Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

The shutdown of online discourse within Iran has allowed both the government and its critics to flood social media outside the country with disinformation campaigns and fake images.

Google?s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.

?If we can?t win on social media, then we definitely can?t win on A.I.,? says Haidt.

A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.

The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its chatbot over the next several weeks.

Demand from centers that power artificial intelligence has driven up electricity bills, frustrating consumers.

Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company?s clout.

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.

The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company?s computing power.

The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

Systems like OpenAI?s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Under a near-total communications blackout, users of Elon Musk?s satellite service have gotten online without paying, organizations that work on tech issues said.

The tech giant is responding to concerns that data centers are driving up electricity costs in some communities.

A ?Hard Fork? and ?Search Engine? collaboration.

The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta?s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.

Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

A British regulator said it had started a formal investigation into Mr. Musk?s chatbot over the spread of illegal images.

Audiences can embark on a very different type of theatrical experience in a new play at the Shed, blending the physical world with digital content.

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