Alice Huang, who U.S. intelligence determined is a Chinese asset, emerged from the high-flying world of Shanghai finance to work with tech titans and obtain essential A.I. chips.
Governance experts question whether the board, which is investigating Mr. Huang’s conduct, has been too deferential as he has turned Nvidia into a global giant.
Nvidia planned to invest $10 billion in Anthropic alongside its initial public offering, the largest of the new financial commitments from several giants to the A.I. company.
Amazon and Google are the largest investors in the A.I. start-up, and their shares could gain hundreds of billions of dollars in value.
The A.I. company’s pricing would make it one of the biggest ever public listings. It comes at a volatile moment in markets, with investors questioning the sustainability of the A.I. boom.
Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about whether artificial intelligence can be conscious. Also: Justice in California; the White House ballroom.
President Trump on Monday said the Nvidia C.E.O. Jensen Huang told him he did not know that the businesswoman he was having an affair with was an operative for China’s government.
President Trump told reporters Monday that he believed Jensen Huang’s account and said he did not recall receiving a briefing warning him about Mr. Huang’s liaison.
As chips became essential components for A.I., executives like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang saw their personal wealth and profiles soar in a way the industry has not experienced before.
The chief executive has a tight grip on his company, presenting a challenge for Nvidia’s board, which is investigating his affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.
In the aftermath of this week’s midterm elections, the New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein spoke on the “Hard Fork” podcast about how data centers might have influenced results.
Artificial intelligence is the latest example of how Silicon Valley ruins great innovations with ridiculous theories about them.
The request came from Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, after Google said it would not turn off artificial intelligence tools for students using its search engine.
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of the A.I. chip company, admitted to a romantic relationship with a woman who U.S. intelligence says was recruited by China’s top spy agency.
Mr. Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for Chinese intelligence.
Jeffrey Wigand, who took on Big Tobacco, counsels insiders who think they have a story about wrongdoing. There are quite a few of them.
A trader placed well-timed bets on Polymarket and Kalshi in two Senate races. It was unclear if the person had access to inside information or simply made good trades.
As Microsoft pours billions into artificial intelligence, the company has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The work force was already on edge.
A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.
This week on “Hard Fork,” Ezra Klein, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, joins the show to discuss the midterm election, including voter concerns about A.I. and data centers.
Decades after the computer industry moved on, federal officials plan to finally ground the once-vaunted tech relic at the nation’s air traffic control centers.
Videos on social media often save key details for the end. One content creator, who goes by Heyitsyoon, skips the filler so viewers don’t have to wait.
Many donated money to President Trump’s favored causes and became his allies. Now that political alignment may be a liability.
Some call him a doomer. Others see him as a responsible technologist. Here’s how the Anthropic chief executive’s thinking on artificial intelligence was shaped.
The New York Times reported last week that Mr. Huang had a close relationship with an executive that U.S. officials determined was funneling information to Chinese intelligence.
Separate lawsuits were filed by Google, Meta and TikTok, which have been battling a flood of claims that their services are addictive.
The artificial intelligence company pledged to be more collaborative with the communities where it is building its data centers.
A student made plans to end her life after chatting with Google’s artificial intelligence, a new lawsuit claims, amid mounting concerns about online harms to children.
E-book reader sales are soaring as consumers seek technology offering respite from social media and artificial intelligence hype. It’s even better in color.
After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology.
Fairshake, the major industry super PAC, spent $46 million on ads against the Democrat, Sherrod Brown, who won.
A.I. agents can make things easier. That’s not always a good thing.
This week on “Hard Fork,” the A.I. company Anthropic is getting ready to go public. As more and more investment dollars and the economy at large are wrapped up in these large A.I. companies, what’s at stake with this I.P.O.?
This week on “Hard Fork,” Max Read, guest host, and Erin Griffith, a tech reporter for The New York Times, discuss how Anthropic’s upcoming I.P.O. is a rare chance to see the financials of a major A.I. company.
A Chinese start-up has developed a device that uses artificial intelligence and lasers to kill mosquitoes. But there are safety concerns for people and other creatures nearby when the device is in action.
Fans lined up for hours outside stores of Apple stores on Friday to buy the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable phone.
More than a million people have watched a 24/7 livestream of six newborn puppies in Finland. The cameras will roll until the pups go to their permanent homes in December.
More American workers are strapping cameras to their bodies to collect data in order to help train robots. The New York Times met with several of them to find out why, and what this could mean for the future of work.
On Monday, Meta released two new A.I. models as it tries to catch up with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.
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.