Business
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May- 2023 -2 May
Vice Is Said to Be Headed for Bankruptcy
Vice, the brash digital-media disrupter that charmed giants like Disney and Fox into investing before a stunning crash-landing, is preparing…
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1 May
Facial Recognition Powers ‘Automated Apartheid’ in Israel, Report Says
Israel is increasingly relying on facial recognition in the occupied West Bank to track Palestinians and restrict their passage through…
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1 May
First Republic Bank Is Seized by Regulators and Sold to JPMorgan Chase
Regulators seized control of First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, a dramatic move aimed at…
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1 May
First Republic Is Sold: What to Know
But in the United States, the sale took a little longer. It wasn’t until late March that the F.D.I.C. said…
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1 May
Trickling Tax Revenue Complicates Debt Limit Talks
WASHINGTON — A vote by House Republicans last week to lift the nation’s debt limit in exchange for deep spending…
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1 May
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University…
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1 May
When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate
When did The New York Times first report on “artificial intelligence”? According to ChatGPT, it was July 10, 1956, in…
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1 May
In Transylvania, Anyone With $200 Can Live Like a King. (Well, One Specific King.)
There isn’t a front desk or even a lobby at the Prince of Wales Guesthouse, a trio of rustic buildings…
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1 May
Jerry Mander, Adman for Radical Causes, Dies at 86
Jerry Mander, whose iconoclastic thinking led him to create advertising campaigns for nonprofits like one for the Sierra Club in…
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Apr- 2023 -30 April
Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?
When the union representing Hollywood writers laid out its list of objectives for contract negotiations with studios this spring, it…
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