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.
Two columnists debate this strange moment.
The company said the new law, which makes it illegal for children under 16 to have social media accounts, infringes on children’s rights.
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Do Kwon, who designed the virtual currencies Luna and TerraUSD, which plunged in 2022, had pleaded guilty to fraud.
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.
Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.
The typeface, the target of the State Department’s typographical about-face, has been entangled in politics before.
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts his antitrust chief in an awkward position.
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.
Savvy theater makers are exploring the debasing effects of online culture on relationships.
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.
In an uncertain and often frightening world, more people are searching for meaning in communities of faith.
The measure is one of the most sweeping efforts in the world to safeguard children from the harms of the platforms.
El país está por prohibir a los menores de 16 años el acceso a las redes sociales, con una amplia ley federal que constituye uno de los primeros intentos de regulación a nivel nacional.
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.
Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.
Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.
The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.
The European Commission said Meta, which owns both platforms, is giving users the option of sharing less data in exchange for less personalized ads.
Online casinos have proved to be a much stronger source of tax revenue than sports betting apps. They may be coming to a state near you.
Pay attention to how you pay attention.
Si las empresas pueden modificar productos conectados a internet y cobrar suscripciones después de que la gente ya los compró, ¿qué significa realmente ser dueño de algo hoy en día?
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.
Being a smart consumer has never been easier. Influencers and the fashion industry are all taking advantage of that.
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off the likes of TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. The teenagers are skeptical.
The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.
The new repost option, sandwiched between comment and share, has led to consternation and accidental reposts by some users.
Mario Nawfal has a knack for getting Mr. Musk’s attention online, and for turning that into big business.
Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
The case over online transparency has become a flashpoint between the European Union and the Trump administration.
Generative A.I. needs a course correction for the sake of energy efficiency and for its own advancement.
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
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.
Abbott Diabetes Care said it had received reports of more than 700 injuries that may be associated with malfunctioning sensors.
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.
If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?
Gov. Kathy Hochul received nearly $250,000 for her re-election campaign from donors eager to have her sign a bill that would regulate the A.I. field in New York.
Jimmy Donaldson, who is known as MrBeast online, discussed the differences in content quality between YouTube and TikTok at The New York Times’s DealBook summit.
As he and his company pour tens of billions into new data centers, Dario Amodei said they face a “cone of uncertainty.”
At this year’s DealBook Summit, the Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei told Andrew Ross Sorkin, 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.
Andrew Ross Sorkin will interview some of the most powerful people from Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Washington.
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.
Si fomentamos el pensamiento crítico y la flexibilidad creativa de nuestros hijos ahora, podemos ayudarles a prepararse para un futuro con IA.
The government said the rules were needed to prevent theft and other crime. Its opponents and privacy activists regard the app as a tool of mass surveillance.
Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.
I help to build A.I. systems, and even I know there are real reasons to be concerned about how A.I. affects our children.
Según los comercios y las empresas tecnológicas, los chatbots pueden ayudar a las personas a hacer frente a la “fatiga de decisión por las opciones interminables”.
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.
I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.
The European airplane maker said a recent incident had shown that “intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”
Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
Ni las mismas compañías creadoras de la tecnología parecen saber bien hacia dónde se dirige.
The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
Vivimos una época de superlativos en la industria tecnológica, con ganancias, cotizaciones bursátiles y precios de transacción históricos. Suficiente para poner muy nerviosos a algunos.
Even the companies building the technology don’t seem exactly sure where it’s headed.
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.
Starcloud is a new Nvidia-backed company that is joining Google and a few other companies in developing plans to eventually put data centers in space. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss what those data centers will look like and how they will transmit information to Earth.
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.
Faith is not meant to be transactional or tailored to you.
Artificial intelligence is unpopular and uncool — so A.I. companies are making ads that don’t even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off?
These five titles, recommended by therapists and researchers, can help you curb the urge to scroll.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been increasingly embraced by right-wing influencers. Craig Jones is an unlikely counterforce.
Plus, what a social media break can do for your brain.
New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.
Strava logs all your fitness achievements — and then some.
The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.
The Justice Department had accused the real estate software company of enabling landlords to charge tenants more than free-market rates.
The announcement on Sunday, which was light on details, came weeks before a similar action takes effect in Australia.
All you need is common sense.
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.
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?
A windfall for companies that build data centers and their suppliers is overshadowing weakness in other industries.
Con la llegada del taxi robot Zoox de Amazon a San Francisco para competir con Waymo, los servicios autónomos están ganando impulso. Pero hay pros y contras.
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.
Una tecnología que puede leer las mentes, y tal vez incluso cambiarlas.
How the rise and fall of the nihilist hipster gave us the cruel reactionaries of today.
La tecnología de IA y los implantes neuronales avanzan a velocidades vertiginosas. ¿Necesitamos nuevas legislaciones para proteger nuestro ser más íntimo?
As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.
Twitch, a livestreaming service popular with gamers, joins nine other platforms that will be required to remove Australian users under the age of 16.
My colleague talks about technology that can actually read our minds — and maybe even change them.
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.
Right-wing users have tapped A.I. tools to promote President Trump’s agenda. He took notice.
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.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
Aunque algunos ejecutivos de California pintan a China como el enemigo, los profesionales del país asiático siguen desempeñando un papel importante en la investigación estadounidense.
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.
The company, which makes the computer chips essential to the artificial intelligence boom, also said revenue in its recent quarter rose to $57 billion.
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 country’s economy.
Mr. Summers’ departure from the artificial intelligence company’s board followed revelations of his communications with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
Gemini 3 mejora la capacidad de su predecesor para crear programas de software, organizar el correo electrónico y ayudar a las empresas a analizar documentos.
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.
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.
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.
The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.
Los servicios de la empresa de software sustentan miles de sitios web.
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.
Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites. The company said it was working on a fix.
Según un estudio, al menos 28.000 millones de dólares vinculados a actividades ilícitas han entrado en las bolsas de criptomonedas en los dos últimos años.
Por primera vez, los científicos están monitoreando la migración de las mariposas monarca por gran parte de Norteamérica mediante nuevos transmisores diminutos.
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.
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico.
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.
Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
The kiosks, which resemble conventional A.T.M.s and convert cash into virtual currencies, are increasingly under scrutiny as a tool for scammers.
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.
Cada cuatro años, en el Cibatlón, equipos de investigadores y “pilotos” tecnológicos compiten para ver qué interfaz cerebro-computador es más prometedora.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
The self-driving taxis have become ubiquitous in the city, but an uproar ensued when one ran over a beloved feline.
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.
Apple joined Google this week in allowing travelers to add their passports to their cellphone “wallets.” As the holiday travel season nears, here’s what you need to know.
Paul Kingsnorth on technology’s war against human nature.
As neural implant technology and A.I. advance at breakneck speeds, do we need a new set of rights to protect our most intimate data — our minds?
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.
Craving an art fix but don’t know where to start? These new art influencers can help newbies and players navigate openings, events and listings.
Anchorage will experiment with internet voting in local elections, betting that its ease and security will win over voters even in an era of election conspiracy theories.
Nuestra adopción de la tecnología ha sido tan rápida que estamos perdiendo la capacidad de darnos cuenta qué se siente vivir de esta manera.
The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues.
AIDOL, Russia’s first artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot, collapsed onstage moments after it was revealed at a technology event in Moscow on Tuesday.
The streaming platform unveiled its plan in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee.
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.
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.