After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.
In the week after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Twitter suspended some 70,000 accounts associated with the right-wing QAnon radicalized movement, citing their role...
AI video start-ups race ahead as Big Tech competition looms
SAN FRANCISCO — AI video-generation start-up Pika raised $80 million as venture capital investors continue to pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence start-ups...
Current and former AI employees warn of the technology’s dangers
A handful of current and former employees at prominent artificial intelligence companies warned the technology poses grave risks to humanity in a Tuesday letter,...
New heroes of spaceflight: Not the astronauts but the software nerds
The robotic spacecraft was spinning wildly. The first mission of Trevor Bennett’s spunky space start-up seemed doomed. But then Bennett, co-founder of Starfish Space,...
News site editor’s ties to Iran, Russia show misinformation’s complexity
Recently unearthed documents reveal that leaders of an online news site aimed at Americans have received money from both Russian and Iranian government media...