U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.
December 24, 2025
How Much Water Does the A.I. Industry Use?
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, the hosts of “Hard Fork” at The New York Times, spoke with Andrew Marley, executive director for Effective Altruism DC, about how much water A.I. data centers use.
December 23, 2025
Is Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids a Good Idea?
On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss a new law in Australia barring kids under 16 from social media.
December 23, 2025
It’s a Hard Forkin’ Christmas!
The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton sing an original, tech-inspired rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”
December 23, 2025
Former Roomba C.E.O. Reminisces on 2008’s Viral ‘Shark Cat’ Meme
In conversation with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on the “Hard Fork” podcast, the former Roomba C.E.O. Colin Angle shares how YouTube’s viral shark cat brought him joy in 2008.
December 23, 2025
Google Buys Data Center Company for $4.75 Billion
The deal for Intersect, a data center and energy developer, is set to help Google build out its infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
December 22, 2025
She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.
The 29-year-old woman who created the “MyBoyfriendIsAI” community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.
December 22, 2025
Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?
A.I. chatbots have been designed to behave in a humanlike way. Some experts think that’s a terrible idea.
December 19, 2025
Sleep Cots and Graham Crackers at Elon Musk’s Child Care Program
Mr. Musk has ambitions to remake education, but his latest effort to open an elementary school in Texas appears to have faltered.
December 18, 2025
F.C.C. Chair Says Agency ‘Isn’t Independent,’ Breaking From Tradition
The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.
December 17, 2025
What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
A boundary-pushing array of new crypto ventures have reached the stock market, enticing investors and leading to more risk taking.
December 17, 2025
How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the A.I. Boom
The data centers used for work on artificial intelligence can cost tens of billions to build. Tech giants are finding ways to avoid being on the hook for some of those costs.
December 15, 2025
In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.
December 15, 2025
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.
December 13, 2025
Elon Musk Taunts Europe and Tests Willingness to Enforce Online Laws
Backed by White House officials, the tech billionaire has lashed out at the European Union after his social media platform X was fined last week.
December 12, 2025
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
December 11, 2025
Crypto Entrepreneur Who Caused 2022 Crash Is Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Do Kwon, who designed the virtual currencies Luna and TerraUSD, which plunged in 2022, had pleaded guilty to fraud.
December 11, 2025
Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?
A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.
December 11, 2025
Trump Puts Justice Dept. in Awkward Position on Warner Bros. Deal
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts pressure on his antitrust chief.
December 10, 2025
Does the Job of C.E.O. or Private Investor Come First? Intel’s Chief Is Juggling That Question.
Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.
December 10, 2025
Meta’s New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.
December 10, 2025
Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.
December 9, 2025
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.
December 8, 2025
The F.T.C. Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.
December 8, 2025
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.
December 7, 2025
It’s Not Just You. Users Struggle With the Instagram Repost Button.
The new repost option, sandwiched between comment and share, has led to consternation and accidental reposts by some users.
December 6, 2025
New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
December 5, 2025
Elon Musk’s X Hit With $140 Million Fine in Europe
The case over online transparency has become a point of contention between the European Union and the Trump administration.
December 5, 2025
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
December 4, 2025
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
December 4, 2025
A.I. Deal Making Is Getting Faster and Faster
Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done.
December 4, 2025
Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers
If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?
December 4, 2025
Anthropic C.E.O. Says A.I. Tech Is Solid but Enormous Spending Poses Risk
At this year’s DealBook Summit, the Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei told Andrew Ross Sorkin, DealBook editor at large, that the A.I. industry was taking on considerable risk as it spends hundreds of billions of dollars on the data centers powering its technology.
December 3, 2025
Those Sky-High Bitcoin Prices Everyone Said Were Here to Stay? They Left.
Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months, as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
December 3, 2025
Silicon Valley Builds Amazon and Gmail Copycats to Train A.I. Agents
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.
December 2, 2025
College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I.
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.
December 1, 2025
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.
November 30, 2025
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
November 27, 2025
David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
November 26, 2025
Take Command of Your Powerful New Smartphone Camera
This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features.
November 26, 2025
A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season
New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.
November 25, 2025
RealPage Agrees to Settle Federal Rent-Collusion Case
The Justice Department had accused the real estate software company of enabling landlords to charge tenants more than free-market rates.
November 25, 2025
How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling
OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.
November 23, 2025
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
November 23, 2025
The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.
November 21, 2025
The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.
November 20, 2025
Trump Elevates Once-Fringe Meme Makers to the Mainstream
Right-wing users have tapped A.I. tools to promote President Trump’s agenda. He took notice.
November 20, 2025
To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.
November 20, 2025
Yann LeCun, a Pioneering A.I. Scientist, Leaves Meta
Dr. LeCun’s departure follows a shake-up in Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts, as Mark Zuckerberg pushes his company to keep up in the tech race.
November 19, 2025
Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 65% to $31.9 Billion. Is It Enough for Wall St.?
The company, which makes the computer chips essential to the artificial intelligence boom, also said revenue in its recent quarter rose to $57 billion.
November 19, 2025
Saudi Arabia Backs Elon Musk’s xAI With Data Center Deal
Mr. Musk’s xAI will work with the Saudi artificial intelligence company Humain on a new data center, part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to diversify his kingdom’s economy.
November 19, 2025
Larry Summers Resigns From OpenAI’s Board
Mr. Summers departed the artificial intelligence company’s board after revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
November 19, 2025
How Trump and Nvidia’s C.E.O. Became Partners on the International Stage
Over the last 10 months, President Trump has become close with Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, as the company’s chips have become a tool in trade and peace talks.
November 19, 2025
Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.
November 19, 2025
In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
November 19, 2025
Technology Is Fast and the Courts Are Slow
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
November 19, 2025
Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.
November 18, 2025
Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules
Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.
November 18, 2025
Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.
November 18, 2025
Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready?
With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons.
November 18, 2025
Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech
European policymakers are crafting changes to scale back and simplify landmark rules for A.I. and data privacy, in a shift from an aggressive regulatory period.
November 17, 2025
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
November 17, 2025
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
The kiosks, which resemble conventional A.T.M.s and convert cash into virtual currencies, are increasingly under scrutiny as a tool for scammers.
November 17, 2025
The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.
November 17, 2025
How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker
Endorsements from The Stranger have become a must-have for some politicians, who know to bring snacks to their meetings with the paper’s writers.
November 14, 2025
Russian Humanoid Robot Falls on Its Face in Hyped Debut
The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues.
November 12, 2025
Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
November 10, 2025
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
November 7, 2025
OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances
The A.I. company faced pushback after a top executive raised the idea of government aid, amid concerns that the A.I. industry is headed toward a dangerous bubble.
November 6, 2025
Online, It’s Clear Who’s Responsible for the Shutdown: The Other Side
A blame game has played out on the internet and on television. President Trump has pulled out the stops.
November 6, 2025
Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?
Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices.
November 6, 2025
How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?
November 6, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Restructure Their Philanthropy
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.
November 6, 2025
IBM to Cut Thousands of Workers Amid A.I. Boom
The technology supplier said it was shifting its focus to higher-growth businesses, including A.I. consulting and software.
November 4, 2025
You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps.
Meet your artificial intelligence matchmakers. These A.I. tools are changing dating apps, so users don’t have to swipe through an endless scroll of profiles.
November 3, 2025
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit for the Social Network
Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself.
November 3, 2025
OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.
November 3, 2025
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
October 31, 2025
Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)
Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.
October 31, 2025
Meta Raises Its Spending Forecast on A.I. to Above $70 Billion
The Silicon Valley company projected more spending this year and said it would continue in 2026 as it hires A.I. researchers and builds data centers to power the technology.
October 29, 2025
Alphabet Revenue Jumps 16% With Strong Cloud Sales
Profits also rose, to just under $35 billion, as Google Search proved resilient to A.I. alternatives.
October 29, 2025
Nvidia Is Now Worth $5 Trillion as It Consolidates Power in A.I. Boom
The A.I. chip maker has become a linchpin in the Trump administration’s trade negotiations in Asia.
October 29, 2025
48 Hours Without A.I.
A.J. Jacobs went 48 hours without interacting with artificial intelligence. The experiment revealed just how embedded artificial intelligence already is in our daily lives.
October 29, 2025
Character.AI to Bar Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots
The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves.
October 29, 2025
OpenAI Restructures to Become a More Traditional For-Profit Company
The artificial intelligence company said the nonprofit that controlled the organization would receive a $130 billion stake in the new company.
October 28, 2025
Can a Start-Up Make Computer Chips Cheaper Than the Industry’s Giants?
Substrate, a San Francisco company, is trying to take on powerhouses like the Dutch company ASML.
October 28, 2025
Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia
The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday.
October 28, 2025
Amazon to Cut 14,000 White-Collar Jobs
The company is looking to slash costs by “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources” as it continues to spend aggressively on artificial intelligence.
October 27, 2025
Qualcomm Unveils New Line of Chips to Join the A.I. Boom
Qualcomm, which is known for its chips in smartphones, also announced a deal with Humain, a Saudi-backed A.I. company. The news sent Qualcomm’s share price soaring.
October 27, 2025
Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.
October 27, 2025
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.
October 26, 2025
Meta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.
October 23, 2025
Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance
Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.
October 23, 2025
Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Stealing Its Information
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
October 22, 2025
Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
October 22, 2025
Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs
The layoffs do not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The cuts were focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.
October 22, 2025
Who Needs a Printer or Scanner? Just Use Your Mobile Device.
Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.
October 22, 2025
OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence
The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
October 21, 2025
The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.
October 21, 2025
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
October 21, 2025
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.
October 20, 2025
How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?
October 20, 2025
Instagram Unveils Teen Safety Features for A.I. Chatbots
Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.
October 17, 2025
Renting a San Francisco Apartment in the A.I. Boom? Good Luck.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.
October 16, 2025
Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents
The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.
October 15, 2025
Instagram Will Limit Content for Teenagers Based on PG-13 Ratings
The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.
October 14, 2025
OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.
After signing multibillion-dollar agreements to use chips from Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI plans to deploy its own designs next year.
October 13, 2025
Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
October 13, 2025
What if SportsCenter and LinkedIn Merged?
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
October 11, 2025
Crypto Investor Known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Reaches Deal With Prosecutors
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
October 9, 2025
A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
October 9, 2025
Intel’s Big Bet: Inside the Chipmaker’s Make-or-Break Factory
The centerpiece of the company’s comeback hopes is a multibillion-dollar facility in the Arizona desert. Will it draw new customers?
October 9, 2025
A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes
Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.
October 9, 2025
U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
October 6, 2025
Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions
In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
October 6, 2025
OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
October 6, 2025
Forget Cowbells. Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now.
The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk.
October 5, 2025
OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
October 3, 2025
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion
With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held company, surpassing the rocket maker SpaceX.
October 2, 2025
OpenAI’s New Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.
October 2, 2025
We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work
A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.
October 2, 2025
Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
October 1, 2025
Uber Not Responsible for Sex Assault, Jury Finds, as More Cases Follow
The company is facing similar lawsuits in federal and state courts from people who claim their drivers sexually assaulted or harassed them.
October 1, 2025
What We Know About ChatGPT’s New Parental Controls
OpenAI said parents can set time and content limits on accounts and receive notifications if ChatGPT detects signs of potential self-harm.
September 30, 2025
Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
September 30, 2025
YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million
Mr. Trump had sued Alphabet, the parent of YouTube and Google, and other social media companies after the platforms suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
September 29, 2025
Read the document
The chairwoman of the House subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology and government innovation demanded information of Uber over its safety practices related to sexual assault.
September 29, 2025
California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law
Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
September 29, 2025
Trump Clears Way for American-Owned TikTok Valued at $14 Billion
The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese investors for a U.S. version of the app.
September 25, 2025
Microsoft Disables Some Services to Israel’s Defense Ministry
Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”
September 25, 2025
Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion to Settle Claims It Tricked Prime Customers
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
September 25, 2025
Elon Musk’s Chatbot Goes to Washington
The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok for a small fee.
September 25, 2025
Intel Said to Seek Investment From Apple
The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its finances as it looks to turn around its ailing business.
September 25, 2025
Brendan Carr Plans to Keep Going After the Media
While “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC on Tuesday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has promised to continue his campaign against what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.
September 24, 2025
How to Give Your Older Phone New Software Powers
Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own.
September 24, 2025
OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.
Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, the A.I. start-up will spend $400 billion over the next five years.
September 23, 2025
YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Related to the Pandemic and 2020 Election
The streaming platform unveiled its plan in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
September 23, 2025
Meta Ramps Up Spending on A.I. Politics With New Super PAC
The new PAC, which is the second that Meta has unveiled in the last month, is aimed at backing those in support of the artificial intelligence industry.
September 23, 2025
Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other
The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN and a piece of TikTok.
September 23, 2025
A $100,000 Per Worker Visa Fee Tips the Balance to Big Tech
Silicon Valley start-ups said they were concerned they would be disproportionately hurt by the new visa fee for skilled foreign workers, given their limited resources.
September 23, 2025
U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology Monopoly
The Justice Department argued that the best way to address the company’s unfair advantage was to force it to sell off portions of its business.
September 22, 2025
Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI
The chipmaker’s investment in the San Francisco start-up is an indication of the wild financial figures being tossed around in the world of artificial intelligence.
September 22, 2025
Did Amazon Trick Customers Into Prime? A Jury Will Decide.
A trial in federal court in Seattle will determine if millions of customers signed up for Prime because it’s a great deal, or because they were duped.
September 22, 2025
A Judge’s Decision Could Disrupt Google’s $3.1 Trillion Business
On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s advertising technology monopoly.
September 22, 2025
White House Outlines a TikTok Deal With a U.S. Board
A potential deal to reduce TikTok’s ties to China would give the app a new board with six American directors out of seven, the White House press secretary said.
September 20, 2025
Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses
Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a company that may struggle to deliver on its promise for the future of computing.
September 20, 2025
How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper
Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.
September 19, 2025
‘Peak SF’ on a Friday Night Is a Robot Fight
The artificial intelligence boom, which has brought techies flocking back to the city, has fueled a resurgence of live — and sometimes futuristic — events.
September 19, 2025
Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His A.I. Company
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.
September 18, 2025
The New AirPods Can Translate Languages in Your Ears. This Is Profound.
The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives.
September 18, 2025
Who Is Brendan Carr of the F.C.C.?
The F.C.C. chairman, who is in the spotlight for comments that may have led to the suspension of TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, has long criticized the media for what he called liberal bias.
September 18, 2025
Meta Unveils Smart Glasses With Apps and an Artificial Intelligence Assistant
At its annual developer conference on Wednesday, Meta showed several new smart glasses, which have been a surprise hit for the company.
September 18, 2025
Has Britain Gone Too Far With Its Digital Controls?
British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach.
September 17, 2025
Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again as a Deal Takes Shape
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.
September 16, 2025
Social Platforms Duck Blame for Inflaming Divisions Before Charlie Kirk’s Death
After authorities said Mr. Kirk’s suspected shooter had been “radicalized” online, Meta, Reddit, TikTok and other platforms have stayed quiet — though not Elon Musk, who owns X.
September 16, 2025
What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide.
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.
September 16, 2025
New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push Industry Agenda
The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry’s latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.
September 15, 2025
Trump Officials Say They Have a Deal to Avert a TikTok Ban. Will This One Stick?
Earlier efforts to find a new, non-Chinese owner for the popular video app fell apart. A federal law that cites national security issues requires TikTok owner ByteDance to sell it or face a ban.
September 15, 2025
Nvidia Broke Antitrust Law, China Says, as Tensions With U.S. Mount
Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia had violated antimonopoly regulations.
September 15, 2025
Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Democratic Party.
The youngest chair in the history of the Federal Trade Commission is campaigning for Zohran Mamdani and defending her brand of populism.
September 14, 2025
He Made a Friend on Roblox. Their Relationship Turned Sinister.
At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who blames Roblox.
September 12, 2025
‘Civil War’ Mentions Surge Online After Kirk Assassination
The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.
September 12, 2025
A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
September 12, 2025
OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization
The start-up reached a tentative deal with Microsoft, its biggest investor, and said it would give a $100 billion stake to the nonprofit that manages it.
September 11, 2025
With Few Facts About Kirk Shooting, Wild Speculation Abounds
Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.
September 11, 2025
Regulators Are Digging Into A.I. Chatbots and Child Safety
The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.
September 11, 2025
Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded With Bad Reviews
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.
September 11, 2025
Canadian Man Falsely Named as Charlie Kirk’s Shooter on Social Media
The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.
September 11, 2025
Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Shooting Spread Rapidly on Social Media
First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.
September 10, 2025
OpenAI Signs $300 Billion Data Center Pact With Tech Giant Oracle
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.
September 10, 2025
Senators Demand Answers From Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp Security
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
September 10, 2025
Why Mark S. Zuckerberg Is Suing Facebook’s Parent Company, Meta
Facebook has repeatedly flagged his accounts, he says, for “impersonating” the company’s founder, Mark E. Zuckerberg.
September 9, 2025
Apple Introduces New, Slimmer iPhone
The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.
September 9, 2025
United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Away A.I. Technology
The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
September 9, 2025
Nvidia Comes Out Swinging as Congress Weighs Limits on China Chip Sales
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
September 9, 2025
Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
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.
September 8, 2025
Tech Companies Show Off for Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’
Tech companies are displaying A.I., lasers and more as they compete for a piece of President Trump’s ambitious plan for a missile defense shield.
September 8, 2025
A Tech Reporter’s Side Gig: Music Writing
Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about bands.
September 8, 2025
A.I. Could Make the Smartphone Passé. What Comes Next?
As Apple prepares to release new iPhones this week, industry veterans shared their predictions for what will be the next big thing in personal computing.
September 8, 2025
The Spectacular Comeback Tour of a Crypto Convict
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.
September 7, 2025
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
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.
September 5, 2025
Can YouTube Handle Live Sports? The N.F.L. Is the Ultimate Test.
YouTube’s live broadcast on Friday night of the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers game is set to be a major test of the platform’s programming ambitions.
September 5, 2025
The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds
Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.
September 5, 2025
The Message for Big Tech in the Google Ruling: Play Nice, but Play On
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.
September 3, 2025
Amazon Pares Back Free Shipping Perk on Prime Membership
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.
September 3, 2025
What the Fixes for Google’s Search Monopoly Mean for You: It’s a ‘Nothingburger’
A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.
September 2, 2025
What a Ruling to Fix Google’s Search Monopoly Means for the Company
The judge’s decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption.
September 2, 2025
OpenAI Plans to Add Safeguards to ChatGPT for Teens and Others in Distress
After a California teenager spent months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life, OpenAI said it would introduce parental controls and better responses for users in distress.
September 2, 2025
Google Avoids Harshest Penalties in Landmark Search Monopoly Ruling
Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted.
September 2, 2025
Anthropic Raises Its Valuation to $183 Billion in New Funding
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.
September 2, 2025
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.
September 2, 2025
How ‘Clanker’ Became an Anti-A.I. Rallying Cry
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.
August 31, 2025
How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
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.
August 31, 2025
Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down
The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for its chips should continue this quarter.
August 27, 2025
Google Pixel 10 Pro Review: This A.I. Phone Can Save Time if You Surrender Your Data
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.
August 27, 2025
Fine-Tune Your Feed and Get News You Can Use
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.
August 27, 2025
Silicon Valley Pledges $200 Million to New Pro-A.I. Super PACs
The two PACs reflect a new level of political engagement by companies like Meta and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, which are spending heavily on artificial intelligence.
August 26, 2025
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
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.
August 26, 2025
Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI Over Claims It Is Being Shut Out
Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.
August 25, 2025
We Are Tech Privacy Reporters. Our Music Habits Got Doxxed.
The “Panama Playlists” exposed the Spotify listening habits of some famous people — and two journalists who didn’t know as much about protecting their privacy as they had thought.
August 24, 2025
The Long, Painful Downfall of Intel
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.
August 23, 2025
Elon Musk’s X Agrees to Settlements With Thousands of Former Employees
The settlements are an about-face for the billionaire, whose company fought with former workers over whether it owed them severance pay.
August 22, 2025
Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
August 22, 2025
Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment
Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.
August 21, 2025
Warren Brodey, 101, Dies; a Visionary at the Dawn of the Information Age
His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence.
August 20, 2025
OpenAI in Deal Talks That Would Value the Company at $500 Billion
At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.
August 19, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta’s A.I. Efforts, Again
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.
August 19, 2025
Britain Drops Request That Apple Create a Back Door
The Trump administration said law enforcement organizations in Britain would back off asking the company for a tool for access to customers’ data.
August 19, 2025
Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
Federal officials are considering the move because Intel, the last leading-edge chipmaker in the United States, has been struggling.
August 18, 2025
Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters
The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.
August 15, 2025
Senator Begins Child Safety Investigation Into Meta’s A.I. Bot
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.
August 15, 2025
SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes.
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.
August 15, 2025
Blood Oxygen Measurements to Return to Some Apple Watches
The company said it would issue a software update to restart the technology, which was caught up in a patent dispute.
August 14, 2025
Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry
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.
August 13, 2025
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI
The billionaire said in posts on X that the consumer tech giant was violating antitrust laws by giving preferential treatment to OpenAI on the App Store.
August 12, 2025
Crypto Entrepreneur Who Caused 2022 Market Crash Pleads Guilty to Fraud
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.
August 12, 2025
A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion
The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant.
August 12, 2025
Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era
Decades ago, designers etched microscopic doodles onto silicon chips to leave their marks. Now, techno-archaeologists search for the tiny fossils.
August 12, 2025
President Trump Calls Intel C.E.O. a ‘Success’ After Meeting
Just days after calling for the resignation of Intel chief, Lip-Bu Tan, over his ties to China, Mr. Trump changed his tune.
August 11, 2025
Meet the Intel C.E.O. in Trump’s Cross Hairs
Lip-Bu Tan took the reins of Intel in March. On Thursday, President Trump called for his resignation.
August 11, 2025
Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online
Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago.
August 11, 2025
U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China
In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.
August 10, 2025
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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.
August 10, 2025
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
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.
August 8, 2025
OpenAI Aims to Stay Ahead of Rivals With New GPT-5 Technology
The A.I. start-up said its new flagship technology was faster, more accurate and less likely to make stuff up.
August 7, 2025
Britain Forces Porn Sites to Get Serious on ‘Age-Gating’
The new measures have been widely embraced, but new age-verification methods have drawn some criticism because of privacy concerns.
August 7, 2025
Trump Threatens 100% Tariff on Chips, With a Big Caveat
The tariff would not apply to businesses that made a commitment to build and invest in the United States.
August 6, 2025
OpenAI to Give Away Some of the Technology That Powers ChatGPT
In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the technology with outside researchers and businesses.
August 5, 2025
The 20-Somethings Are Swarming San Francisco’s A.I. Boom
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.
August 4, 2025
The Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom
The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the home of companies like Meta and Google.
August 4, 2025
The Militarization of Silicon Valley
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
August 4, 2025
So Long to Tech’s Dream Job
It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
August 4, 2025
The Rise of Silicon Valley’s Techno-Religion
The Rationalists, a community focused on the risks of artificial intelligence, regularly gather with tech figures and other like-minded people in a complex that covers much of a city block.
August 4, 2025
Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era
Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”
August 4, 2025
This Start-Up’s $20 Billion Sale Died. It Came Fighting Back.
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.
July 31, 2025
Nvidia Chips Are Front and Center in China at Crucial Moment in the A.I. Race
Chinese companies showcased A.I. gains in Shanghai this week. More chips will only help them improve faster, industry insiders say.
July 31, 2025
A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like N.B.A. Stars.
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.
July 31, 2025
‘Superintelligence’ Will Create a New Era of Empowerment, Mark Zuckerberg Says
Mr. Zuckerberg made his comments about the hypothetical artificial intelligence as Meta posted a 36 percent quarterly increase in profit and a 22 percent jump in revenue.
July 30, 2025
Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.
July 30, 2025
White House Urges ‘Pro-Innovation Mind-Set’ to Crypto in New Report
In a 168-page report, the White House called on banking regulators, tax officials and U.S. lawmakers to implement policies that would advance the crypto industry’s agenda.
July 30, 2025
How to Put Your Phone in Vacation Mode
You can silence nonessential alerts and calls on your iPhone or Android device for later but still allow designated people and apps to reach you.
July 30, 2025
Intel Expects Work Force to Shrink by 25,000
The Silicon Valley chip company, which has been struggling, quantified the job cuts it is making as it seeks to turn its business around.
July 24, 2025
In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceX
China has made it a national priority to catch up with SpaceX’s nearly 8,000 Starlink internet-providing satellites in low-Earth orbit, which it regards as a military threat. Despite successes in other parts of its space program, China has just 124 internet-providing satellites in low-Earth orbit. Selam Gebrekidian, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains why China is lagging behind in this new space race.
July 24, 2025
The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here
Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, following a playbook that worked well against social media platforms.
July 23, 2025
Alphabet Reports 14% Increase in Second-Quarter Revenue
Google’s parent company, which is facing aggressive competition in its core search business from A.I. chatbots, also posted a double-digit profit increase.
July 23, 2025
Trump Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand
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.
July 23, 2025
Federal Prosecutors Close Inquiry Into Co-Founder of Kraken Crypto Exchange
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.
July 22, 2025
Google A.I. System Wins Gold Medal in International Math Olympiad
OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.
July 21, 2025
Tech’s Top Venture Firm Tried to Stay Above Politics. Then a Partner Created a Furor.
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.
July 19, 2025
How a Video Studio Embraced A.I. and Stormed the Internet
The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
July 18, 2025
Court Rules Trump’s Firing of F.T.C. Commissioner Was Illegal
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.
July 18, 2025
Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of First Major Bill
After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.
July 17, 2025
‘Crypto Week’ Is Back on Track After House G.O.P. Quells Conservative Revolt
The House is set to vote on a series of high-stakes bills backed by the cryptocurrency industry, after top Republicans brokered a deal with a group of dissenters in their ranks.
July 17, 2025
How Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Persuaded Trump to Sell A.I. Chips to China
With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got the administration to reverse course on restrictions.
July 17, 2025
How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones
Both operating systems introduce new designs, but the real story is what’s happening beneath with A.I.
July 17, 2025
The Bills That Could Change Crypto in The U.S.
There are multiple bills before the House that could redefine the way crypto is regulated in the U.S. Those in the crypto industry have been lobbying for the bills, which could lead to less oversight of the industry by the S.E.C. and to more widespread use of stablecoins. David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter for The New York Times, explains.
July 16, 2025
It Was Supposed to Be ‘Crypto Week’ in Congress. Then It Unraveled.
The crypto industry was headed for a landmark moment in the House with three bills that it helped push going to a vote. But a coalition of ultraconservative House Republicans staged a mutiny.
July 16, 2025
China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
July 16, 2025
Federal Prosecutors Close Inquiry Into Polymarket Betting Website
The site became prominent last year when people bet on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election.
July 15, 2025
Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
July 15, 2025
Nvidia Says U.S. Has Lifted Restrictions on A.I. Chip Sales to China
The Silicon Valley chip giant said the Trump administration, which had shut down its sales to China three months ago, had assured it that licenses for the sales would now be granted.
July 15, 2025
Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes
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.
July 14, 2025
Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
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.
July 14, 2025
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
July 14, 2025
Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says
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.
July 12, 2025
Google Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAI
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.
July 12, 2025
Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses
The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.
July 11, 2025
Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing?
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
July 11, 2025
Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
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.
July 10, 2025
A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
July 10, 2025
X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.
July 9, 2025
Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Shares Antisemitic Posts on X
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
July 9, 2025
Jeff Williams, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, Is Retiring After 27 Years
Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company’s next chief executive.
July 8, 2025
OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
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.
July 8, 2025
Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I.
You thought artificial intelligence was coming for your job? First, it’s coming for your job interviewer.
July 7, 2025
The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy
As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas.
July 6, 2025
YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.
July 5, 2025
Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees
The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.
July 2, 2025
How to Organize Your Digital Library
If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up.
July 2, 2025
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers
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.
July 1, 2025
How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
June 30, 2025
The Narrowing of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s Philanthropy
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.
June 28, 2025
:( Microsoft’s ‘Blue Screen of Death’ Is Going Away
The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one.
June 27, 2025
The A.I. Frenzy Is Escalating. Again.
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.
June 27, 2025
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race
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.”
June 27, 2025
Uber in Talks With Its Founder, Travis Kalanick, to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
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.
June 26, 2025
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
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.
June 26, 2025
Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.
June 25, 2025
At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
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.
June 24, 2025
Media Matters Sues F.T.C. Over Advertising Investigation
The liberal advocacy organization said in a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry into boycotts with other advertising groups was “retribution.”
June 23, 2025
The A.I. Race Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.
June 23, 2025
Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It
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.
June 20, 2025
Trump to Again Extend TikTok’s Reprieve From U.S. Ban
The president plans to sign another executive order this week that would give the popular video app more time to change its ownership structure.
June 18, 2025
Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts
Ten Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the tech company this week asking about its expanding contracts under the Trump administration.
June 17, 2025
The Trumps Promote a New Crypto Venture: Bitcoin Mining
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.
June 16, 2025
WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
June 16, 2025
Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.
June 13, 2025
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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.
June 13, 2025
Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab
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.
June 13, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 Review: Bigger and Better, for a Higher Price
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.
June 12, 2025
This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”
June 11, 2025
Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators
Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.
June 10, 2025
Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.
June 10, 2025
Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.
June 10, 2025
Waymo Limits Service in San Francisco as Immigration Protests Spread
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.
June 9, 2025
Meta in Talks to Invest Billions in Scale AI
Scale AI, an artificial intelligence start-up, has built a business by labeling and culling data to make it easier to use to train A.I. systems.
June 9, 2025
Apple’s New Software Focuses on Design Aesthetics Over A.I.
The company also introduced artificial intelligence in its devices in the opening presentation of a company conference.
June 9, 2025
YouTube Loosens Rules Guiding the Moderation of Videos
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.
June 9, 2025
Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
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.”
June 7, 2025
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
June 7, 2025
If Elon Musk and President Trump Divorce, Who Gets Silicon Valley?
The relationship between Mr. Trump and tech industry power brokers was built on money and the promise of deregulation, with Mr. Musk in the middle of it all.
June 6, 2025
Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Splitsville, Until They Aren’t
For all the insults that Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump traded on Thursday, don’t be surprised if they make up again days from now. In the meantime, they both benefit.
June 6, 2025
He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.
June 6, 2025
How the Maker of the ‘Most Complex Machine Humans Ever Created’ Is Navigating Trade Fights
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war.
June 5, 2025
Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegally Using Data From Its Site
In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement for data and had unjustly enriched itself at Reddit’s expense.
June 4, 2025
How to Research and Plan a Vacation, Right on Your Phone
Google Maps and Apple’s Maps app offer location-based directories and other tools for finding new places to explore, before or after you hit the road.
June 4, 2025
Is Trump Unveiling a Crypto Wallet? His Associates Say Yes. His Sons Say No.
The back-and-forth over a potential Trump cryptocurrency wallet on Tuesday exposed rifts among the family’s web of digital currency ventures.
June 3, 2025
Elon Musk Calls Trump Policy Bill a ‘Disgusting Abomination’
The tech executive criticized the president’s legislation in a series of posts on Tuesday, signaling a widening rift with Republicans.
June 3, 2025
F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
June 2, 2025
David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.
June 2, 2025
What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.
June 2, 2025
Fate of Google’s Search Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers during closing arguments on Friday about how future competition should factor into his decision, which is expected by August.
May 30, 2025
For Some Recent Graduates, the A.I. Job Apocalypse May Already Be Here
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with artificial intelligence.
May 30, 2025
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.
May 30, 2025
Energy Dept. Unveils Supercomputer That Merges With A.I.
The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.
May 29, 2025
Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution.
AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.
May 29, 2025
A.I. Chipmaker Nvidia’s Revenue Jumps 69% to $44.1 Billion
The company continued to grow fast in its most recent quarter despite new rules restricting the sale of A.I chips to China.
May 28, 2025
Texas Requires Apple and Google to Verify Ages for App Downloads
The state’s governor signed a new law that will give parents more control over the apps that minors download, part of a raft of new legislation.
May 27, 2025
Rape Charge Is Dropped Against Former Tech C.E.O. Dan Price
The owner of Gravity Payments became a prominent progressive figure on social media after raising the minimum pay at his company to $70,000.
May 27, 2025
Meta’s Fate Now Rests With a Judge
A landmark antitrust trial accusing the social media giant of cementing its dominance through acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp has concluded.
May 27, 2025
Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
Apple’s chief executive has gone from winning President Trump’s praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company’s woes in a very bad year.
May 26, 2025
Some Sneaky Fees Can No Longer Hide. But Watch Out for Others.
Resort fees, cleaning fees, service fees: Those charges now must be disclosed upfront. But the fight against “junk fees” is far from over.
May 25, 2025
Is Trump’s ‘Made in America’ iPhone a Fantasy?
Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.
May 23, 2025
Regulators Are Investigating Whether Media Matters Colluded With Advertisers
Elon Musk, who owns X, previously sued the liberal group over claims that it tried to damage his social media company’s relationship with advertisers.
May 22, 2025
OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive Data Centers in the U.A.E.
As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.
May 22, 2025
Here’s What Meta Argued to Fend Off Monopoly Claims in Landmark Trial
The social media company called only a handful of witnesses as it sought to prove it helped Instagram and WhatsApp after acquiring them.
May 21, 2025
Laurene Powell Jobs Lays Off 10% of Emerson Collective’s Staff
Ms. Powell Jobs has privately said her philanthropy needed to practice more austerity, according to people who heard her remarks.
May 21, 2025
OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices
OpenAI said it was buying IO, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.
May 21, 2025
Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
The tech giant is taking its next big step in artificial intelligence by adding interactive capabilities to its flagship product.
May 20, 2025
How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future
After initially banning artificial intelligence chatbots, schools are embracing the tools. Miami, the third-largest U.S. school district, shows how.
May 19, 2025
Apple’s A.I. Ambitions for China Provoke Washington’s Resistance
The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company’s artificial intelligence on iPhones.
May 17, 2025
Employee’s Change Caused xAI’s Chatbot to Veer Into South African Politics
Grok, the chatbot operated by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, was providing the responses about South Africa to unrelated questions.
May 16, 2025
OpenAI Unveils New Tool for Computer Programmers
The tool, Codex, will be able to handle multiple tasks at the same time, the company said. OpenAI is also in talks to acquire a coding tool called Windsurf for $3 billion.
May 16, 2025
Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon
The titans of the tech industry say artificial intelligence will soon match the powers of humans’ brains. Are they underestimating us?
May 16, 2025
Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat.
May 15, 2025
S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers
The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.
May 15, 2025
Terrorists Continue to Pay for Check Marks on X, Report Says
Elon Musk’s social media company has continued to accept payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the U.S., a nonprofit found.
May 15, 2025
What the Changes in Apple’s App Store Mean for iPhone Users
A federal judge created a path for app makers like Spotify and Patreon to avoid paying Apple hefty commissions. Is this a win for consumers? It’s complicated.
May 15, 2025
Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon
Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.
May 14, 2025
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.
May 14, 2025
At LAX Airport, Uber Drivers Wait. And Wait. And Wait.
One of the busiest airports in the world used to be a prime place for gig drivers to earn money. Now, it’s typical of their increasing desperation.
May 14, 2025
OpenAI in Talks to Acquire Windsurf, a Programming Tool, for $3 Billion
The deal could be a way for OpenAI to gain a foothold among programmers, who are rapidly embracing A.I. technologies.
May 13, 2025
A Crucial River Treaty Is Tangled in Trump’s Feud With Canada
Negotiations over the Columbia River basin could affect the environment in Canada and electrical generation and flood control in the United States.
May 13, 2025
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.
May 12, 2025
The Tech Guys Are Fighting. Literally.
Not content to battle it out in the boardroom, crypto bros, tech executives and start-up founders have embraced an old-fashioned version of masculinity.
May 11, 2025
Elon Musk, Henry Ford and the Rich Tradition of Rabble-Rousers
The Tesla billionaire is using his social media site X to rant and accuse. The politics of rage rarely worked out well for earlier moguls.
May 10, 2025
Google Agrees to Pay $1.4 Billion to Settle 2 Privacy Lawsuits
The Texas attorney general brought the cases in 2022 under state laws.
May 10, 2025
Pinterest Settles Lawsuit From Female ‘Co-Creator’ for $34.7 Million
Christine Martinez, who was a friend of two of Pinterest’s three co-founders, sued the company in 2021 for breach of implied contract and other claims.
May 9, 2025
U.S. v. Google: What Both Sides Argued in a Hearing to Fix Its Search Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google have wrapped up a three-week hearing that could have a major impact on the search giant and how people gather information online.
May 9, 2025
Your iPhone Apps Are Changing. Here’s How and Why.
A federal judge’s recent ruling has made it possible for apps to sell software and subscriptions outside the App Store without having to pay a commission.
May 9, 2025
How Apple Created a Legal Mess When It Skirted a Judge’s Ruling
Court documents show the company commissioned a sham report and lied on the stand to justify its actions, which will cast a shadow over future lawsuits.
May 9, 2025
The 2006 Zuckerberg Quote at the Center of Meta’s Antitrust Trial
“Facebook is about real connections to actual friends,” Mark Zuckerberg said. Here’s why that could be a problem for Meta.
May 9, 2025
New Funding Talks Could Value Elon Musk’s xAI at $120 Billion
The discussions follow those of rival OpenAI, which recently closed a funding round that valued it at $300 billion.
May 9, 2025
OpenAI Hires Instacart C.E.O. to Run Business and Operations
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said he hired Instacart’s Fidji Simo to join in a new role as chief executive of applications.
May 8, 2025
Uber Revenue Is Up 14%, Despite Economic Fears
The company also predicted that business in the current quarter would be stronger than Wall Street had predicted.
May 7, 2025
How to Use the A.I.-Powered Writing Tools on Your Phone
Artificial intelligence software — some already free on your device — can quickly compose and edit documents. But be sure to check its work.
May 7, 2025
Meta Awarded $167 Million in Damages From Israeli Cybersecurity Firm
Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others.
May 6, 2025
Elon Musk Tried Keeping Issues at His Texas Mansion Private, Emails Show
The tech billionaire’s staff was concerned that correspondence about his home in West Lake Hills would become public after neighbors complained.
May 6, 2025
OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control
The company will become a public benefit corporation and the nonprofit that has controlled it will be its largest shareholder.
May 5, 2025
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
May 5, 2025
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? No Thanks, Elon Musk.
Residents of an upscale enclave outside Austin, Texas, learned the hard way what it’s like when a multibillionaire moves into the mansion next door. Some of them have started a ruckus over it.
May 5, 2025
It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up.
Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
May 3, 2025
Could Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs Save Us From a Bot Apocalypse?
World, a start-up backed by Sam Altman, has launched in the United States with the goal of verifying your humanity.
May 3, 2025
Google Plans to Roll Out Its A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
May 2, 2025
U.S. Wants to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology
In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Department indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.
May 2, 2025
Apple Tops Wall Street’s Profit Expectations but Tariff Fears Still Loom
Tim Cook, the company’s C.E.O., said he expected $900 million in extra costs this quarter because of President Trump’s tariffs.
May 1, 2025
Why the A.I. Race Could Be Upended by a Judge’s Decision on Google
A landmark antitrust lawsuit about the past has turned into a fight about the future.
May 1, 2025
Could Apple Exist Without Its Ties to China? Probably Not.
The world’s most valuable company has become so reliant on Chinese suppliers and sales that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
May 1, 2025
Judge Rebukes Apple and Orders It to Loosen Grip on App Store
The ruling was a stinging defeat for Apple in a long-running antitrust case brought by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, on behalf of app developers.
May 1, 2025
Meta Says It Anticipates Continued Growth Despite Tariffs
The Silicon Valley company made the revenue projection as it reported a 35 percent rise in profit in the first quarter.
April 30, 2025
Microsoft Moderates A.I. Spending as Profit Increases 18%
The tech giant’s revenue also grew 13%, topping Wall Street’s expectations.
April 30, 2025
Google’s Chief Says Breakup Proposal Would Hobble Business
Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government’s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.
April 30, 2025
How to Secure Your Phone’s Data Before Traveling Abroad
Here are some best practices for safeguarding sensitive personal data.
April 30, 2025
Ex-School Athletic Director Gets 4 Months in Jail for Racist Deepfake Recording
Dazhon Darien, 32, who worked at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations.
April 29, 2025
Tether Was Accused of Fraud. Now It’s a Crypto Darling in Washington.
The prime example is Tether, a firm that regulators once targeted. Its chief executive recently hobnobbed in Washington with lawmakers and lobbyists.
April 29, 2025
Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences.
April 25, 2025
Alphabet Reports 12% Increase in Revenue
Google’s parent company, which is battling the government to stay intact after losing two antitrust cases, also said quarterly profit rose 46 percent.
April 24, 2025
Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.
Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.
April 24, 2025
If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
April 24, 2025
Chinese Manufacturers Make Appeals to Americans: Buy Direct
Videos on the social media app, filmed at factories in China, urge viewers to buy luxury goods directly, as tariffs drive up prices. Americans are receptive.
April 24, 2025
Trump Offers Private Dinner to Top 220 Investors in His Memecoin
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
April 23, 2025
YouTube Turns 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’
The video-streaming platform has revolutionized how we watch things. Here’s a timeline of its biggest moments.
April 23, 2025
Time-Saving New Phone Features You May Have Missed
From photo timers to music identifiers, here are a few new iPhone and Android tools to make your life easier.
April 23, 2025
Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law
The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.
April 23, 2025
At Meta’s Landmark Trial, a Stroll Through a Graveyard of Dead Apps
In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path, Orkut and Google Plus boomed.
April 23, 2025
At Trial, Instagram Co-Founder Says Meta Denied His Company Resources
Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat.
April 22, 2025
F.T.C. Sues Uber Over Billing for Its Premium Subscription Service
The suit is an indication that the commission’s close scrutiny of the tech industry will continue in the Trump administration.
April 21, 2025
U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google
The Justice Department said the best way to address the company’s monopoly in internet search was to force it to sell Chrome, among other measures.
April 21, 2025
News Is Blocked on Meta’s Feeds in Canada. Here’s What Fills the Void.
Hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages such as Canada Proud is thriving on Facebook as the election nears.
April 21, 2025
Will a Federal Judge Break Up Google?
On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s online search monopoly. The outcome could alter Google and Silicon Valley.
April 21, 2025
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.
April 18, 2025
Google Makes History With Rapid-Fire Antitrust Losses
Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
April 18, 2025
At Trial, Sheryl Sandberg Says Meta Nurtured Instagram and Did Not Stifle It
In her second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial over Meta’s power, Ms. Sandberg, the former chief operating officer, also said the company faced plenty of competition from TikTok.
April 17, 2025
Read the Ruling
Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act “by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the online technology ad industry, the court said.
April 17, 2025
Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules
It was the second time in a year that a U.S. court found that the company had acted illegally to remain dominant.
April 17, 2025
OpenAI Unveils Technology That Can ‘Reason’ With Images
The company also introduced a new tool that helps computer programmers use chatbots when writing code.
April 16, 2025
Washington Takes Aim at DeepSeek and Its American Chip Supplier, Nvidia
China’s success in artificial intelligence has the Trump administration and lawmakers weighing rules and investigations to slow Beijing’s progress in the industry.
April 16, 2025
At Meta Trial, Sheryl Sandberg Defends Tactics With Rivals
The former chief operating officer took the stand in a landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of quashing competition through acquisitions.
April 16, 2025
They Built a Business, and a Life, on Amazon. Tariffs Are Putting It at Risk.
An Illinois couple who sell party supplies on Amazon have been frantically trying to understand and adapt to new costs caused by President Trump’s tariffs.
April 16, 2025
Nvidia Says U.S. Will Restrict Sales of More of Its A.I. Chips to China
The restrictions are the first major limits the Trump administration has put on semiconductor sales outside the United States, toughening rules created by the Biden administration.
April 15, 2025
At Trial, Zuckerberg Defends Buying Instagram and WhatsApp
The Meta chief executive testified in a landmark antitrust trial that it was business as usual when he bought rival apps. He denied he was trying to snuff out competitors.
April 15, 2025
What History Can Teach Us About Breaking Up Giant Companies
For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
April 15, 2025
Why a Tariff-Inflated $2,000 iPhone Is Nothing to Fear
Even if gadget prices surge, we have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s phone model instead of the latest and greatest.
April 15, 2025
What Are Rare Earth Metals?
China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.
April 15, 2025
What if Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?
Meta’s antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals, hinges on unknowable alternate versions of Silicon Valley history.
April 14, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit
Mr. Zuckerberg went to court on Monday in a trial focused on his social media company’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The case could reshape Meta’s business.
April 14, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, Serial Witness, Takes the Hot Seat Again
Meta’s chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial that started Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
April 14, 2025
The Former C.I.A. Officer Capitalizing on Europe’s Military Spending Boom
Eric Slesinger made a career shift from the spy agency to venture capital, championing military start-ups as Europe beefed up its defenses amid an uncertain relationship with the United States.
April 14, 2025
This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
April 14, 2025
What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants
The Trump administration is continuing an aggressive effort to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies. Here’s what to know.
April 13, 2025
U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance
On Monday, Meta will face off against the federal government in a landmark antitrust trial over claims that it illegally quashed competition by buying Instagram and WhatsApp.
April 13, 2025
Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.
April 12, 2025
How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off
Federal lawmakers who benefited from crypto largess in the 2024 election are speedily advancing the industry’s agenda.
April 12, 2025
What’s Wrong With Apple?
Even before the threat of President Trump’s tariffs, there were questions about the company’s inability to make good on new ideas.
April 11, 2025
Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats
The company moved most of its manufacturing to Vietnam from China to avoid tariffs. But the unpredictability of President Trump’s plans has thrown Nintendo for a loop.
April 10, 2025
Cheaper iPhones and Pixels Are Here. They Are Pretty Good.
With tariffs threatening to drive up the costs of most things, the new entry-level phones from Apple and Google present a timely opportunity to save some bucks.
April 10, 2025
OpenAI Asks Court to Bar Elon Musk From Unfairly Attacking It
In a legal filing, OpenAI asked a federal court to hold Mr. Musk responsible for any damage he has caused the firm, in the latest sign of their bitter feud.
April 9, 2025
Pilot Sues Influencer on X in Latest Test of Defamation Law
Jo Ellis, a National Guard pilot, is suing an influencer who falsely identified her as the captain of a helicopter that collided with a passenger plane in January.
April 9, 2025
Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off.
With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.
April 8, 2025
How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
The future of the popular video app is now at the center of a geopolitical tussle between Washington and Beijing.
April 7, 2025
Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case
The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers’ union over the issue.
April 7, 2025
How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump
The social media platform has experienced a return in advertisers and new exposure as an official source of government news.
April 7, 2025
Can Using a Dumber Phone Cure ‘Brain Rot’?
Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.
April 6, 2025
The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.
April 5, 2025
How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies
These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back on public offering plans and bracing for pain.
April 4, 2025
Trump Extends Deadline for a TikTok Deal
The app was facing a Saturday deadline to change its ownership or face a ban in the United States.
April 4, 2025
Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Rattling Even Meta
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, would not seem to be in the line of fire from tariffs. But President Trump’s trade actions are hitting even social networking businesses.
April 4, 2025
Invasion of the Home Humanoid Robots
Dozens of companies are building robots that look like humans. One of them is training a machine to be a butler and will soon test them in homes.
April 4, 2025
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
European regulators are considering fining X and making demands for product changes, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
April 3, 2025
This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead
The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom.
April 3, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Trump to Settle Antitrust Suit Against Meta
The Meta chief, who was at the White House on Wednesday, has discussed the case with the president and his aides. A trial is set to start in less than two weeks.
April 2, 2025
Trump’s New Tariffs Test Apple’s Global Supply Chain
The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs. But now that may not matter.
April 2, 2025
How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul
The co-founder of Oracle and friend of President Trump, who was a flamboyant fixture in the 1990s, has returned to the spotlight through — of all things — TikTok.
April 2, 2025
Trump Set to Meet With Top Aides to Decide TikTok’s Fate
They are expected to convene on Wednesday to discuss a potential sale of the app, which faces a Saturday deadline to change its ownership structure.
April 2, 2025
OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $300 Billion
The start-up’s valuation, which has nearly doubled in six months, shows continued enthusiasm for A.I. among investors.
March 31, 2025
F.C.C. Chairman Orders Inquiry Into Disney’s D.E.I. Practices
The chairman, Brendan Carr, sent a letter to the company accusing it of violating equal employment opportunity regulations.
March 28, 2025
Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI
The deal combined two of Mr. Musk’s companies, which have been on different trajectories. The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, the billionaire said.
March 28, 2025
Look Again: That H&M Model Showing Off a New Look May Be a Digital Clone
The Swedish retailer H&M said it was exploring the use of artificial intelligence in producing “digital twins” of models.
March 28, 2025
CoreWeave Disappoints on Opening of Trading
The start-up, which provides the processing power to help develop A.I. systems, faces questions about its debt and the overall economy.
March 28, 2025
CoreWeave Scales Back Ambitions for Its I.P.O.
The company, which originally expected its shares to be priced between $47 and $55, will ask for $40 a share in a sign of stock market uncertainty.
March 28, 2025
The Two Democrats Trump Fired From the F.T.C. Sue Over Their Dismissals
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, who were fired from the agency this month, accused President Trump in a lawsuit of executive overreach.
March 27, 2025
Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family
A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
March 27, 2025
How Artificial Intelligence Reasons
Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.
March 26, 2025
If TikTok Is Here to Stay, What Does That Mean for Us?
With a national ban increasingly unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users and raises mental health concerns.
March 26, 2025
How Secure Is Signal, Anyway?
The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology.
March 25, 2025
OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator for ChatGPT
The company’s chatbot can now create elaborate and unusual images.
March 25, 2025
With a U.S. Ban Looming, TikTok Portrays Itself as a Force for Good
The popular video app, which could be banned in the United States next month if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner, is portraying itself as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses in a new campaign.
March 25, 2025
Trump’s Crypto Venture Introduces New Digital Currency
World Liberty Financial, the crypto business created by President Trump and his sons, unveiled a cryptocurrency called a stablecoin, furthering his ties to an industry his administration regulates.
March 25, 2025
Inside A.I.’s Super Bowl: Nvidia Dreams of a Robot Future
Nvidia showcased robots that could work in warehouses, pedal around like “Star Wars” droids and manipulate surgical equipment at its weeklong A.I. conference
March 25, 2025
Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules
After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.
March 24, 2025
Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program
The Netflix co-founder said he wanted his alma mater to become a leader in studying the consequences, and guiding beneficial uses, of artificial intelligence.
March 24, 2025
How Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements
That control is starting to fray as Mr. Johnson, a longevity guru known for performing experiments on his body, faces a backlash over the agreements.
March 21, 2025
Meet Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE
Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.
March 20, 2025
SoftBank to Buy Ampere, a Silicon Valley Chip Start-Up, for $6.5 Billion
The move is a bet that Ampere’s chips can begin playing a significant role in data centers for creating artificial intelligence.
March 19, 2025
E.U. Accuses Apple and Google of Unfair Practices, Risking Trump’s Ire
European Union regulators said the tech giants likely violated the law by unfairly boxing out smaller competitors, adding to tensions between Europe and the United States.
March 19, 2025
Tech for Babies Is Booming. Here’s What One Parent Found Helped the Most.
The Snoo. The Nanit. The Hatch Rest. Many lists of baby gear mandate certain items, but our columnist wondered if it would be better to chuck those lists out.
March 19, 2025
‘Will I Lose My Job?’ Federal Workers Flock to Reddit for Answers.
The online forum’s pseudonymity lets them vent, share information and find solace. Unpaid moderators, like David Carson, are working overtime to keep up.
March 19, 2025
Oracle’s Role in TikTok’s Future Gets Capitol Hill Scrutiny
Top congressional aides met with Oracle on Tuesday to talk about TikTok, which faces a ban in the United States unless it is sold to a non-Chinese owner by early April.
March 19, 2025
Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission
The decision to fire the two members of the traditionally independent regulatory body is likely to face a legal challenge.
March 18, 2025
Google Seals $32 Billion Deal for Cyber Start-Up Wiz
The acquisition could make the Silicon Valley giant a bigger force in cybersecurity, and arrives months after an earlier round of talks collapsed.
March 18, 2025
Nvidia Is Hosting the Super Bowl of A.I.
The giant chipmaker has transformed its annual developer conference from an academic event into a who’s who gathering for the future of artificial intelligence.
March 18, 2025
The Company Testing Wall Street’s Appetite for A.I. Computing Power
CoreWeave, which provides computing power for A.I., was founded by three Bitcoin enthusiasts. The company is now set to make the first prominent A.I. initial public offering.
March 18, 2025
How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the human brain.
March 17, 2025
Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
March 14, 2025
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
March 14, 2025
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
March 13, 2025
Intel Names New Chief Executive Amid Turnaround Efforts
The semiconductor pioneer appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a well-known tech investor and executive, as its new leader.
March 12, 2025
How to Spend Less Time on Social Media (or Leave It Altogether)
If you’re feeling overwhelmed but don’t quite have the willpower to curb your online habit, your phone can help you manage your time online.
March 12, 2025
Inside Google’s Investment in the A.I. Start-Up Anthropic
The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
March 11, 2025
Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space, a Rocket Start-Up, as C.E.O.
The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and to reach Mars.
March 10, 2025
Bad Day for X and Tesla Prompts Concern About Musk’s Distractions
The billionaire’s social media site X suffered outages, and Tesla’s stock tanked on Monday.
March 10, 2025
The Quest for A.I. ‘Scientific Superintelligence’
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
March 10, 2025
Trump’s Call to Scrap ‘Horrible’ Chip Program Spreads Panic
The president’s attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration’s industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
March 10, 2025
Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google
In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory pressure on the search giant.
March 7, 2025
At Crypto Summit, Trump Says U.S. Will Be ‘the Bitcoin Superpower’
The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives showcased the president’s embrace of the once-renegade industry.
March 7, 2025
Figma in Talks With Bankers to Explore an I.P.O. This Year
The design tech company is exploring a public offering after regulators stymied its $20 billion sale to the software giant Adobe in 2023.
March 7, 2025
Sam Bankman-Fried Ramps Up Effort for a Pardon From Trump
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
March 7, 2025
Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’
The first-of-its-kind reserve will be anchored by a stash of Bitcoin the government already owns, estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
March 7, 2025
StubHub Eyes Potential I.P.O. as Soon as This Year
The ticket reselling site joins the social chat app Discord and the artificial intelligence company CoreWeave in pursuing a public offering.
March 6, 2025
How Dan Bongino Would Run the F.B.I., According to Dan Bongino
The newly appointed deputy director of the F.B.I. has a long history of criticizing the bureau and its leadership. He has promised “dramatic change.”
March 6, 2025
A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media
Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.
March 6, 2025
How the Biggest Crypto Heist in History Went Down
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit lost $1.5 billion to North Korean hackers last month — and it all traced back to an account on a free digital storage service.
March 6, 2025
Federal Grant Program Opens Door to Elon Musk’s Starlink
Under new rules from President Trump’s Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.
March 6, 2025
Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.
The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users.
March 5, 2025
Digg Returns, With Social Media in Tumult
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
March 5, 2025
Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
March 5, 2025
Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan
The court said that Elon Musk could proceed with other parts of a lawsuit he brought against OpenAI last year.
March 5, 2025
A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Closes Deal That Values It at $61.5 Billion
The announcement follows new fund-raising efforts from rivals like OpenAI, which is set to close a deal that values the company at $300 billion, and Elon Musk’s xAI.
March 3, 2025
TSMC, the Chip Giant, Is to Spend $100 Billion in U.S. Over the Next 4 Years
The investment plan, announced at the White House, was made as the Trump administration pushes to bring chip making back to the United States.
March 3, 2025
Elon Musk’s Internet: So Based, Much Wow. So Cringe?
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
March 2, 2025