microsoft Says

Chinese hackers intent on collecting intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft disclosed on Tuesday night.The attack was...

Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism

It’s a few weeks before the release of Claude, a new A.I. chatbot from the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic, and the nervous energy...

Judge Rejects F.T.C. Delay of $70 Billion Microsoft-Activision Deal

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to delay Microsoft’s $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, setting the...

Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality

A big tech company with billions of users introduces a new social network. Leveraging the popularity and scale of its existing products, the...

What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature

ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot made by OpenAI, has wowed the world in recent months with the text it can generate. Now the chatbot...

Should I Use Generative AI for Hiring?

Generative AI like ChatGPT can enhance, not replace, human decision-making like any other hiring tool, according to...

U.S. and E.U. Finalize Long-Awaited Deal on Sharing Data

A deal to ensure that data from Meta, Google and scores of other companies can continue flowing between the United States and European...

Twitter Sues Law Firm Over $90 Million Payment in Elon Musk Deal

Twitter’s parent company sued a leading corporate law firm on Friday for what it said were unjust payments related to Elon Musk’s $44...

China Fines Ant Group $985 Million, in Sign Crackdown Is Over

The Chinese authorities announced a fine of nearly $1 billion for the financial technology firm Ant Group on Friday, nearly three years after...

How to Use A.I. for Family Time

As always, to play it safe, double check the recipes to make sure your bot isn’t hallucinating.GiftsLet’s move on to gift giving —...

F.B.I. Searched the Home of Crypto Exchange Founder

The F.B.I. searched the home of the cryptocurrency executive Jesse Powell in March as part of a criminal investigation into claims that he...

Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire

Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more...

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