Articles from www.nytimes.com

Articles from www.nytimes.com

Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-23 Startup

Analysis: since 2023, US states enacted 120+ deepfake-related laws, with 26 passed in 2025 alone; California passed eight deepfake bills in September 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 California

FTC v. Meta: Meta rested its case on May 21 after four days of arguments, including that it faces hefty competition and helped build Instagram and WhatsApp (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Instagram WhatsApp

How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Startup AI YouTube

Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Microsoft AI

Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal so is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; separately, OpenAI's Start-up Fund invested in io last year (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22

President Trump's recent Middle East trip helped Elon Musk's SpaceX and Neuralink to cut deals, deepening Musk's ties with the region's autocratic monarchies (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-20 Trump Elon Musk SpaceX

Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the US' third-largest district, trained 1,000+ educators on AI and introduced Gemini to 105K+ students, the largest US rollout (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-19 AI

An analysis of YouTube's new weekly ranking of top podcasts in the US by watch time shows many popular and well-established podcasts did not rank in the top 100 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-18 YouTube

Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-17 China Alibaba AI Apple

Sources: under the Trump administration, the SEC continues investigating whether Coinbase misstated its user numbers by reporting 100M+ “verified users” in 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-16 Trump Coinbase

Analysis: the US government canceled 1,400+ federal research grants worth $1B+, including many studying online misinformation, citing protection of 1A rights (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-15

How Mayo Clinic is using AI to boost efficiency and amplify human abilities in its radiology department, which has an AI team of 40 people and 400+ radiologists (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-15 AI

US SEC filing: GD Culture Group, a struggling China-linked company that has only eight staff, plans to buy $300M in BTC and $TRUMP, creating ethical conflicts (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-15 Trump China

Filing: GD Culture Group, a struggling China-linked company that has only eight staff, plans to buy $300M in BTC and $TRUMP, creating clear ethical conflicts (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-14 Trump China

The Trump administration appears more interested than Biden's was in striking AI chip deals in the Middle East, where Trump has deep financial and business ties (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-13 Trump AI

Sources: the Trump admin is considering a sale of hundreds of thousands of US AI chips to UAE's G42 and is expected to unveil a deal with Saudi Arabia's Humain (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-13 Trump AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

How President Trump is leveraging the US' dominance in AI chips to secure strategic deals with Middle Eastern oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-12 Trump AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Q&A with Whitney Wolfe Herd about returning as Bumble CEO, Tinder lawsuit, being bullish about using AI in dating apps, funding for female founders, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-12 AI

Court filing: internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-11

How Apple's extraordinary measures to keep its App Store commissions after the Epic v. Apple trial led to a civil contempt ruling and weakened its credibility (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-11 Apple

Pinterest agrees to pay $34.7M to settle a 2021 lawsuit from Christine Martinez, an early adviser who claimed she co-created the platform without compensation (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-10

At a Manhattan event, TikTok executives tried to reassure ad clients, saying that “we are absolutely confident” in TikTok and “in the future of this platform” (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-10

How Apple's extraordinary measures to preserve App Store commissions after the Epic v. Apple trial resulted in a contempt ruling and damaged its credibility (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-10 Apple

Trump threatens to end the Digital Equity Act, a Biden-era law aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling it “racist” and “totally unconstitutional” (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-9 Trump Equity Racism

Q&A with Bill Gates on shutting down the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045, the Trump administration, Elon Musk, AI drug discovery, AI's potential, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-8 Trump AI Elon Musk Bill Gates

OpenAI says Fidji Simo will lead its business and operations teams in her new role as CEO of Applications, overseeing sales, marketing, and finance (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-8

Netflix unveils a new home page design for TVs, its first update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out from next week (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-7 Netflix

At a Manhattan event, TikTok executives tried to reassure brands and ad clients, saying “we are absolutely confident” in TikTok “and confident in the future” (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-7

In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-6 Trump Microsoft

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