States Plow Ahead With A.I. Regulation, Defying Trump
States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on the technology even after the president ordered them to stop.
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China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot suffers longest outage since viral rise in early 2025
DeepSeek’s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a ‘major outage’ lasting 7 hours, 13 minutes BEIJING: China’s popular DeepSeek artificial intelligence chatbot suffered its longest outage on Monday since the rise of its flagship R1 and V3 models early last year. DeepSeek’s status website showed that the chatbot suffered a “major outage” lasting 7 … Read more
What Is YouTube’s Dominance Doing to Us? We Asked Its C.E.O.
Neal Mohan on A.I. slop, parental controls and his platform’s impact on our lives.
Sony to hike PlayStation 5 prices again as memory chip costs surge
AI boom drives memory makers to prioritise data-centre chips, squeezing supply for devices Prices of the PlayStation Portal remote player will also climb to $249.99 from $199.99.۔ PHOTO: PLAYSTATION WEBSITE Sony Group is raising global prices of its PlayStation 5 consoles, including a $100 increase in the United States, marking its second hike in less … Read more
China blasts ‘false’ news after report says chipmaker supplying Iran
China is a key partner of Iran but has not announced military assistance to Tehran in the war Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian attends a press conference in Beijing, China, on April 10, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS China’s foreign ministry accused the media of publishing “false information” on Friday following a report that said the … Read more
The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?
The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars
Perseverance rover maps buried delta dating back up to 4.2 billion years using ground-penetrating radar A ‘selfie’ taken by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, released on Wednesday, shows a rock nicknamed ‘Cheyava Falls, seen to the left of the rover. Photo: REUTERS Using ground-penetrating radar, NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected underground remains of an ancient river … Read more
Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media
new video loaded: Why the Verdict Against Meta and YouTube Could Change Social Media In a landmark case, a jury found Meta and YouTube guilty of creating products that were addictive. Ryan Mac explains the outcome and what it could mean for tech companies going forward. By Ryan Mac, Christina Thornell, Nikolay Nikolov and Edward … Read more
Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’
The decision is an early victory for the artificial intelligence company in a rancorous legal battle with the Department of Justice.
Binance Under Fire After Reports That $1.7 Billion in Crypto Flowed to Iran
The world’s largest crypto exchange is under fire after investigators found accounts moving $1.7 billion to Iranian entities. Clues about those accounts were in plain sight for over a year.
