The quest to create an A.I. therapist has not been without setbacks or, as researchers at Dartmouth thoughtfully describe them, “dramatic failures.” Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its own suicidal thoughts. A second model seemed to amplify all the worst tropes of psychotherapy, invariably blaming the user’s problems on her parents. […]
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In a partial roll back of its retaliation against U.S. tariffs, Canada’s finance minister said on Tuesday that the government would let automakers import vehicles assembled in the United States duty-free provided that they continued to build cars in Canada and continued with previously announced expansions. Last week, Canada began charging 25 percent tariffs on […]
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Reporters trying to get interviews with Steven Spielberg would sometimes grouse that his publicist’s job amounted to speaking a single word: “No.” But Marvin Levy, who served as Mr. Spielberg’s publicist for 42 years, was responsible for much more than body blocking the fifth estate (which he usually did with a gentlemanly grace). Mr. Spielberg […]
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Beginning next year, if you catch an American Airlines flight, you won’t have to pay to watch shows or movies, keep up with the latest news or endlessly scroll your social media feeds to pass the time. American Airlines will provide free high-speed Wi-Fi for its regular costumers on most flights, the company announced on […]
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About 22,000 employees at the Internal Revenue Service have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. The I.R.S. had about 100,000 employees before President Trump took office. Roughly 5,000 employees have resigned since January, […]
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The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was found to have illegally stifled competition in personal computer software. A Federal District Court judge said yes to forcing Microsoft to split in two, separating its monopoly Windows operating system from its […]
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In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because it was hard to build new apps and evaded questions about whether he was trying to snuff out competitive threats to his company. “Building a new app is hard,” […]
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President Trump threatened Harvard University’s tax-exempt status on Tuesday after the school rebuffed the administration’s demands aimed at purging “woke” ideology from America’s college campuses. The move escalated the feud between the Trump administration and Harvard, the nation’s richest as well as oldest university. “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed […]
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On Friday, amid a tariff-induced frenzy that drove hordes of consumers to panic-buy iPhones, President Trump announced a tariff exemption on electronics like smartphones and computers. For a moment, widespread anxiety about a potential $2,000 iPhone dissipated. But two days later, the Trump administration said smartphones and computers were likely to be hit with new […]
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Mohsen Mahdawi, organizador de manifestaciones propalestinas en la Universidad de Columbia el año pasado, fue detenido el lunes por funcionarios de migración tras llegar a una cita en Vermont que él pensaba era un paso para convertirse en ciudadano estadounidense, dijeron sus abogados. Horas después, la madre, la hermana mayor y los abogados de Mahdawi […]
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