- They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.by Kashmir Hill on 13 June 2025 at 19:12
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
- Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Labby Mike Isaac and Cade Metz on 13 June 2025 at 18:46
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
- Nintendo Switch 2 Review: Bigger and Better, for a Higher Priceby Brian X. Chen on 13 June 2025 at 15:25
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.
- Charging Your EV May Be Getting Easier, Even if It’s Not a Teslaby Lawrence Ulrich on 13 June 2025 at 13:00
It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more likely to work — and not just for Teslas.
- Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automationby Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell and Marion Lozano on 13 June 2025 at 11:00
“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”
- Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?by Cade Metz on 13 June 2025 at 09:01
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.
- Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Timeby Dennis Overbye on 13 June 2025 at 09:00
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.
- Google DeepMind and National Hurricane Center Join on New A.I. Modelby William J. Broad on 12 June 2025 at 15:26
The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.
- As Energy Costs Surge, Eastern Governors Blame a Grid Managerby Ivan Penn on 12 June 2025 at 04:22
Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.
- This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Jobby Kevin Roose on 11 June 2025 at 09:01
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”
- John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Onlineby Clay Risen on 11 June 2025 at 03:09
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.
- How ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Overcame a Shaky Start and Won Big at the Tonysby Michael Paulson on 11 June 2025 at 01:35
Broadway’s best musical winner had to delay its opening last fall and was selling poorly. But strong word-of-mouth and reviews helped this quirky show triumph.
- Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creatorsby Eli Tan on 10 June 2025 at 21:59
Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.
- Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’by Cade Metz and Mike Isaac on 10 June 2025 at 15:48
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.
- Amid LA Protests, Conspiracy Theories and Fake Images Spread Onlineby Steven Lee Myers on 10 June 2025 at 14:20
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.
- Waymo Limits Service in San Francisco as LA Protests Spreadby Eli Tan and Ryan Mac on 9 June 2025 at 22:13
The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.
- Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74by John Markoff on 9 June 2025 at 21:48
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.”
- Apple Introduces ‘Liquid Glass’ Design and iOS 26 at WWDC 2025by Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen on 9 June 2025 at 21:03
The company also introduced artificial intelligence in its devices in the opening presentation of a company conference.
- Meta in Talks to Invest in Scale AIby Mike Isaac on 9 June 2025 at 20:31
Scale AI, an artificial intelligence start-up, has built a business by labeling and culling data to make it easier to use to train A.I. systems.
- Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinnerby Eric Lipton, David Yaffe-Bellany, Michael Forsythe, Devon Lum and Jiawei Wang on 9 June 2025 at 16:40
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.