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24  janvier     19h24
TikTok Ban and Trump Executive Order Lead to Tech Company Dilemma
Sapna Maheshwari, Aaron Krolik and Tripp Mickle    The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law and some, including Apple and Google, are not.
    21h39
Meta to Increase Spending to 65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push
Mike Isaac    Much of the capital investment, a big jump from , will fund expansion of Meta’s data centers, which provide the computing power needed by A.I. products and algorithms.
    04h41
Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Claire Cain Miller, Kate Conger and Mike Isaac    Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
23  janvier     23h43
Trump Issues Executive Order to Boost Cryptocurrency Industry
David Yaffe-Bellany    The order signaled that the president intends to promote an industry that faced scrutiny during the Biden administration and that he has a personal stake in.
24  janvier     15h57
Quantum TikTok Memecoin Mania Chris Hayes on the Attention Wars
Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Rachel Dry, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong    We are starting to see how Silicon Valley wants to do business during the Trump administration.
    10h00
Eternal You’ and the Ethics of Using A.I. to Talk’ to Dead Loved Ones
Alissa Wilkinson    Examining what it means to make money by selling the bereaved on an illusion, the film feels like something of a warning.
23  janvier     21h54
In the TikTok Show Famehungry,’ All the World’s an Audience
Annie Aguiar    Famehungry, a show that’s performed simultaneously for in person and online crowds, comes to New York in the wake of the app’s brief ban in the United States.
    19h38
OpenAI Unveils New Agent Tool Operator’
Cade Metz    The new tool, called Operator, can shop for groceries or book a restaurant reservation. But it still needs help from humans.
    19h38
A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It Yet
Kevin Roose    The creators of a new test called Humanity’s Last Exam argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.
    22h23
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google
Cade Metz and Meaghan Tobin    The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
    01h06
How Trump Decided to Pardon Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac    Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website, leveraged President Trump’s desire for political support to secure his release.
    03h13
Amazon Closes Operations in Quebec, Laying off 1,700 Workers
Karen Weise and Vjosa Isai    Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.
22  janvier     23h08
Reddit Users Boycott X Links After Elon Musk’s Gesture at Inaugural Event
Isabella Kwai    A boycott of links to Mr. Musk’s social media platform spread on Reddit this week, after he made a gesture that some likened to a Nazi salute. Others worried about censorship.
    20h42
South Carolina Utility Wants to Sell Unfinished Nuclear Power Site
Danielle Kaye    The utility, Santee Cooper, is trying to sell two nuclear reactors that it abandoned in as tech companies seek new sources of electricity for data centers.
    19h36
Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Trump on Instagram and Facebook
Mike Isaac    Many Instagram and Facebook users say they are confused about why they are seeing posts from the president and vice president in their feeds. Here’s what to know.
    00h28
Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
David Yaffe-Bellany and Ryan Mac    Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
21  janvier     22h42
What Trump’s Pledge to Plant the U.S. Flag on Mars Really Means
Kenneth Chang    The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear.
    21h53
CapCut, a Video-Editing App From ByteDance, Returns for U.S. Users
Sapna Maheshwari    Other apps from the company behind TikTok, including CapCut and Lemon , went dark this weekend before flickering back. The federal law banning TikTok also applies to them.
    23h26
Trump Announces 100 Billion Stargate A.I. Initiative With OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank
Cecilia Kang and Cade Metz    OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank formed a new joint venture called Stargate to invest in data centers, building on major U.S. investments in the technology.
    20h41
Trump’s Executive Order to End E.V. Subsidies Draws Pushback
Jack Ewing    Automakers and even some Republicans may fight to preserve funds, and environmental activists will likely sue, but some experts said that some changes may not survive legal challenges.
    15h48
When Google Altered Its Ad Rules, Charities Paid the Price
Nico Grant    After the search giant welcomed more ads from small rivals like Ask.com, Google ad costs for some nonprofits ballooned.
23  janvier     11h53
Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban
David McCabe    Shortly after taking office Monday, the president issued the order to delay the app’s ban for days. The law went into effect on Sunday.
21  janvier     03h01
TikTok Got a Reprieve, but Americans and Chinese Are Still on RedNote
Meaghan Tobin and Claire Fu    The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.
20  janvier     07h09
TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
Li Yuan    China’s internet companies and their hard working, resourceful professionals make world class products, in spite of censorship and malign neglect by Beijing.
    13h29
TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S.
Sapna Maheshwari    The app has repeatedly name checked the president elect in pop up messages and statements, as it navigates a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non Chinese owner.
19  janvier     23h11
TikTok Ban Behind Fire Set at a Mall With Congressman’s Office, Police Say
Johnny Diaz    No one was injured. The building, which includes a district office of a Wisconsin congressman who has been a critic of TikTok, sustained moderate damage in the fire on Sunday.
    20h51
Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
Mike Isaac    Instagram on Sunday rolled out Edits, a video editing product that appeared similar to CapCut, which is owned by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.
    17h50
What We Know About the TikTok Ban
Sapna Maheshwari    The popular video app went dark in the United States late Saturday and then came back around noon on Sunday, even as a law banning it took effect.
    23h47
TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
David McCabe    Some users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.
    15h16
Does Banning TikTok solve the National Security Issue?
Sapna Maheshwari, Melanie Bencosme and Laura Salaberry    TikTok is set to be blocked in the U.S. after the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the app. TikTok, a Chinese owned social media platform, has drawn scrutiny from lawmakers for its national security risks and its ties to China. Sapna Maheshwari, a business reporter for The New York...
    16h00
TikTok Ban Takes Effect and App Goes Dark in the U.S.
Sapna Maheshwari, Madison Malone Kircher, Eli Tan and Meaghan Tobin    The popular video app stopped working shortly before a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok was set to take effect on Sunday.
    18h18
A Who’s Who at Peter Thiel’s Trump Party: Zuckerberg, Adelson and More
Theodore Schleifer and Alyson Krueger    The party symbolized the euphoria of the tech industry on the cusp of the Trump presidency. The guest list included Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Miriam Adelson and the vice president elect, JD Vance.
21  janvier     18h35
The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done
David Marchese    The once fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.
19  janvier     04h19
What if No One Misses TikTok?
Kevin Roose    TikTok’s cultural footprint in America is huge. Why is its disappearance being met with a shrug
18  janvier     10h01
C.I.A.’s Chatbot Stands In for World Leaders
Julian E. Barnes    The spy agency is trying to give its teams better tools and make it easier for the private sector to develop technology for their secretive work.
    22h23
Biden and Trump Weigh In as TikTok Threatens to Go Dark’ on Sunday
David McCabe    The Chinese owned company said it would cut off its services unless the U.S. assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for hosting and distributing TikTok.