Technology Why Tesla's woes signal trouble for the electric car industry Last week, electric car company Tesla announced a massive recall impacting over 2 million cars. The recall comes at a time when other aspects of electric vehicle maintenance are under scrutiny. Libby Denkmann Sarah Leibovitz
National Technology to stop drunk drivers could be coming to every new car in the nation Federal regulators have taken a first step toward making technology that prevents drunk driving standard in new cars. Their goal is to help end a problem that claimed more than 13,000 lives last year. Joe Hernandez
Technology Tesla recalls over 2 million vehicles to fix defective Autopilot monitoring system The recall comes after a two-year investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration into a series of crashes — some deadly — that happened while the Autopilot system was in use. The Associated Press
Technology Elon Musk allows controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back on X Jones has been banned from most major social media platforms for spreading falsehoods, like saying school shootings are faked, and that survivors and parents of slain children are crisis actors. D. Parvaz
Technology We made ChatGPT write a song for us We kept hearing that Artificial Intelligence is a threat to the creative arts. So we put ChatGPT to the test to see if it can, indeed, write a decent song. Ayesha Rascoe Stephen Thompson
Technology Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules The deal paves the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and has spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity. The Associated Press
National High-speed rail projects get a $6 billion infusion of federal infrastructure money The White House hopes to jumpstart high-speed rail in the U.S. with money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Much of the funding announced this week will go to projects in Nevada and California. Joel Rose
National Slow down! As deaths and injuries mount, new calls for technology to reduce speeding Safety advocates want all cars to come with technology that can tell drivers when they're speeding — or even force them to slow down. But the auto industry is not rushing to embrace it. Joel Rose
Technology Here are the 25 most-viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2023 English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. The Associated Press
Technology Disinformation researcher says Harvard pushed her out to protect Meta Joan Donovan accused Harvard of violating her free speech rights and the school's own commitment to academic freedom in an attempt to protect its relationship with the tech company and its executives. Shannon Bond
