This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. What are AI agents? When ChatGPT was first released, everyone ...

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I recently wrote about how difficult it is to know which technologies on the horizon will turn into genuine privacy nightmares and which remain menacing but distant threats. One group of technologies ...

A federal court in Massachusetts just dismissed a proposed class action challenging an employer’s use of an AI-powered video interview platform under the state’s strict lie detector law – but the ...