A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent

In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new domain name and configured its settings. Booked a Valentine’s Day date for me and my wife. Scheduled a haircut. It did these tasks mostly autonomously, although I did have…

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DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working

When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in the United States, the news was greeted in many circles as a warning that China was closing the gap in the global race to build artificial intelligence. DeepSeek also said it built…

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Elon Musk, Video Game King? Well, Maybe Not.

On its face, the claim feels improbable: In addition to being the world’s richest man, the chief executive of multiple companies and a key adviser to President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world-class video game player. It is a claim that Mr. Musk has repeated through the years. He has an account…

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TikTok Butters Up Trump as It Navigates a Ban in the U.S.

Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos, they have visited Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago, flattered him on X and donated to his inaugural fund. But TikTok has taken those methods to the next level. As the Chinese-owned social app…

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Spain Overhauls Domestic Violence System After Criticism

The Spanish government this week announced a major overhaul to a program in which police rely on an algorithm to identify potential repeat victims of domestic violence, after officials faced questions about the system’s effectiveness. The program, VioGén, requires police officers to ask a victim a series of questions. Answers are entered into a software…

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Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit if TikTok Is Banned

On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of its employees about the state of American politics. Alex Schultz, the chief marketing officer, addressed questions about Meta’s embrace of the incoming Trump administration and what he said was the company’s precarious standing overseas, according to two attendees. He also said that…

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Spain Overhauls Domestic Violence System After Criticism

The Spanish government this week announced a major overhaul to a program in which police rely on an algorithm to identify potential repeat victims of domestic violence, after officials faced questions about the system’s effectiveness. The program, VioGén, requires police officers to ask a victim a series of questions. Answers are entered into a software…

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Apple Plans to Disable A.I. Summaries of News Notifications

Less than six months after rolling out a series of artificial intelligence features, Apple is disabling one of its signature capabilities: aggregating and summarizing news notifications. The company revealed the change on Thursday in a software update for developers. It follows an outcry from British media outlets that Apple’s software was misrepresenting news reports. In…

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