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 two sexes are looking past each other.
The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.
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.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
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.
Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.
The first lady, Melania Trump, issued a warning about the future of artificial intelligence during a meeting with tech executives at the White House on Thursday.
The ad for the Macintosh computer — which ran just once, during the Super Bowl — is considered one of the most memorable commercials ever made.
The company’s search dominance was ruled to be a monopoly. Now, it must hand over its data to rivals.
As a parent and congressman, I do not want my children’s brains to be programmed by corporations.
La solución de un juez federal se queda corta para hacer cambios importantes en cómo usamos los teléfonos, las computadoras y el internet.
Aunque aún no lo saben, la revolución de la inteligencia artificial va a acercar a las dos potencias, no a alejarlas.
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.
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.
El juez Amit Mehta dijo que la empresa debe entregar algunos de sus datos de búsqueda a sus rivales, pero no forzó otros grandes cambios.
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
The nuclear option for addressing the tech giant’s search dominance — a break-up — is off the table. That’s lifting Big Tech stocks.
Without trust between America and China on A.I., the risks extend far beyond their borders.
Building bigger A.I. isn’t leading to better A.I.
Varias de las nuevas aplicaciones se basan en la idea de que lo que realmente quieren los usuarios es no tener opciones infinitas.
A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.
The judge’s decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption.
Curbing Google is an overdue return to the government’s longtime role in encouraging competition among tech companies.
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.
In a landmark antitrust case, Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled on Tuesday that Google must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted.
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.
Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.
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.
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.
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.
Ahora más que nunca, Disney y empresas similares tienen acceso a datos que les muestran quién está dispuesto a gastar, y cuánto, por determinadas experiencias.
The theme-park operator, like so many other companies, is abandoning America’s middle class.
The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for its chips should continue this quarter.
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.
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.
Este verano, el proyecto FoundHer House, una casa de “hackers” exclusivamente para mujeres, ofreció a sus residentes una comunidad de apoyo para crear sus empresas emergentes.
The trillions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into new data centers are starting to show up in economic growth. For now, at least.
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.
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.
It will be effective if people who work at big tech companies start quitting their jobs.
The president said he hoped to “get as much as I can,” signaling a shift in the relationship between government and private business.
Las “Panama Playlists” pusieron al descubierto los hábitos de escucha de Spotify de personas famosas y de dos periodistas que no sabían tanto sobre la protección de su privacidad como pensaban.
Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.
Plus, Spotify playlists can spill your secrets.
What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them in many cases to our fellow humans?
Longing for the past can be good news for the future.
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.
In Pakistan, hundreds are in jail on charges of blaspheming Islam. Rights groups say some of these cases are due to bad actors entrapping victims online.
El uso excesivo de dispositivos digitales perjudica a los adolescentes, según sugieren las investigaciones. Pero la tecnología omnipresente podría ayudar a los estadounidenses mayores a mantenerse alertas.
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.
Nick Foster helped Apple and Google envision the future. He has some notes.
Cuando llegue, el futuro no será extremo, sino ordinario. Solo que nuestra idea de lo ordinario cambiará un poco.
The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.
The settlements are an about-face for the billionaire, whose company fought with former workers over whether it owed them severance pay.
A deal would be among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
The short-form video app has until mid-September to change its ownership structure or face a ban in the United States, after a number of deadline extensions from President Trump.
El CEO de la aplicación de aprendizaje dice que utilizar la inteligencia artificial podría permitir hacer muchas más tareas, pero no significa que dejará de lado a las personas.
Empleados de la empresa dicen que el ejecutivo era volátil y que tomó represalias cuando cooperaron con una investigación. Apple niega las acusaciones.
Raphaël Graven, conocido en internet como Jean Pormanove, era sometido a humillaciones y vejaciones en Kick, una plataforma de transmisión en directo.
Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.
Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was regularly subjected to humiliation and abuse on Kick, a streaming platform.
In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary idea: to create a place where women could find a work-life balance.
Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.
His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence.
Deepfakes are getting more realistic, and more difficult to stop. Congress needs to take steps now.
At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Just as manufacturing towns failed to recognize the looming threat of new technology, cities now risk underestimating the disruption of artificial intelligence.
A.I.-powered tools can help you plan trips, squeeze value out of loyalty programs and translate languages. But don’t give up Google Flights just yet.
Silicon Valley’s obsession with creating artificial intelligence that surpasses human abilities is going too far.
The Trump administration says that law enforcement organizations in Britain would back off asking the company for a tool to access customers’ data.
Federal officials are considering the move because Intel, the last leading-edge chipmaker in the United States, has been struggling.
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.
The analyst Dan Wang takes stock of how the country’s growth trajectory has changed.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety.
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
The chief executive, under pressure from activist investors, seeks to do well and do good — but his options are narrowing.
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
The drumbeat of layoffs in Silicon Valley is partly a result of how the pandemic upended the economy.
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice.
Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their work forces are still behemoths.
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.