The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation.
The feeling of efficiency should be mistrusted.
Contar los minutos es una mala forma de frenar los hábitos telefónicos. He aquí los verdaderos antídotos, según los expertos.
Even before the rocket company holds a major initial public offering, many people own stock in it through so-called special purpose vehicles.
La fantasía de los hackers se hizo realidad cuando el nuevo modelo de IA de Anthropic demostró que podía detectar vulnerabilidades de software.
In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.
The Silicon Valley company, which is undergoing a chief executive transition, also reported a 19 percent increase in profit.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
The data analysis company is selling a version of the jacket that it says will show its commitment to “re-industrializing America.”
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.
Counting minutes is a poor way to curb phone habits. Real antidotes, experts say, include mindful parenting, curated content and human connection.
Gemini is a digital Swiss Army knife for planning flights, activities and routes, but it isn’t perfect. Why did it forget to put underwear on the packing list?
In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said he was misled by the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.
In partnership with Expedia, the ride-booking, food-delivering, package-transporting service takes another step toward becoming a super app.
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.
From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.
European Union regulators said the company did not have effective controls to check a user’s self-declared date of birth, in violation of an online safety law.
In the trial’s first day of testimony, Elon Musk said greed led co-founder Sam Altman to pull the A.I. lab away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI says that’s nonsense.
La demanda de Musk contra Altman y OpenAI demuestra que la codicia total es el rasgo definitorio de Silicon Valley.
Irreverent tributes filled with unvarnished truths and funny anecdotes, which run counter to more somber traditional obituaries, have gained attention for “how alive they feel,” a researcher said.
The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.
Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.
Mr. Musk’s posts on X have pushed his narrative that OpenAI has lost its way.
Social media helped put Trump over the top. What’s A.I. going to do to us?
From beauty influencers to the token political opposition, Russians are openly questioning President Vladimir V. Putin’s moves to hamstring access.
Nobody can afford to be relaxed about their digital security anymore.
Mr. Musk’s lawsuit against Mr. Altman and OpenAI makes the case that all-encompassing greed is Silicon Valley’s defining feature.
A new report found hundreds of thousands of scam ads for medical products, some of which were illegal or had been deemed dangerous.
The widening movement is pulling in people from all walks of life, united by a worry that Big Tech will cash in while average Americans bear the costs.
The feed makes everything, bombs and nachos and the dead, weigh the same. Which is to say: nothing.
Oakland, Calif., where Elon Musk’s trial against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, starts on Monday, is not exactly known as a hub of the tech industry.
Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest financial partner, will continue to license the start-up’s technology but will no longer be its exclusive licensee.
The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant’s growing ambitions in video podcasts.
Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes.
Influencers jumped to fill the information void with conspiracy theories about the attack at the White House Correspondents’ dinner on Saturday.
The short answer: not really. The long answer: maybe with a little help.
Even a Times reporter qualified for the event, which caused outrage last year for providing access to President Trump in exchange for investment in one of his family’s crypto ventures.
The industry’s murky supply chain has long attracted scammers and con artists. In the words of one expert, “Wine and fraud go hand in hand.”
The country’s propaganda apparatus has harnessed artificial intelligence tools to reach a global online audience primed for irony, irreverence and trolling.
La IA siempre ha sido comparada con la inteligencia humana, pero quizá esa no sea la forma más adecuada de entenderla. Sus fortalezas permiten anticipar qué empleos podría sustituir.
El exdirector ejecutivo convirtió a Apple en un gigante, pero lo hizo arriesgando la seguridad económica y política de Estados Unidos.
Nuevas tecnologías de monitoreo ayudan a los adultos mayores a recordar que tomen sus pastillas o a entablar conversaciones con un robot mientras aligeran la carga para los cuidadores que no pueden estar siempre con ellos.
The investment comes as the A.I. start-up looks to keep up with accelerating demand for its business and coding products.
John Ternus will face many of the same issues that Tim Cook has grappled with for years.
Mr. Altman, who has faced criticism over OpenAI’s direction, has culled company projects and is trying to be more disciplined with strategy.
The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.
Chinese companies have embraced making their most advanced artificial intelligence models available to all.
The chip maker reported a 7 percent rise to $13.6 billion in its latest quarter, more than $1 billion more than Wall Street expected.
The tech giant is offering long-serving employees early retirements as it continues to invest aggressively in artificial intelligence.
The layoffs affect about 8,000 employees, with Meta also planning to close 6,000 open roles, as the company focuses on artificial intelligence.
The maker of ChatGPT is taking a more open approach to cybersecurity than its chief rival, Anthropic.
A jury trial that is set to start on Monday could shift the course of the A.I. race, with Mr. Musk seeking billions of dollars in damages from Mr. Altman’s OpenAI.
Tim Cook made Apple a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America’s economic and political security.
La conmoción por Mythos se produce en un momento en el que existe una mínima cooperación internacional en materia de IA. No existe un equivalente del Tratado sobre la No Proliferación de las Armas Nucleares, ni inspecciones compartidas, ni normas acordadas.
Justin Sun, one of the largest backers of World Liberty Financial, sued the Trump family’s crypto start-up, accusing it of a fraudulent scheme to pressure him into buying digital coins.
Mythos has triggered emergency responses from central banks and intelligence agencies globally, as Anthropic decides who has access to the powerful model.
Artificial intelligence tools are making it faster than ever to reproduce creative work. Does copyright even matter anymore?
As SpaceX prepares to go public, Mr. Musk has proposed moonshots that differ from the company’s original aim of reaching Mars.
Ben Riley, quien escribe un boletín sobre los riesgos de los chatbots, no supo qué hacer cuando su padre empezó a confiar en la inteligencia artificial para manejar su diagnóstico de cáncer.
The unassuming look of the outgoing Apple chief executive was an asset, as he navigated pop culture, the president and following Steve Jobs.
The attack against Sam Altman reflects how badly Silicon Valley needs to address the societal consequences of its products.
If the Steve Jobs era was defined by technological innovation, the Tim Cook period was one of exceptional financial growth.
John Ternus, an Apple veteran who runs hardware engineering, will take over an extraordinarily profitable company in need of new ideas.
Most prisons forbid online access. But inmates are finding ways to ask chatbots questions anyway.
Tim Cook said on Monday that he would step down as the chief executive of Apple after nearly 15 years. John Ternus, the head of Apple’s hardware engineering, will take over in September.
El líder del fabricante de los iPhone será sustituido por John Ternus, jefe de ingeniería de hardware de la empresa.
Anthropic also committed to spending $100 billion on Amazon technologies that can help build and deploy A.I. systems.
Apple’s corner office has been a seat from which executives like Steve Jobs changed how we interact with technology.
The longtime leader of the iPhone maker will be replaced by John Ternus, the company’s head of hardware engineering.
The state claimed the e-commerce giant pressured brands like Levi’s and Hanes to ask competing retailers to raise prices on certain products.
Critics say Iran may be creating a “tiered internet” model, where access is limited to the politically and economically privileged.
Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool rather than the source and summit of education.
Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.
The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings.
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.
Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But the nascent industry’s proponents say they are thinking in decades, not years.
En la carrera por poner parches en los agujeros de ciberseguridad encontrados por los modelos de IA más recientes, corremos el riesgo de dejar a demasiadas personas a su suerte.
On the social internet, our fascination with analyzing the hidden messages in our culture has been flattened into one word.
What a shift in the dating preferences of younger men reveals about our changing norms.
Once held up as a key solution to climate change, a field that aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere is struggling to catch on.
The British prime minister will meet with executives from Meta, Google and other companies on Thursday as his government explores how to protect children from online harms.
In the race to patch up cybersecurity holes found by the newest A.I. models, we risk leaving too many people to fend for themselves.
Doug Field, a former Tesla and Apple executive, had returned to Ford Motor in 2021 to help develop new electric models and software.
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.
The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increased its reliance on artificial intelligence.
The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
Recipe apps and artificial intelligence can give you a boost, but free tools already on your device can also assist with meal planning and preparation.
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.
New tools tailored for use in senior living communities allow for shared experiences and social bonding.
The maker of ChatGPT announced the limited release of GPT-5.4-Cyber, a technology designed to find security holes in software.
The e-commerce giant is buying Globalstar, a satellite communications company, as it aims to expand its own satellite internet service to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
In an era of agents powered by artificial intelligence, many programmers are barely programming.
What happens when your parent falls in love with an A.I. chatbot?
The authorities said a 20-year-old Texas man charged with throwing a homemade bomb at the gate of Sam Altman’s home had written at length about the threat of A.I.
American leaders should be trying to cooperate with China on A.I.
Nameless no more, writers for The Economist are mixing it up on video from its studio in London.
Ben Riley was already writing about the risks of chatbots when his dad started trusting A.I. over his doctor.
A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.
China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.
Tehran’s efforts have been underwhelming, but its conventional military successes have been significant enough that it may not matter.
Con los nuevos sistemas de empresas como Anthropic y OpenAI, los hackers pueden lanzar ataques con mayor rapidez. La defensa se basa cada vez más en la inteligencia artificial.
Con semillas, suplementos y dispositivos electrónicos (pero con poca guía de expertos), estadounidenses de todos los perfiles buscan mejorar su bienestar con lo que comen.
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about digital consumption. Also: A failure of leadership; deconstructing Trump-speak; “moon joy.”
“Adam Back ha declarado sistemáticamente que él no es Satoshi Nakamoto”, dijo su empresa en un comunicado. “Lo que no es especulativo es la contribución fundacional de Adam al bitcóin”.
We decided that filtering information was malicious. That didn’t mean we stopped doing it.
Shady hotel booking sites, misleading customer service numbers and hacked airline loyalty accounts have snared travelers. Here’s how to avoid getting scammed.
El creador de Bitcoin se ha ocultado tras un seudónimo durante 17 años. Pero un rastro de pistas enterradas en la historia del cripto conduce a un científico informático de 55 años llamado Adam Back.
The ruling was a setback for the artificial intelligence start-up in its battle with the Defense Department over the use of A.I. in warfare.
Amazon will cut the volume of packages it ships through the Postal Service by 20 percent under a tentative new deal that will preserve a crucial source of income for the agency.
The model, Muse Spark, performed better than Meta’s previous A.I. models but lags rivals on coding ability.
A.I. will further enrich the winners and impoverish the losers, with inevitable societal impacts.
Our investigative reporter John Carreyrou spent 18 months digging through the archives of online cryptography communities in search of the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.
Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin.
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is happening now.
The company said on Tuesday that it was holding back on releasing the new technology but was working with 40 companies to explore how it could prevent cyberattacks.
What was once discussed with a doctor is now frequently encountered first as decontextualized data on a screen.
The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.
¿Quién necesita más de dos empleados cuando la inteligencia artificial puede hacer tantas tareas empresariales? Es súper eficaz… y un poco solitario.
With new systems from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, hackers can attack with greater speed. The defense is more A.I.
Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness.
As fuel costs go up, making a living as a gig driver is harder than ever.
The astronauts traveling in the Artemis II spacecraft were allowed to take smartphones with them. Sadly, they can’t connect to the internet.
Radvinsky convirtió un diminuto sitio web llamado OnlyFans en una potencia del entretenimiento para adultos, redefiniendo el sector para la era de las redes sociales.
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
Strava logs all your fitness achievements — and then some.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
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.