Notable thinkers keep telling us they think A.I. is conscious. That doesn’t mean it’s true.
Some of this country’s most prominent girl bosses sound like they don’t even know how to read the room.
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.
As I watched my husband’s dot go to places he loved, I felt newly connected to him. But could I protect him?
The A.I. company, which is in the middle of a court fight with Elon Musk, has been unhappy with how Apple has integrated ChatGPT into its devices.
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments in the blockbuster federal trial on Thursday. Nine jurors are set to begin deliberations next week.
Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, fooling A.I. systems into bad behavior is almost trivial.
Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.
The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.
Ishmael Reed, provocateur and playwright, has a few words for the billionaires of Silicon Valley.
After a series of political victories under President Trump, firms are lobbying Congress for a sweeping framework they helped shape.
Dozens of long-shot bets on Polymarket, from the war with Iran to the cryptocurrency market, have defied the odds, according to a New York Times examination.
OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
Apps from Apple, Google and others can assist in making your online accounts more secure, even as new ways of logging in continue to take off.
“If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm is now the biggest known spender on this campaign cycle.
The start-up, which makes A.I.-backed weapons, was valued at $61 billion in the financing round, double what it was a year ago.
The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.
Mr. Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he worried Elon Musk wanted control of the A.I. lab.
The online marketplace has remade itself by focusing on collectibles and other high-end goods — and attracted an unwelcome takeover bid from GameStop.
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
The police in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney and elsewhere are responding to incidents related to a TikTok trend involving running through Scientology buildings.
The company is trying to help streaming influencers, who are increasingly being wooed by competitors like Netflix and TikTok.
As tech giants dominate the hardware needed to build artificial intelligence, Amp hopes to create an alternative.
There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.
The cases seek to use consumer product safety laws to rein in chatbot companies.
As companies look to build cash flow and loyalty, everything from heated car seats to earthworm deliveries can become a recurring charge on your credit card.
Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data.
Elon Musk’s lawyer argued that Microsoft’s Satya Nadella played a role in getting Mr. Altman his job back at OpenAI when he was briefly fired in 2023.
The tech leaders, with combined net worths exceeding $670 billion, have brought props to court and traded icy stares as their legal dispute reaches a denouement.
The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.
Si se mira con atención, se pueden ver grietas en la armadura de la empresa de Mark Zuckerberg.
What are the implications of artificial intelligence for religion?
Un grupo de hackers se atribuyó la vulneración de datos que afectó a la plataforma de aprendizaje y puso en peligro los datos personales de millones de usuarios.
As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off.
Meta has commenced a long, slow slide into irrelevance.
Our research shows what works. It’s not a complete ban.
In “Screen People,” Megan Garber looks at how we all became famous for 15 minutes.
A hacking group that claimed responsibility for attacking Canvas’s parent company said it had gained access to data from more than 275 million people across 9,000 schools.
The rocket company’s new semiconductor factory, called Terafab, is part of the billionaire’s increasing efforts to dominate artificial intelligence.
School phone bans aren’t magic. We still need them.
Google’s A.I. search technology is far from perfect (don’t count on it for celebrity news), but it excels at tasks like picking out groceries and detecting scams.
The chief executive, Dario Amodei, said the rapid growth had exponentially increased the start-up’s need for more computing power.
Shivon Zilis worked closely with Elon Musk while she was on OpenAI’s board. Her ties to the world’s richest man were detailed in a landmark trial on Wednesday.
Gabi, the newest monk at a temple in Seoul, vowed to not overcharge as it seeks enlightenment.
Investors questioned Ryan Cohen’s latest gambit after he gave an evasive CNBC interview and a once-loyal supporter sold his GameStop shares.
With cutting-edge sports medicine and sci-fi gadgetry, more and more athletes are figuring out how to extend their careers.
El gobierno de EE. UU. debate una orden ejecutiva para crear un grupo de trabajo que reúna a ejecutivos tecnológicos y funcionarios del gobierno para examinar procedimientos de supervisión.
El apogeo de los dramas generados por IA ha provocado protestas. Los actores afirman que les quita oportunidades y algunos videos usan imágenes de celebridades sin autorización.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, testified in a trial pitting Mr. Musk against his company that the world’s richest man was eager to change how it operated as a nonprofit.
A new level of global disorder will face the American and Chinese presidents at their summit. Like Mao and Nixon, they face a common threat.
Some iPhone owners will be eligible to receive $25 to $95 over claims that the tech giant oversold its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence.
The largest U.S. crypto exchange said it was cutting jobs because of cryptocurrency market volatility and to “optimize” for the artificial intelligence era.
The agency, which has been pulling back on lawsuits against major companies, ended a case that had accused Mr. Musk of hiding his purchases of Twitter stock. He agreed to pay $1.5 million.
The legal team implied in a federal trial that Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, was driven by greed rather than building safe A.I.
The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available.
The department’s inspector general found a heightened risk of cyberattacks in mobile devices used by staff of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The department acknowledged shortcomings.
The technology giant met with administration officials last week to address a growing concern in Washington: insufficient computing power for artificial intelligence.
Both parties can agree to do a whole lot on A.I., but they have to move faster.
The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation.
The feeling of efficiency should be mistrusted.
Contar los minutos es una mala forma de frenar los hábitos telefónicos. He aquí los verdaderos antídotos, según los expertos.
Even before the rocket company holds a major initial public offering, many people own stock in it through so-called special purpose vehicles.
La fantasía de los hackers se hizo realidad cuando el nuevo modelo de IA de Anthropic demostró que podía detectar vulnerabilidades de software.
In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.
The Silicon Valley company, which is undergoing a chief executive transition, also reported a 19 percent increase in profit.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
The data analysis company is selling a version of the jacket that it says will show its commitment to “re-industrializing America.”
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.
Counting minutes is a poor way to curb phone habits. Real antidotes, experts say, include mindful parenting, curated content and human connection.
Gemini is a digital Swiss Army knife for planning flights, activities and routes, but it isn’t perfect. Why did it forget to put underwear on the packing list?
In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said he was misled by the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.
In partnership with Expedia, the ride-booking, food-delivering, package-transporting service takes another step toward becoming a super app.
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.
From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.
European Union regulators said the company did not have effective controls to check a user’s self-declared date of birth, in violation of an online safety law.
In the trial’s first day of testimony, Elon Musk said greed led co-founder Sam Altman to pull the A.I. lab away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI says that’s nonsense.
La demanda de Musk contra Altman y OpenAI demuestra que la codicia total es el rasgo definitorio de Silicon Valley.
Irreverent tributes filled with unvarnished truths and funny anecdotes, which run counter to more somber traditional obituaries, have gained attention for “how alive they feel,” a researcher said.
The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.
Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.
Mr. Musk’s posts on X have pushed his narrative that OpenAI has lost its way.
Social media helped put Trump over the top. What’s A.I. going to do to us?
From beauty influencers to the token political opposition, Russians are openly questioning President Vladimir V. Putin’s moves to hamstring access.
Nobody can afford to be relaxed about their digital security anymore.
Mr. Musk’s lawsuit against Mr. Altman and OpenAI makes the case that all-encompassing greed is Silicon Valley’s defining feature.
A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed dangerous.
The widening movement is pulling in people from all walks of life, united by a worry that Big Tech will cash in while average Americans bear the costs.
The feed makes everything, bombs and nachos and the dead, weigh the same. Which is to say: nothing.
Oakland, Calif., where Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, starts on Monday, is not exactly known as a hub of the tech industry.
Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest financial partner, will continue to license the start-up’s technology but will no longer be its exclusive licensee.
The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant’s growing ambitions in video podcasts.
Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes.
Influencers jumped to fill the information void with conspiracy theories about the attack at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday.
The short answer: not really. The long answer: maybe with a little help.
Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to President Trump in exchange for investment in one of his family’s crypto ventures.
The industry’s murky supply chain has long attracted scammers and con artists. In the words of one expert, “Wine and fraud go hand in hand.”
The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.
La IA siempre ha sido comparada con la inteligencia humana, pero quizá esa no sea la forma más adecuada de entenderla. Sus fortalezas permiten anticipar qué empleos podría sustituir.
El exdirector ejecutivo convirtió a Apple en un gigante, pero lo hizo arriesgando la seguridad económica y política de Estados Unidos.
Nuevas tecnologías de monitoreo ayudan a los adultos mayores a recordar que tomen sus pastillas o a entablar conversaciones con un robot mientras aligeran la carga para los cuidadores que no pueden estar siempre con ellos.
The investment comes as the A.I. start-up looks to keep up with accelerating demand for its business and coding products.
John Ternus will face many of the same issues that Tim Cook has grappled with for years.
Mr. Altman, who has faced criticism over OpenAI’s direction, has culled company projects and is trying to be more disciplined with strategy.
The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.
Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all.
The chip maker reported a 7 percent rise to $13.6 billion in its latest quarter, more than $1 billion more than Wall Street expected.
The tech giant is offering long-serving employees early retirements as it continues to invest aggressively in artificial intelligence.
The layoffs affect about 8,000 employees, with Meta also planning to close 6,000 open roles, as the company focuses on artificial intelligence.
The maker of ChatGPT is taking a more open approach to cybersecurity than its chief rival, Anthropic.
A jury trial that is set to start on Monday could shift the course of the A.I. race, with Mr. Musk seeking billions of dollars in damages from Mr. Altman’s OpenAI.
Tim Cook made Apple a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America’s economic and political security.
La conmoción por Mythos se produce en un momento en el que existe una mínima cooperación internacional en materia de IA. No existe un equivalente del Tratado sobre la No Proliferación de las Armas Nucleares, ni inspecciones compartidas, ni normas acordadas.
Justin Sun, one of the largest backers of World Liberty Financial, sued the Trump family’s crypto start-up, accusing it of a fraudulent scheme to pressure him into buying digital coins.
Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.
Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?
As SpaceX prepares to go public, Mr. Musk has proposed moonshots that differ from the company’s original aim of reaching Mars.
Ben Riley, quien escribe un boletín sobre los riesgos de los chatbots, no supo qué hacer cuando su padre empezó a confiar en la inteligencia artificial para manejar su diagnóstico de cáncer.
The unassuming look of the outgoing Apple chief executive was an asset, as he navigated pop culture, the president and following Steve Jobs.
The attack against Sam Altman reflects how badly Silicon Valley needs to address the societal consequences of its products.
If the Steve Jobs era was defined by technological innovation, the Tim Cook period was one of exceptional financial growth.
John Ternus, an Apple veteran who runs hardware engineering, will take over an extraordinarily profitable company in need of new ideas.
Most prisons forbid online access. But inmates are finding ways to ask chatbots questions anyway.
Tim Cook said on Monday that he would step down as the chief executive of Apple after nearly 15 years. John Ternus, the head of Apple’s hardware engineering, will take over in September.
El líder del fabricante de los iPhone será sustituido por John Ternus, jefe de ingeniería de hardware de la empresa.
Anthropic also committed to spending $100 billion on Amazon technologies that can help build and deploy A.I. systems.
Apple’s corner office has been a seat from which executives like Steve Jobs changed how we interact with technology.
The longtime leader of the iPhone maker will be replaced by John Ternus, the company’s head of hardware engineering.