Decades after mega retail centers became a shorthand for bland suburbia, there may be some hope for them yet.
The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing his options to fix the monopoly. Here’s what happens now.
The search giant’s proposals included allowing flexibility for companies and consumers in choosing a search engine.
The artificial intelligence start-up said the new system, OpenAI o3, outperformed leading A.I. technologies on tests that rate skills in math, science, coding and logic.
A recent visit to the company’s overhauled drone delivery program in Arizona left me impressed by the drones, but skeptical that the public will welcome them.
A new state law will clamp down on what Gov. Kathy Hochul called a “predatory black market” for restaurant reservations.
Researchers say data from long-haul trucks and General Motors cars is critical for addressing traffic congestion and road safety. Data privacy experts have their concerns.
The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.
Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress?
Redesigned interfaces, new features and artificial intelligence are meant to enhance the experience, even if the changes can be confusing at first.
A movement by some Democratic voters to investigate the results of the 2024 presidential election mirrors a push by Republicans in 2020. But it’s struggling.
Se levantó la alerta de tsunami para la nación insular del Pacífico pero los sitios web del gobierno quedaron fuera de servicio. El edificio de la embajada de Estados Unidos sufrió graves daños, dijeron las autoridades.
The artificial intelligence start-up’s funding shows investors remain enthusiastic about the A.I. boom.
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake caused heavy damage to buildings, including the U.S. Embassy, and knocked out the internet across most of the Pacific Island nation.
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury in the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive.
A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could heat up competition with SpaceX, owned by Mr. Musk.
Building a chatbot like ChatGPT requires billions upon billions of dollars. That’s the driving force behind OpenAI’s plans to change how it’s managed.
As the maker of ChatGPT battles Google and Meta for A.I. supremacy, it’s also fighting to end control by a nonprofit board.
Silicon Valley hopes that tech giants like Elon Musk could help to push the incoming Trump administration toward offering more visas to highly skilled foreign workers.
Para sus simpatizantes, Claude parece ser más creativo y empático. Menos irritantemente robótico. Sus respuestas, dicen, no parecen tener la prosa genérica generada por otros chatbots.
A tsunami alert was lifted for the Pacific island nation, but government websites were offline after the quake. The U.S. Embassy building was seriously damaged, officials said.
Powerful Americans have lost the will to resist Trump.
The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.
The technology company plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects, echoing the multibillion-dollar pledge it made after Donald J. Trump’s first election victory in 2016.
It may employ a kind of reasoning humans use all the time — but you’ve probably never heard of it.
A company called Empower is trying to take on Uber, Lyft and local regulators as it piles up fines and draws new passengers to its service.
Readers worry about cuts to the National Institutes of Health. Also: Maternity wards; overdose deaths; vetting presidential candidates; tech tycoons in charge.
Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.
El empresario está utilizando su cuenta en su plataforma para señalar a empleados federales y anunciar posibles recortes en organismos del gobierno. Ya ha utilizado este método antes.
The OpenAI C.E.O. spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.
It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.
TikTok had sought to temporarily freeze a law that requires its Chinese parent to sell the app or face a U.S. ban next month. The case may now head to the Supreme Court.
The artificial intelligence start-up argues that Mr. Musk is trying to hamstring its business as he builds a rival company.
The chief executive of Apple is the latest in a series of technology executives who are traveling to Florida to meet with the president-elect.
A judge said this week that a former executive at ByteDance seemed to have fabricated evidence and submitted false statements in a high-profile 2023 lawsuit against the company.
Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.
Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts. He has used this method before.
A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?
La decisión forma parte de un patrón en el que empresas tecnológicas están tomando medidas para reparar sus relaciones con el presidente electo.
After mass layoffs and a pivot to A.I., the tech industry has been scaling back on the splashy and quirky benefits it had become known for.
Three new books explore the fraught relationships between tech companies and the U.S. government through close looks at Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and Elon Musk’s X.
The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a profound debate about the future of an industry that funds and fosters American innovation.
The move follows Meta’s donation of the same amount to the fund earlier this week.
Se trata del paso más reciente que Mark Zuckerberg, director ejecutivo de la empresa, ha tomado para fomentar una relación positiva con Donald Trump.
The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.
The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.
Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. When do companies scrub a digital trail?
The union, which represents some 600 tech workers at the publication, had been negotiating for a contract for more than two years. It will vote on ratifying the deal next week.
At this year’s DealBook Summit, there was a sense that trust was becoming harder to come by and that the rules for how people judge the truth had shifted.
Industry leaders attending the conference were asked about artificial intelligence, the economy, international relations and more.
Most members of a DealBook Summit panel described immense benefits from artificial intelligence and saw its risks as manageable.
Ciertas apps para celulares descargadas de Apple y Google pueden permitir a padres y otros abusadores conectar con pedófilos que pagan por ver —y guiar— conductas delictivas.
The experimental tool can browse spreadsheets, shopping sites and other services, before taking action on behalf of the computer user.
The country’s largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the voracious power demand of technology companies.
Eli wasn’t finding a connection on the apps, so he did something drastic.
Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies.
Google presentó una máquina experimental capaz de realizar tareas que una supercomputadora tradicional no podría dominar en 10 cuatrillones de años.
Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.
The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it.
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.
The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks.
New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?
Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.
Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.
“We’re putting another burden on the elderly that we don’t have to,” one researcher said.
Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.
The social media service was flooded with videos on Friday after a panel of judges upheld a law that could shutter the app in the United States.
The involvement of wealthy investors has made this presidential transition one of the most potentially conflict-ridden in modern history.
Legacy credit cards and banks aren’t the only banking options to come with perks for premium access to events anymore.
Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead.
The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.
As Silicon Valley chases military tech and funding, it’s losing sight of what inspires its workers.
The price of a single Bitcoin rose to six figures for the first time, an extraordinary level for a 16-year-old cryptocurrency once dismissed as a sideshow.
Trumponomics, inflation, artificial intelligence, the changing media landscape, and the Elon Musk effect — these were the big themes covered at the annual event.
Google’s chief executive rejected the idea that rivals were set to eat into the company’s dominance in search, despite antitrust fights that could force it to break up.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, the DealBook editor-at-large, asked the C.E.O. of Google, Sundar Pichai, about the August antitrust ruling that labeled Google as an illegal monopoly.
If confirmed as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, she would inherit lawsuits to break up Google’s search monopoly and ad tech dominance, as well as a case accusing Apple of making it hard for consumers to switch software and h...
El juez federal que dictaminó que Google era un monopolio en las búsquedas está sopesando la propuesta del gobierno estadounidense de obligar a la empresa a vender su navegador Chrome.
The District of Columbia’s attorney general said the company deliberately outsourced Prime member deliveries in certain ZIP codes.
Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices and several start-ups are beginning to offer credible alternatives to Nvidia’s chips, especially for a phase of A.I. development known as “inferencing.”
The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel’s military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing the U.S. government’s proposal to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Here’s what happens now.
Pat Gelsinger stepped down after nearly four years at the helm of the onetime highflying company, Intel said Monday.
The internet is made up of hundreds of cables crossing the floors and the canyons of the earth’s oceans. So what happens when the cables snap? James Glanz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains what could go wrong with subsea ...
Rachel Accurso might be this era’s Mister Rogers, if he had been on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Toy companies and publishers all want a piece of the action.
La nueva ley obliga a las plataformas de redes sociales a tomar “medidas razonables” para impedir que los menores de 16 años tengan una cuenta. Aplicar esta restricción será complicado.
The case largely echoes an antitrust action in the United States and seeks to force Google to sell off sections of its online ad business.
The law sets a minimum age for users of platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X. How the restriction will be enforced online remains an open question.
Regulators are demanding information from the company on its cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products.
It’s the final frontier in digital expressions of coupledom. But for some people, it’s always going to be creepy.
Daisy Harris, una abuelita inglesa generada por inteligencia artificial, ha molestado a los estafadores con conversaciones que les hacen perder el tiempo. ¿Podrá hacer mella en la oleada de fraudes?
Los modelos del lanzamiento contienen el chip informático más avanzado fabricado en China e incorporan funciones de inteligencia artificial.
The Silicon Valley company will receive less money from the CHIPS Act after winning a $3 billion military contract and changing some of its investment commitments.
Such a move would help no one.
Or is the algorithm just hiding it from you?
Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, who put technology’s harms on the global agenda, reflected on a decade of taking on the biggest companies and what comes next.
Este lunes, los clientes de Microsoft no pudieron acceder a Outlook y Teams. Esto se debió a un “cambio reciente” en su software que había afectado a varios de sus servidores.
The software giant said it was working on a fix for the issue, which has affected the many companies that use Microsoft’s products. It later said it had fixed all affected services except Outlook on the web.
The two sides made their final cases to a federal judge Monday in a trial over the tech giant’s dominance in technology that sells ads online.
Daisy Harris, an A.I.-generated English granny, has been stymying scammers with meandering, time-wasting conversations. But can she actually make a dent in the flood of fraud?
The ruling by a federal judge, Leonie Brinkema, in an antitrust case over Google’s advertising technology could add to the internet company’s woes.
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
Ambas aplicaciones tienen un aspecto similar. A continuación te explicamos cómo utilizar Bluesky y qué podrías extrañar de X.
His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.
The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question.
Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.
La cercanía de Musk con el presidente electo Donald Trump podría tener una influencia significativa sobre la forma en que el gobierno federal interactúa con las empresas de Bezos.
Since last September, the tech giant has pumped $8 billion into the artificial intelligence start-up, a sign of intense competition in developing tools that are reshaping the tech sector.
The world’s two richest men are longtime business rivals, but now one of them has the ear of the next president of the United States.
The oil company was indicted on charges of dumping nearly 800,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Los Angeles County sewer system.
Don’t assume that highly educated foreigners will be spared by the new administration.
The apps look and feel similar. Here is how to use Bluesky and what you might miss from X.
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.