James Farrell

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok had a funny turn over the last few days when it started responding to random questions with information about violence against white people in South Africa, which some people have controversially alleged is a “white […]

The National Security Council today said it’s reviewing an incident in which The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal chat in which top White House officials discussed operational war plans against the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg,

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, announced today that it will begin testing its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. The old system of third-party fact-checking has been with the company since 2016.

So far, generative artificial intelligence models have only been able to pull off crude assimilations of fiction writing, but OpenAI’s Chief Executive, Sam Altman, today said his firm has trained a model for that particular purpose, and he claims it’s

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and other digital currencies, an account whose value is currently worth billions of dollars. It’s estimated that there is close to 200,000 bitcoin held by the U.S.

Utah today became the first state to pass legislation mandating app stores verify users’ ages and require parental consent for young people to download apps. As the U.S. struggles to tackle online safety for minors, the onus so far has

Meta Platforms Inc. today had to apologize after a glitch caused its Instagram Reels feature to inundate users with videos of real-life horror. “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed

A group of 21 civil servants resigned today rather than help implement changes to the federal government as requested by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. “We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the

After a recent email demanding federal employees summarize their work, it’s now understood that the responses will be assessed by an artificial intelligence system to determine if their work is valuable. “Consistent with President @realDonaldTrump’s instructions, all federal employees will

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will investigate alleged censorship on tech platforms, explaining that any wrongdoing would “have violated the law.” “Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, recently chosen by