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The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.

  • By Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur, Aaron Krolik and David McCabe
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Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology

A start-up in New York is among a group of companies working on systems that can produce short videos based on a few words typed into a computer.

  • By Cade Metz
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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’

Technology and loneliness are interlinked, researchers have found, stoked by the ways we interact with social media, text messaging and binge-watching.

  • By Brian X. Chen
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As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology

Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington’s ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.

  • By Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano
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The Illicit Flow of Technology to Russia Goes Through This Hong Kong Address

Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.

  • By Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur
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Ego, Fear and Money: How the A.I. Fuse Was Lit

The people who were most afraid of the risks of artificial intelligence decided they should be the ones to build it. Then distrust fueled a spiraling competition.

  • By Cade Metz, Karen Weise, Nico Grant and Mike Isaac
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OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology for ‘Natural Conversation’

The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.

  • By Cade Metz
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A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn

Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.

  • By Kevin Roose
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OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer Starts Her Own Company

Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up.

  • By Cade Metz
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Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever

ChatGPT’s release a year ago triggered a desperate scramble among tech companies and alarm from some of the people who helped invent it.

  • By Karen Weise, Cade Metz, Nico Grant and Mike Isaac
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