Wednesday, March 18, 2026

AI in Business

Meta’s future looks a lot like Elon Musk’s X

"The meta has always been home to Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation," says Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool...

Social media users AI isn’t always a completely stupid idea

Last week, Meta caused a stir when it announced that it intended to populate its platform with a significant number of completely artificial users...

No fact checking and more hate speech: Meta Goes MAGA

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries engaged in an inappropriate groveling fest, causing pilgrimage to...

Meta Now Allows Users to Say Gay and Transgender People Suffer from ‘Mental Illness’

The updates similarly maintain a number of older restrictions that Meta has had in place for years. The current version of the policy maintains...

Meta’s fact-checking partners say they were “blindsided” by the decision to ax them

Meta's fact-checking partners say they were "blindsided" by the company's decision ditch third party fact checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in favor of...

Meta abandons fact-checkers ahead of Trump’s second term

Meta announced Tuesday that it is ditching third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with the...

Europe wanted to lead the world in electric vehicles. Car manufacturers can’t keep up

As sales and production of electric vehicles in Europe lag behind, a blame game has emerged between carmakers and policymakers. “A regulatory framework that...

Nvidia’s $3,000 ‘personal AI supercomputer’ will let you ditch the data center

Nvidia already sells tons of computer chips to every major company that creates its own artificial intelligence models. But now, with public interest in...