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March 11, 2024

Vision Pro Goggles Are Not Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says

Kyle C. Garrison

Connected media - Related media Is this the future? A world in which people can’t step away from the digital realm long enough to focus solely on everyday tasks such…

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March 9, 2024

BMW Is a Surprise Winner in Electric Vehicles

Kyle C. Garrison

As BMW car bodies glided down an assembly line in Munich recently, showered by sparks from robotic welders, it was hard to tell which vehicles would be powered by batteries,…

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March 8, 2024

Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster

Kyle C. Garrison

More than three months after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted Sam Altman, the chief executive of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, questions remain about exactly what led the board…

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March 6, 2024

The Youths Have Spoken: Wallets Are Lame. Go Digital.

Kyle C. Garrison

To a growing number of youths, a wallet stuffed with cash and cards is as unfashionable as the millennial tuck, no-show socks and skinny jeans. To the cool kids, carrying…

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March 4, 2024

‘Dune: Part Two’ Gives Sci-Fi-Obsessed Silicon Valley a Reason to Party

Kyle C. Garrison

In a top-floor atrium in downtown San Francisco on Thursday evening, tech workers from Google, Slack, X and Mozilla mingled next to a pair of cardboard cutouts of Timothée Chalamet…

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March 3, 2024

The Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit

Kyle C. Garrison

It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes.Mr. Musk sued OpenAI this week, accusing the company of breaching the terms of…

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March 1, 2024

Gemini’s Culture War, Kara Swisher Burns Us and SCOTUS Takes Up Content Moderation

Kyle C. Garrison

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeGoogle removed the ability to generate images of people from its Gemini chatbot. We talk about why, and about the…

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February 28, 2024

Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End

Kyle C. Garrison

WilmerHale, a prominent U.S. law firm, is close to wrapping up a detailed review of OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and his ouster from the artificial intelligence start-up late last…

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February 27, 2024

Why Microsoft Has Accepted Unions, Unlike Its Rivals

Kyle C. Garrison

The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough. Managers at a Wisconsin studio called Raven began meeting one by…

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