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How to Tell if Your A.I. is Conscious

Have you ever talked to someone who is “into consciousness?” How did that conversation go? Did they make a vague gesture in the air...

U.A.W. Starts Strike Small, but Repercussions Could Prove Far-Reaching

Autoworkers walked off the job on Friday at three factories that produce some of the Detroit carmakers’ most popular vehicles, the opening salvos in...

Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike

A battle between Detroit carmakers and the United Auto Workers union, which escalated on Friday with targeted strikes in three locations, is unfolding amid...

‘One of the Most Hated People in the World’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s 250 Pages of Justifications

At the end of a 15,000-word Twitter thread he never posted, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, offered a blunt...

The Stock Market Hopes Arm’s IPO Is a Hit

Call it Wall Street’s Groundhog Day.When shares of Arm, the British chip designer, began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday in the...

What to Know About the Potential Autoworkers Strike

The United Auto Workers union, which represents about 150,000 workers at U.S. car plants, could strike against three of the country’s largest automakers on...

The U.S. Justice Dept. Is Taking Google to Trial: What to Know

Follow live updates from Google’s antitrust trial A federal judge will start hearing claims this week from the Justice Department and a group of...

Microsoft, Google and Antitrust: Similar Legal Theories in a Different Era

The Justice Department argues in a federal antitrust suit that Google is a dominant tech company that has abused its market power to bully...

The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release

One afternoon in early 2017, at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., an engineer named Tommer Leyvand sat in a conference room with a...

Takeaways From a New Elon Musk Biography: Ukraine, Trump and More

A new biography of Elon Musk portrays the billionaire entrepreneur as a complex, tortured figure whose brilliance is often overshadowed by his inability to...

SpaceX Needs to Make 63 Fixes Before Next Starship Launch, FAA Orders

The NewsThe next giant Starship rocket from Elon Musk’s SpaceX is standing on the launching pad in South Texas. But the Federal Aviation Administration...

Mattel’s Windfall From ‘Barbie’ – The New York Times

When Ynon Kreiz arrived at Mattel in April 2018, the newly installed chief executive had one mantra when it came to a feature film...

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