The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
The artificial intelligence giant just announced a major partnership with AMD — weeks after striking a big deal with the chipmaker’s competitor, Nvidia.
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
This is worse than putting all your eggs in one basket.
Una nueva función de los iPhones filtra las llamadas, de forma similar a una tecnología disponible para los usuarios de Android. Aquí te explicamos cómo activarla.
Prediction markets like Kalshi, once known for offering wagers on elections, are now in the multibillion-dollar sports betting business and outside the reach of state regulations and taxes.
The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk.
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.
Un movimiento se propone averiguarlo.
Are you playing the technology or is the technology playing you? In a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” the musician Brian Eno and the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein discuss how generative A.I. changes our relationship with agency.
The president’s decision to charge employers $100,000 per visa for skilled workers seemed to come out of nowhere. But the grievance behind it has been simmering.
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.
Surging interest in artificial intelligence is generating huge gains for Chinese tech stocks like Alibaba, which has more than doubled this year.
Trump administration officials have issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents.
With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held company, surpassing the rocket maker SpaceX.
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.
A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.
Nearly two years into the conflict, social media is increasingly capturing the day-to-day toll in Gaza, as U.S. public opinion on the war shifts.
The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.
Internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday after a two-day nationwide blackout that paralyzed the economy and grounded planes. The Taliban government gave no reason for the outage, or the resumption of services.
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
A nationwide internet outage in Afghanistan has made it nearly impossible for people to communicate with one another or the outside world and has disrupted banking services and aid distribution.
Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.
Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been halted. The scope of the blackout is rare, even for a government that has increasingly rolled back freedoms.
The company is facing similar lawsuits in federal and state courts from people who claim their drivers sexually assaulted or harassed them.
OpenAI said parents can set time and content limits on accounts and receive notifications if ChatGPT detects signs of potential self-harm.
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. It’s a huge part of the sports gambling industry. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers.
La combinación numérica se refiere a un horario de trabajo de 9 a. m. a 9 p. m., seis días a la semana, que tiene su origen en el ambiente tecnológico chino.
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.
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.
Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.”
As the industry embraces A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
A campus movement aims to find out.
A.I. feels like a runaway train. But we don’t have to let it run over us.
Si bien la IA de hoy puede fingir empatía, una IA superinteligente no necesitará molestarse con los deseos humanos.
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and the roles of students and parents. Also: Infants and screens; prizes for the president.
As another classical music season gets underway, we — players, listeners and promoters — should consider the treasure of deep immersion into music.
The number combination refers to a work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — that has its origins in China’s hard-charging tech scene.
Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.
Reliance on fossil fuels is almost unavoidable — at least for now.
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.
El auge de la IA, que ha hecho que los expertos en tecnología regresen en masa a la ciudad, ha impulsado un resurgimiento de los eventos en vivo que, a veces, cobran tintes futuristas.
A judge’s remedy for the company’s illegal monopolization of search may worsen the problem.
Spruce Pine, N.C., supplies the world’s highest-purity quartz, a mineral that keeps the A.I. revolution afloat. What are the consequences?
El caso se centraba en la idea de los “patrones oscuros”, es decir, si el diseño de un sitio web dirige conscientemente a los clientes hacia suscripciones que realmente no desean.
The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on the technology’s risks and rewards.
The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese investors for a U.S. version of the app.
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.”
The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system.
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
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.
The app should be required to provide searchable databases so propaganda campaigns can be tracked.
Believing artificial intelligence is magic is just as baseless as believing photographs can capture spirits. That’s not stopping people.
The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its finances as it looks to turn around its ailing business.
Speaking at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event, the chief sustainability officers of Microsoft and Google said that their goals to achieve net-zero emissions or better by 2030 are still achievable.
Christopher Chung, who plays the I.T. whiz Roddy Ho on the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses,” also works as a personal trainer. In the show’s new Season 5, he’s at the center of the action.
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.
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.
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.
The streaming platform unveiled its plan in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
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.
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.
How Trump has made his mark in politics and in our minds.
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.
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.
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.
The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban.
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.
On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s advertising technology monopoly.
Fox Corporation is considering investing in the popular video app as part of a bid to avert a U.S. ban, a person familiar with the situation said after the president’s remarks.
The TikTok deal is Trumpism 101.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta y OpenAI tienen previsto gastar al menos 325.000 millones de dólares para finales de año en proyectos de desarrollo de la tecnología. Esta es una guía de sus objetivos.
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.
Legible meaning doesn’t neatly emerge from the world of online discourse.
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.
The president wrote on Truth Social, “appreciate the TikTok approval,” after a call with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. But he also suggested the deal and other issues were still in progress.
Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.
The artificial intelligence boom, which has brought techies flocking back to the city, has fueled a resurgence of live — and sometimes futuristic — events.
La industria de la “tecnología de la fe” está en pleno auge, impulsada por chatbots impulsados con IA disponibles en aplicaciones religiosas.
Muchos estadounidenses recurren a chatbots para que les ayuden a enfrentar las deudas, encontrar mejores formas de ahorrar o averiguar cómo invertir en bolsa.
Agreeing to a deal suggests that the fate of TikTok matters less to Beijing than gaining leverage on issues it cares most about, like tariffs, technology and Taiwan.
The two leaders are expected to speak Friday to discuss a deal to keep the wildly popular app from going dark in the United States.
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.
The Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, claiming they misled artists and consumers.
Esta tecnología es uno de los ejemplos más claros hasta la fecha de cómo la inteligencia artificial puede utilizarse de forma práctica y eficiente para mejorar la vida de las personas.
Plus, smart glasses and even smarter headphones.
Some provincial officials said the country’s leader instructed them to switch off Wi-Fi in their area to limit the “misuse of the internet” and diffusion of “immoral acts.”
Larry Ellison is now suddenly poised to become the most powerful media mogul America has ever seen.
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.
The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how we write, but what writing is for.
The chairman of the F.C.C., who is in the spotlight for his comments that may have led to the suspension of late night TV show host Jimmy Kimmel, has long criticized the media for perceived bias.
At its annual developer conference on Wednesday, Meta showed several new smart glasses, which have been a surprise hit for the company.
Both Democrats and Republicans seem to think that we need to be protected from what’s online.
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.
It was the fourth time President Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to find a new owner or face a ban in the United States. This time, officials have said they are nearing a deal to address concerns about the app.
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.
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.
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.
A los 7 años, Ethan Dallas empezó a jugar al juego en línea, donde conoció a Nate. Luego, siguieron abusos que terminaron con el suicidio de Ethan, dijo su madre, quien culpa a Roblox.
Trump administration officials say they have the framework of a deal to save the popular video app. It had until Sept. 17 to be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
Eric Yuan, who saw the firm he founded become a household name during the pandemic, is trying to change the way people use the platform.
The youngest chair in the history of the Federal Trade Commission is campaigning for Zohran Mamdani and defending her brand of populism.
Millions of people are turning to chatbots to confess their darkest secrets and seek guidance from on high. “Is this actually God I am talking to?”
Social media is turning tragic events into snuff films.
The messages relied on an enigmatic, coded communication style used by the habitually online.
More people are turning to generative A.I. chatbots for financial advice, whether it’s for debt management, better saving strategies or stock picks.
The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already resulted in lost jobs, suspensions and internal investigations, heightening tensions online between supporters and detractors of Charlie Kirk.
At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly abuse followed, said Ethan’s mother, who blames Roblox.
The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.
Trump is steering the U.S. model of capitalism closer to the Chinese one, swapping innovation and competition for state control and cronyism.
The artist Tom Sachs, whose longtime partnership with Nike was suspended over suggestions that he ran a hostile studio, isn’t making it easy to nab his latest design for the brand.
Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.
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.
Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.
The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.
A.I. tools can hinder cognitive development in students. Parents are essential to fostering responsible use.
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.
The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.
First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.
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.
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
In the country’s largest district to ban phones, students, teachers and parents reported some frustrations, but also benefits.
El gigante de Silicon Valley también presentó actualizaciones de sus celulares tradicionales, así como de sus AirPods y Apple Watch.
Facebook has repeatedly flagged his accounts, he says, for “impersonating” the company’s founder, Mark E. Zuckerberg.
The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.
The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.
Las empresas tecnológicas están realizando simulacros con IA, láseres y más para demostrar que pueden formar parte de la Cúpula Dorada, el ambicioso plan del presidente de EE. UU. para un escudo antimisiles.
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.
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.
Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about bands.
El Kremlin ha iniciado una campaña para influir en las elecciones parlamentarias de Moldavia, en lo que podría convertirse en un nuevo modelo de injerencia electoral en internet.
We’ve traveled far beyond political spin.
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.
Critics worry a new law could curb freedom of expression, affect tourism and cut communication with the many Nepalis who work abroad.
The message to other companies is plain: It pays to break the law.
The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.
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.
The chief executive of Carvana, which sells used cars online, said President Trump’s tariffs could help his company by increasing demand for its vehicles.
The internet giant told employees on Monday that it expected them to return to the office full-time in January.
N.I.H. officials suggested federal record keepers helped them hide emails. If so, “that’s really damaging to trust in all of government,” one expert said.
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.