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Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial (Wed, 25 Mar 2026)
A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
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OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator (Tue, 24 Mar 2026)
The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.
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Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations (Tue, 24 Mar 2026)
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.
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Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips (Tue, 24 Mar 2026)
For years, the company sold chip designs to other companies. Now it plans to sell its own chips for A.I. data centers.
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Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump (Wed, 25 Mar 2026)
The cut represents about 20 percent of the video game company’s work force, a spokeswoman said.
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Judge Hears State Challenge to Trump’s Tech Deal Settlement (Mon, 23 Mar 2026)
Democratic state attorneys general are fighting the Justice Department’s clearance of a $14 billion deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, arguing it was ineffective and corrupt.
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‘Real Housewives’ Has Been a Meme Gold Mine for 20 Years (Mon, 23 Mar 2026)
The Bravo TV empire, which turns 20 this month, has also been a gold mine for the internet.
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Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker (Sat, 21 Mar 2026)
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
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What to Know About Electric Cars When Gas Prices Are Surging (Sat, 21 Mar 2026)
War in Iran has disrupted global oil supplies, which is prompting some car shoppers to look for ways to climb off “the gas-price roller coaster.”
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Elon Musk Is Responsible for Some Twitter Investor Losses, Jury Finds (Fri, 20 Mar 2026)
The verdict was a rare loss for Mr. Musk, who investors claimed had tried to drive down the share price of the social media company, now called X, to renegotiate his $44 billion offer.
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More! More! More! Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use. (Fri, 20 Mar 2026)
At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.
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Polymarket Says It Deals in Truth, but Its Social Feeds Are Filled With Falsehoods (Fri, 20 Mar 2026)
A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
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‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing (Fri, 20 Mar 2026)
Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
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U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.
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Jeff Bezos in Talks to Raise $100 Billion Fund to Transform Companies With A.I. (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.
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Have You Turned to A.I. For Advice on a Romantic Relationship? (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
People are using generative A.I. chatbots for help on everything from starting to ending a relationship. Have you? How did it turn out?
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The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
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A.I. Bots Can Act as Personal Digital Assistants, but There Are Serious Risks (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble.
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AI Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ (Thu, 19 Mar 2026)
Kilmer’s estate collaborated with the filmmakers to make a digital likeness of the actor, who died of cancer last year.
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Silicon Valley Musters Behind-the-Scenes Support for Anthropic (Wed, 18 Mar 2026)
Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.
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