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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Whether we're fact-checking the tales told by hardened criminals, the stories toddlers tell about stolen cookies, or the promises of politicians, the search for reliable ways to sniff out the “truth” ...

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 ...