Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies…
Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeKevin Roose and Whitney Jones and Dan Powell, Elisheba…
The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot
What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the…
Uber and Lyft Agree to Increase Driver Benefits in Massachusetts
The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.Uber…
AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Users Hit by Service Outage in Europe
The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for…
Bots Tied to China Are Harassing a Dissident’s Teenage Daughter
Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China…
NBC to Offer Olympics Highlights Narrated by AI-Generated Al Michaels
NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.The Olympics have ancient…
Consulting Firms Are the Early Winners of the AI Boom
Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on…
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Biden Administration’s Contacts With Social Media Companies
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the…
Off to Norway, With Three A.I. Travel Assistants
Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put…