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John HerrmanDaily Intelligencer |
Meta has an idea: Instead of ever leaving its apps, why not stay and chat with a bot? This past week, Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to Meta’s...
Meta has an idea: Instead of ever leaving its apps, why not stay and chat with a bot? This past week, Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to Meta’s...
You’re sneezing a lot, and your eyes are watering. Maybe you have allergies, pets, or both. Perhaps you live somewhere with smog or in a region...
You’re sneezing a lot, and your eyes are watering. Maybe you have allergies, pets, or both. Perhaps you live somewhere with smog or in a region...
The sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators,...
The sudden explosion of AI products has been, for the most part, a story told through software. Consumer AI is all about chatbots, media generators,...
Last year, Trump Media & Technology Group lost $58.2 million on $4.1 million in revenue. In March, it went public under the symbol DJT, and today its...
Last year, Trump Media & Technology Group lost $58.2 million on $4.1 million in revenue. In March, it went public under the symbol DJT, and today its...
In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French digital-marketing company called...
In December of last year, Ariel, a 24-year-old content creator in New Jersey, received a message from a French digital-marketing company called...
“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022. “The bots are in for a surprise...
“If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying,” wrote Elon Musk in May 2022. “The bots are in for a surprise...
In a lawsuit filed in conjunction with 15 states and Washington D.C., the Department of Justice has claimed that Apple has a “monopoly” in its...
In a lawsuit filed in conjunction with 15 states and Washington D.C., the Department of Justice has claimed that Apple has a “monopoly” in its...
In June, Twitter started telling investors that video was the future of the platform. In January, the company, now called X, declared the job done in...
In June, Twitter started telling investors that video was the future of the platform. In January, the company, now called X, declared the job done in...
Nearly four years ago, Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok with an executive order, describing the app’s connections to the Chinese government, its...
Nearly four years ago, Donald Trump attempted to ban TikTok with an executive order, describing the app’s connections to the Chinese government, its...
In 2022, after its subscriber numbers dipped for the first time in a decade, Netflix started making some changes. In the coming years, it would raise...
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would give TikTok owner ByteDance a deadline to divest itself of the social-media...
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would give TikTok owner ByteDance a deadline to divest itself of the social media...
Apple has spent nearly a decade not-so-quietly trying to build a car. It poached big shots from Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lamborghini...
Apple has spent nearly a decade not-so-quietly trying to build a car. It poached big shots from Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Lamborghini...
Last week, users noticed that Google’s chatbot, Gemini, was pretty insistent about generating racially diverse images of people. Insistent enough,...
Last week, users noticed that Google’s chatbot, Gemini, was pretty insistent about generating racially diverse images of people. Insistent enough,...
Reddit has filed to go public. It’s a long time coming: The social-media company is a hugely popular, influential, and often useful platform whose...
Reddit has filed to go public. It’s a long time coming: The social-media company is a hugely popular, influential, and often useful platform whose...
Whenever a new AI tool comes out, thousands of users rush to test it, trip it up, and figure out what it’s capable of. This week, it’s Google’s...
Whenever a new AI tool comes out, thousands of users rush to test it, trip it up, and figure out what it’s capable of. This week, it’s Google’s...
This week, OpenAI shared a series of videos it says were produced with a new tool called Sora. Like Dall-e, OpenAI’s image-generation software, Sora...
This week, OpenAI shared a series of videos it says were produced with a new tool called Sora. Like Dall-e, OpenAI’s image generation software, Sora...
Walmart is a retailer with more than 4,500 stores and a pretty big website. Vizio is a company that sells millions of TVs at reasonable prices, many...
Walmart is a retailer with more than 4,500 stores and a pretty big website. Vizio is a company that sells millions of TVs at reasonable prices, many...
In a January social-media post, MSNBC host Chris Hayes wondered, “Do the Biden campaign people understand the degree to which he is being...
In a January social-media post, MSNBC host Chris Hayes wondered, “Do the Biden campaign people understand the degree to which he is being...
In late January, the Senate Judiciary Committee dragged a bunch of tech executives to Washington for a hearing that was, in theory, about online child...
For some buyers, Apple Vision Pro’s most compelling use is one that Apple didn’t advertise. It’s a native feature of the device that allows its...
Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth, and the portal through...
The Apple Vision Pro isn’t the easiest sell, at least for now. As a concept, VR goggles still pose more questions than they answer. As a category,...
Experts have for years warned about the nefarious potential of generative AI, sketching a paranoid, dystopian future full of identity theft,...
Over the last four months, TikTok has undergone a rapid change, arguably the biggest in its strange short history: The most influential social app of...
For a preview of how AI will collide with creative industries, look to advertising. Amazon, Google, and Meta have all started encouraging advertisers...
By most measures, for many years now, things have been going pretty well for the Amazon corporation. It’s the dominant American e-commerce firm,...
This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” with...
In October 2022, Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter, which he soon rebranded as X. Since then, things haven’t gone quite as smoothly as they...
For the past year, the political class has been wearing itself out over what sounds like a simple question: Why are Americans so down on the economy?...
This holiday season, Amazon will cheerily assert its dominance on doorsteps across the country. There will be the stacks of Amazon boxes, of course,...
Last Friday, seemingly out of nowhere, the board of OpenAI announced that it had fired its celebrity CEO, Sam Altman, for being “not consistently...
What’s going on with Meta these days? It’s simple, really. Instagram is TikTok but also Snapchat. Threads is Twitter but also Instagram. Facebook...