Category: Technology

As President Trump extended for a fourth time a deadline to determine TikTok’s future in the United States, details of an agreement to address concerns about the app began to emerge.

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI plan to spend at least $325 billion by the end of the year in pursuit of A.I. We explain why they’re doing it.

Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia had violated antimonopoly regulations.

“There’s only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”

“The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord,” a user said of the platform popular with video gamers, where tens of thousands are debating the nation’s future.

The youngest chair in the history of the Federal Trade Commission is campaigning for Zohran Mamdani and defending her brand of populism.

The projects would allow small electric or hybrid aircraft to carry passengers or cargo before federal regulators approve their commercial use.

Electric vehicles on the used market often cost less than comparable gasoline models, making the technology affordable to many more buyers.

Robyn Denholm, normally media shy, is campaigning to get shareholders to back the chief executive’s trillion-dollar compensation package.

The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.

Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.

The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.

The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to build in the U.S. over the next several years.

The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.

The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.

ASML, the Dutch maker of semiconductor equipment, is investing about $1.5 billion in Mistral, the French A.I. start-up.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, the former head of security for the messaging app accused the social media company of putting billions of users at risk. Meta pushed back on his claim.

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.

Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.

He and a partner made their co-working locations feel like private clubs. Among his other ventures, he sought to slash the cost of in vitro fertilization by using robotics and A.I.

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.

A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.

“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.

The e-commerce giant is ending a program that let Prime members share free shipping with a family member who lives somewhere else. Here’s what to know.

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.

The artificial intelligence start-up garnered another $13 billion as its valuation rose by nearly three times, from $61.5 billion earlier this year, amid a frenzy over the technology.

The trillions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into new data centers are starting to show up in economic growth. For now, at least.

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.

Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn.

The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real frustrations with technology, has become a go-to slur against artificial intelligence and robots.

It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.

Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.

“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”

Electric models from the luxury car brand have been very successful, but they may struggle once a $7,500 federal tax credit ends next month.

Apps from Google, Apple and other companies let you customize your content so you’re always up to date on the matters you care about most.

The new artificially intelligent Pixel can help people streamline certain tasks. But that efficiency may not be worth the data you give up, our reviewer writes.

The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for its chips should continue this quarter.

More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.

After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket splashed down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night.

The White House suggested that countries with digital regulations restricting U.S. tech companies could face penalties. The question is whether Europe can stand firm.

Weather interfered on Monday night with the ability of Elon Musk’s company to show it could overcome setbacks faced by its Starship prototype.

Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.

Elon Musk’s company will reschedule the next trip of its Starship prototype, which faced setbacks in its last three flight attempts.

A clever leak exposed the music habits of some famous people — and two Times journalists.

FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.

The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s journey from icon to a government project, with the sale of a 10 percent stake to the Trump administration, underlines how even the mightiest in tech can fall.

The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.

The company is winding down production of an earlier chip it sold Chinese companies. Jensen Huang, the chief executive, said the new chip would be for A.I. data centers.

Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was regularly subjected to humiliation and abuse on Kick, a streaming platform.

In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary idea: to create a place where women could find a work-life balance.

His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence.

At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.

Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The Trump administration says that law enforcement organizations in Britain would back off asking the company for a tool to access customers’ data.

The prices of used electric cars have fallen sharply in recent months, making them a more attractive option.

New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.

Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.

Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents.

The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.

“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”

A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

On TikTok Live, workers stream video of themselves doing manual labor, providing glimpses of the human effort that powers our world.

The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.

President Trump has become the semiconductor sector’s leading decision maker, from new fees on exports to China to a brief demand for a C.E.O.’s firing.

Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, capping a spectacular fall from grace.

Decades ago, designers etched microscopic doodles onto silicon chips to leave their marks. Now, techno-archaeologists search for the tiny fossils.

Just days after calling for the resignation of Intel chief, Lip-Bu Tan, over his ties to China, Mr. Trump changed his tune.

The market for the clean-burning fuel remains nascent, costs are rising, and Congress just put a lucrative tax credit out of reach for many companies.

The company said the service, synonymous with the early days of the internet, will be discontinued on Sept. 30.

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Overuse of digital gadgets harms teenagers, research suggests. But ubiquitous technology may be helping older Americans stay sharp.

The service rolled out this week, prompting confusion and safety concerns. Meta, which owns Instagram, said the feature was turned off unless users activated it.

Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

“Sam Altman in his remarks said that this is a major upgrade,” but he also said that “we’re not at A.G.I. yet.”

The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation utilities paid to owners of home solar systems for the electricity they sent to the grid.

The new measures have been widely embraced, but new age-verification methods have drawn some criticism because of privacy concerns.

Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical challenges.

The pledge was a “significant acceleration” of the company’s plan for more production in the United States, according to a White House statement.

In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the technology with outside researchers and businesses.

Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college. They all say they could not afford to wait to build their own artificial intelligence start-ups.

The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the home of companies like Meta and Google.

It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.

“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.

The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing to block WhatsApp and Telegram.

Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.

The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2 billion this year.

A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.

Figma, which makes a design platform, was on the verge of a big payday before regulators quashed the sale. On Thursday, it went public, with its stock ending the day up 250 percent.

Chinese companies showcased A.I. gains in Shanghai this week. More chips will only help them improve faster, industry insiders say.

The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security.

Apps promising to swiftly ease jet lag have proliferated. We traveled to the other side of the globe and back to see if they made a difference for a long-haul journey.

A new Earth-observing satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, will be sent into orbit on Wednesday.

Although the aerospace company lost money in the second quarter, it built and sold more planes as it recovered from quality crises and a workers strike.

Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.

Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research.

His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more.

With executive orders and an “A.I. Action Plan” to promote American dominance of the technology, President Trump declared that the United States needed to win the A.I. race.

A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.

Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, following a playbook that worked well against social media platforms.

Meta said political advertising would end in October, citing a forthcoming E.U. regulation that it said presented “unworkable requirements.”

“Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”

The Silicon Valley chip company, which has been struggling, quantified the job cuts it is making as it seeks to turn its business around.

In the Biden era, the government feared AI models would guide the spread of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. President Trump signed an order on “Preventing Woke A.I. in the Federal Government.”

In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.

The F.B.I. had raided the home of Jesse Powell in 2023 as part of an investigation into claims that he hacked into the online accounts of a nonprofit.

The technology giant had accused the British mogul, who died last year when his yacht sank, of fraud in the sale of his company in 2011.

The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla’s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.

After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.

Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.

Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

A federal judge said Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whom President Trump fired from the Federal Trade Commission in March, was still a “rightful member” of the agency.

Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.

The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.

“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring to itself as MechaHitler.”

Trump administration officials say winning the artificial intelligence race with China is a top priority.

Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.

The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.

The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of the grid as demand for electricity increases.

The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.

In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.

A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.

The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.

Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.

Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.

The industry’s courtship of Donald J. Trump resulted in one of the great lobbying free-for-alls in recent Washington history.

A person or people imitating the secretary of state used artificial intelligence to send text and voice messages to foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, the department said in a cable to employees.

The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.

Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.

Airlines and governments around the world have tightened restrictions on the devices after a series of accidents. The ban in China has caught some travelers off guard.

The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.

As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas.

A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.

More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.

To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.

The company has devoted resources to autonomous driving rather than developing new models to attract car buyers.

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.

If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up.

All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.

India is carving out a new space for Foxconn and other high-end manufacturers, just as President Trump demands American companies do at home.

Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.

Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

A reporter who writes about A.I. finds her work is catching on — with the Chatbot she often writes about.

A reporter who writes about A.I. finds her work is catching on — with the Chatbot she often writes about.

The over-the-top party in the photogenic Italian city mixed Hollywood, Silicon Valley and political overtones.

The tech titan and his wife once had sprawling ambitions for their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Now their efforts in politics, education and housing have been cut back to focus on science.

The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one.

The 9-year-old from Vietnam was abused by her mother for customers watching on smartphone apps in the U.S. and elsewhere. The mother said she needed the money.

The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as the robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.

Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.

Sponsored by governments but ferried by a private company, astronauts from Hungary, India and Poland are going to the space station for the first time.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

The liberal advocacy organization said in a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry into boycotts with other advertising groups was “retribution.”

Ford Motor said it would open a new plant in Michigan that could become ineligible for federal incentives under a policy bill championed by President Trump and passed by the House.

“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”

The vehicles will have safety monitors and may not operate in bad weather, making them more restricted than the fully autonomous vehicles promised by Elon Musk.

Mr. Musk says the driverless taxis could begin ferrying passengers on Sunday in Austin, Texas, where other companies already have similar cars on the road.

Automakers and car buyers are taking a second, harder look at hybrids after leaving them behind for electric vehicles.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.

Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy.

TikTok executives hosted happy hours and played pickleball with influencers on the French Riviera this week, even as a U.S. ban loomed over the company.

When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.

BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.

Ten Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the tech company this week asking about its expanding contracts under the Trump administration.

Has A.I. become a part of your daily work routines? We want to know.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

The debut of American Bitcoin, a mining firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has heightened the ethical concerns swirling around the Trump presidency.

For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.

Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.

“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”

It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more likely to work — and not just for Teslas.

The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.

The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.

Anger at PJM, which manages the electrical grid in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, has been boiling over in some state capitals.

President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week. Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest in repairing the relationship with his former adviser.

His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.

Broadway’s best musical winner had to delay its opening last fall and was selling poorly. But strong word-of-mouth and reviews helped this quirky show triumph.

The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.

The company also introduced artificial intelligence features with its devices.

Mr. Musk’s Starlink has brought the internet to some of South America’s most remote places. But Bolivia is shunning it, even as many there are desperate for better service.

The New York Times studied videos of addresses posted online, including those by President Trump, Kermit the Frog and a slew of celebrity speakers. Here is a look at key themes that emerged.

A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.”

Already suffering from steep declines in sales and profit, the carmaker could now face the president’s wrath.

The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that had been “hallucinated” by artificial intelligence tools.

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.