Tech
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Disneyland implements facial recognition to keep the lines moving, but guests say they didn’t know it was optional
If you want to visit the “Happiest Place on Earth,” you’ll go through a new gatekeeper first: facial recognition. The Anaheim resort has expanded facial-recognition technology at entrances to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure after months of limited testing, reads Disney’s privacy notice, in which the company states the intention is to make reentry easier…
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A 160-year-old paradox explains why AI will create more lawyers and accountants—not fewer, top economist says
In 1865, English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that the invention of the Watt steam engine — which improved the efficiency of the coal-fired steam engine — made coal a more effective energy source. Jevons called it “a confusion of ideas” to assume the efficiency born from this invention would reduce coal consumption. That efficiency…
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Tech is in turmoil—but the rest of corporate America isn’t. One Silicon Valley CEO knows why
Tech layoffs tied to AI are dominating headlines. Coders are being displaced by agents. Software headcount is shrinking. The message from Silicon Valley is that AI is restructuring the workforce in real time—and that the rest of corporate America should brace for the same. Box CEO Aaron Levie has a message back: not so fast.…
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OpenAI’s bad week misses the point, says tech analyst Gene Munster: ‘I think this is a true story—it is an example of over-analyzing’
Sam Altman is having a pretty bad week, and it’s only Tuesday. On Monday, jurors were quickly seated in Oakland for his ‘hero,’ Elon Musk’s, $130 billion trial against him. Monday night, a fresh Wall Street Journal report knocked him down further, describing internal turmoil at OpenAI—slowing user growth, leading to missed revenue goals, leading…
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Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and image to save from potential AI misuse
Taylor Swift filed three new trademark applications with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, a move one legal expert theorizes it is to protect her voice and image from potential misuse through artificial intelligence. Two of the applications filed Friday are sound trademarks covering her voice, one of her saying “Hey, it’s Taylor Swift,” and…
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‘He wanted to be CEO’: Early OpenAI VC Vinod Khosla says Elon Musk’s bid for control led to the Sam Altman feud and his major investment
When Vinod Khosla sat down with Fortune‘s Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell in early March, he offered some key context for one of the most consequential tech trials in American history: Musk vs. Altman. “He wanted to be CEO,” Khosla said of Elon Musk on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. He explained the context around…
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Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams last year, 8 times more than in 2020. Facebook alone cost users more than texts and emails combined
The cardinal rule of the Internet is that if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Unfortunately, some still haven’t learned that lesson—and it clearly hasn’t stopped some of us from falling into traps, especially on social media. Nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam in 2025 said…
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Exclusive: AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Paddy Lambros spent two and a half years advising roughly 100 European startups on hiring at the London-based venture capital firm Atomico. During that time, he kept coming back to the same observation: nearly every business problem at a young company could be traced to a hiring decision. “It was either not having the right…
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I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
One of the better aspects of being a journalist—aside from the long hours, the bitter emails and Slack messages, and the wording and rewording of a simple phrase to ensure it reads just right—is the ability to spend time tinkering with things. For the past month, I’ve been tinkering with Dispatch, a new feature from…
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Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian town where OpenAI failed to alert police about a mass shooter
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote a letter publicly apologizing to residents of the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge after the company failed to alert local authorities about a person who allegedly killed eight people in the town earlier this year. On Feb. 10, an 18-year-old suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, allegedly killed her mother and stepbrother…