Category Archives: Business

The Amazonification of Buying a New Car

Tesla pioneered selling vehicles online. Electric cars, the pandemic, and changing consumer behavior are now causing other automakers to embrace the shift.

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Ukraine’s Startups Kept Innovating Through 1 Year of War

Founders and coders have shipped updates through blackouts and from bomb shelters. “There’s no way out except to fight for the future,” one worker says.

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How One Guy’s AI Tracked the Chinese Spy Balloon Across the US

Computer vision software scoured satellite photos to spot the balloon at six locations around the nation—and is now helping trace it back to its origin.

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Who Should You Believe When Chatbots Go Wild?

Microsoft and others ask us to ignore their glitchy bots’ pleas for personhood. But we need better explanations—and guardrails.

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Amazon Has a Donkey Meat Problem

The online retailer sells products meant for human consumption that contain donkey meat. A new lawsuit claims that’s illegal in California.

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Ukraine’s War Brings Autonomous Weapons to the Front Lines

Drones that can find their own targets already exist, making machine-versus-machine conflict just a software update away.

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How Ukraine’s Trains Kept Running Despite Bombs, Blackouts, and Biden

Since Russia’s full-scale assault began, Ukraine’s railways evacuated 4 million people and brought 300 foreign delegations to Kyiv.

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Should Algorithms Control Nuclear Weapons Launch Codes? The US Says No

A new State Department proposal asks other nations to agree to limits on the power of military AI.

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Facebook Is Still Letting Russia Interfere in Politics

Russian-backed groups are using political ads to subvert the democratic process in Moldova.

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Why the US Congress Wants to Ban TikTok

Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled.

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