Podrían pasar años antes de que la nueva ola de asistentes de inteligencia artificial se usen cotidianamente, porque solucionan problemas pero presentan nuevos.
Tech giants are building power-hungry data centers to run their artificial intelligence tools. The costs of that demand surge are becoming clearer.
The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
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We must be able to create a more civic-minded internet, with tools that would empower users to better control what they see.
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.
Judge Amit P. Mehta must now decide whether Google violated the law, potentially setting a precedent for a series of tech monopoly cases.
Hundreds of marketers and ad agency types flocked to TikTok’s annual sales presentation after a new law put its future in question.
Plus, the shadow over the Kentucky Derby.
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
La empresa anunció una nueva categoría de estancias extravagantes en colaboración con marcas y famosos, aprovechando el éxito de algunas como la casa de Barbie Malibú.
Federal prosecutors said the woman from Shirley, N.Y., was not licensed to administer medication and was selling drugs brought from abroad that were not authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.
The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.
Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.
A software company announced it had teamed up with the arcade and restaurant chain to allow betting in the future through the Dave & Buster’s app.
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and commerce.
Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.
Las pequeñas empresas se juegan miles de millones de dólares para competir con empresas como Microsoft y Google. Y puede que ni siquiera eso sea suficiente.
The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
Los hallazgos de un estudio de Oxford cuestionan el efecto de los servicios de salud mental para empleados.
Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.
The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, had pleaded guilty to a money-laundering violation.
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.
Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data.
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
U.S. lawmakers have long worried that the Chinese government could use the app to spread propaganda.
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.
With its TikTok bill, Congress sent a message to the world: You cannot disregard basic internet norms and expect to be treated like any other country.
Los expertos en seguridad de IA de la empresa advirtieron sobre algunos riesgos en tales herramientas. Las funciones se están evaluando.
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
A pesar de la esperanza de Mark Zuckerberg de que el chatbot sea el más inteligente hasta la fecha, este tiene problemas con los datos, los números y las búsquedas en la web.
During Richard Cordray’s tenure at the agency, the botched rollout of the new FAFSA upended the college admissions process.
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The app’s influence on Hollywood, school and more.
The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
Plus, new airline refund rules.
Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.
ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay.
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
Después de que Biden firme el proyecto de ley para forzar la venta de la aplicación o prohibirla, la legislación se enfrentará a desafíos judiciales, a la escasez de compradores y a la hostilidad del gobierno chino.
The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp continued to grow, even as it said it would spend billions of dollars more on artificial intelligence.
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.
Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.
Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
Screens in K-12 schools need ‘a hard reset.’
The Senate has finally passed a law that could bar the video-sharing app in the U.S., leaving some tech giants in pole position to profit — or pounce.
A bill that will force the app’s Chinese owners to sell will soon become law.
Plus, clashes over Donald Trump’s gag order.
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?
A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family’s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.
After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.
La red social ha superado a la competencia sobre todo porque sus rivales han flaqueado. En marzo, registró 1,5 millones de visitantes únicos en Estados Unidos. La popularidad no asegura que sea rentable.
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.
Even through the Myanmar army’s communications blackout, residents of a conflict zone find moments of grace, and occasional connectivity, away from the battlefield.
The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.
Instagram está probando un programa que ofrece a sus principales influentes la posibilidad de interactuar con sus seguidores a través de mensajes directos utilizando un chatbot.
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.
Pinduoduo appeals to people seeking deals and “downgraded spending,” as consumer purchasing in China has slowed recently amid economic rockiness.
To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.
How internet shopping became choked with junk.
Hay empresas tecnológicas que invierten en decodificar datos neurales para registrar lo que piensa y siente una persona. El estado de Colorado busca proteger esa información privada.
For 12 years, the MTV reality series “Catfish” has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.
A number of new tech companies want to solve the opioid crisis with algorithms. It’s a flawed and potentially harmful proposition.
No es tan difícil guardar copias de tus fotos, videos y otros archivos de tu teléfono en un lugar seguro. Solo sigue estos pasos en caso de emergencia.
Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.
Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation.
Los aficionados al bitcóin esperan que la reducción programada del número de nuevas monedas en circulación haga que el precio de la criptomoneda se dispare.
Grupos defensores de los derechos digitales en todo el mundo cuestionan cómo las medidas contra TikTok contradicen los argumentos de Estados Unidos a favor de un internet abierto.
The app’s videos have become a fixture in the lives of tens of millions of Americans.
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned.
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.
Los registros salieron a la luz brevemente en un juicio en el que estaba implicada la empresa del megadonante republicano Jeff Yass.
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
The records briefly surfaced in a lawsuit involving the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.
El Ai Pin cuesta 700 dólares y resulta útil para ciertas tareas, pero no se le dan bien las matemáticas ni las recetas de sándwiches.
Privacy advocates are raising alarms about a mysterious provision the House added to a surveillance bill last week. The Senate is likely to vote on the bill later this week.
The White House laid the ground work for Microsoft’s $1.5 billion investment in an Emirati artificial intelligence start-up, a deal meant to box out Beijing.
A Times investigation found that tech giants altered their own rules to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.
OpenAI, Google y Meta ignoraron las políticas corporativas, alteraron sus propias normas y debatieron la posibilidad de eludir la ley de derechos de autor en la búsqueda de información en línea para entrenar sus sistemas de inteligencia artificial más recientes.
Los desarrolladores de modelos se están quedando sin datos para entrenar a sus sistemas y se apoyan ahora en otros generados por la propia tecnología.
Anthropic’s co-founder and C.E.O. explains why he thinks artificial intelligence is on an “exponential curve.”
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.
This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness.
Para que los sistemas de inteligencia artificial sean más potentes, las empresas necesitan datos en línea para alimentar la tecnología. Esto es lo que hay que saber sobre la forma en que los consiguen.
Patrick Dai pleaded guilty to posting a series of messages in which he threatened to stab, rape and behead Jewish people.
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.
The ubiquity of screens is bad for teachers, students and society.
The deal between the gaming company Blizzard, now owned by Microsoft, and the Chinese giant NetEase renews a partnership that lapsed more than a year ago.
Tengo más de un millón de mensajes sin leer en mi correo electrónico (la mayor parte, basura). ¿Cómo es que internet y nuestra bandeja de entrada se transformó en un clóset imposible de organizar?
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.
Internet traffic dropped by 40 percent or more during the eclipse in states in the path of totality, including Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio, Cloudflare found.
A bill introduced by the Canadian government to safeguard against online harms has stirred opposition from free speech advocates.
What strategies do you use to have a healthier relationship with your devices?
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.
Nicholas Kristof on why tech companies aren’t powerless over the spread of deepfake porn.
La aplicación de video está gastando millones en anuncios mientras el Congreso considera un proyecto de ley que podría terminar en una prohibición en Estados Unidos.
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.
There’s a better way to do email.
Los expertos ofrecen consejos para reconocer las afirmaciones médicas falsas en internet y combatirlas en tus círculos cercanos, sin pelear con nadie.
Experts offer tips for combating false medical claims in your own circles.
A 24-year-old’s sudden death devastated his family — and caught the attention of the movement of vaccine opponents.
The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance.
As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to become an advertising company.
The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed that messaging back in large public forums.
The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination uses logical leaps and rhetorical devices to create false or misleading messages.
A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theories.
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
La operación de influencia comenzó al menos hace cuatro años y, según la empresa, abarcó miles de cuentas en Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X, Substack y sitios web chinos.
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
Two weeks after employees filed to organize, the company told some they had to change cities or would lose their jobs. It said the plan had long been in the works.
The iPhone maker’s recent quarter benefited from strong sales in its App Store and other services businesses.
After years of steady growth, many technology companies are laying off workers and giving up millions of square feet of office space in the city.
Overall iPhone sales were up, and revenue for the company’s services business set a record.
A day after nearly 1,100 people were laid off, the struggling company told its remaining workers to prepare for a series of changes.
The rule on price disclosure was written before widespread use of the internet. Regulators are considering an update.
They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.