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.
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.’
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.
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.
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.
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.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
Nilay Patel discusses the near-future of an internet as A.I.-generated content improves.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo.
I want my technology to have many capacities, but free will is not among them.
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban.
Silicon Valley was all about disruption. Turns out, that’s not all workers need.
Oren Etzioni solía ser optimista sobre la tecnología. Ahora, su organización sin fines de lucro, TrueMedia.org, ofrece herramientas para luchar contra los contenidos manipulados por IA.
A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
Readers discuss how the former president is or is not getting special treatment. Also: The killing of aid workers in Gaza; screens in the classroom.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.
Los economistas dudan que el impacto de esta tecnología ya sea visible en las cifras de productividad. Pero las grandes compañías dicen que la están adoptando en aras de la eficiencia.
Hay una cámara submarina en Utrech cuyas imágenes se transmiten en directo. Miles se han aficionado a la distracción y están fascinados por la oportunidad de ayudar a un pez a migrar.
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.
The tech giant is unbundling Teams from its Office software suite, as it faces mounting scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic.
Give your A.I. a personality, spend 10 hours experimenting, and other practical tips from Ethan Mollick.
The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.
¿Qué pasa cuando un columnista y un reportero utilizan gafas con IA para escanear comestibles, monumentos y animales del zoológico? Risas, asombro y un montón de errores.
Economists doubt that artificial intelligence is already visible in productivity data. Big companies, however, talk often about adopting it to improve efficiency.
David Autor, an M.I.T. economist and tech contrarian, argues that A.I. is fundamentally different from past waves of computerization.
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.
Responses to a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Analyzing Donald Trump’s base; a “deep state” makeover.
The answer involves a remarkable — and lucrative, and ridiculous — scheme to game the way we find music today.
Fourteen years and one Apple App of the Year award in, AllTrails has become something rare: a tool that works for both experts and newbies.
Nearly eight million customers and 65.4 million former account holders were affected by the data breach, the company said.
Así es como la sentencia de 25 años al exmagnate de las criptomonedas se compara con los procesos de Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff y otros casos populares.
Different ways of dating. Also: Donald Trump and Louis XIV; the stakes in the election; the music business; killing animals; memo to liberals.
The start-up is sharing the technology, Voice Engine, with a small group of early testers as it tries to understand the potential dangers.
A device called LightSound is being distributed to help the blind and visually impaired experience this year’s event.
An insidious creep of artificial intelligence is already penetrating our most important institutions.
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.
A push by leading Democrats to restrict how social media companies use algorithms to serve content to children has been met by a high-stakes lobbying effort.
Más de 100 directores de tecnología e inversionistas se reunirán en Washington el 1 de mayo. Y tienen una agenda.
He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.
Several young women have posted video accounts of being hit by a stranger, touching off apprehension and concern.
Here’s how the former crypto mogul’s 25-year sentence stacks up against the prosecutions of Michael Milken, Bernie Madoff and others.
Mr. Bankman-Fried, who was convicted of stealing $8 billion from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, faced a maximum sentence of 110 years.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.
Viewers are glued to an underwater livestream meant to help fish migration in the Netherlands. Devotees welcome the distraction — and the chance to help a fish get frisky.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals?
Moscow has found better ways to conceal influence operations that spread arguments for isolationism, officials and experts say.
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.
We need to start asking better questions about what kinds work for teachers and students.
The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.
Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days.
Readers discuss the First Amendment and efforts to monitor content on social media. Also: Senator Ted Cruz; talking about cancer; landlines; internet access.
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.