The first-of-its-kind reserve would be anchored by a stash of Bitcoin the government already owns, estimated to be worth billions of dollars, the White House’s crypto czar said.
The ticket reselling site joins the social chat app Discord and the artificial intelligence company CoreWeave in pursuing a public offering.
One jackpot winner spent $25 million on nearly every possible number combination, while another bought tickets through a third-party app.
The newly appointed deputy director of the F.B.I. has a long history of criticizing the bureau and its leadership. He has promised “dramatic change.”
Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit lost $1.5 billion to North Korean hackers last month — and it all traced back to an account on a free digital storage service.
Under new rules from President Trump’s Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.
The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users.
Two people stand accused of taking hundreds of tickets from StubHub to redirect them to others who resold them, prosecutors said.
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
The court said that Elon Musk could proceed with other parts of a lawsuit he brought against OpenAI last year.
The Biden administration’s A.I. adviser Ben Buchanan discusses how the U.S. government is preparing for artificial general intelligence — and all the challenges that remain.
The announcement follows new fund-raising efforts from rivals like OpenAI, which is set to close a deal that values the company at $300 billion, and Elon Musk’s xAI.
The investment plan, announced at the White House, was made as the Trump administration pushes to bring chip making back to the United States.
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involved said. A meltdown could have crippled its campaigns nationwide.
No soy programador. Pero he estado creando mis propias herramientas de software con ayuda de la inteligencia artificial.
The company plans to move users of the pioneering service, which it bought in 2011, to Microsoft Teams.
Going case by case, regulators have halted investigations and withdrawn or paused lawsuits against top crypto companies and their executives.
Anna Lembke, psiquiatra y autora de “Generación dopamina”, quiere que encontremos el equilibrio en un mundo de tentación y abundancia.
The term, coined by a sociologist in the 1980s, refers to informal public spaces where people can linger — and some say they’re disappearing.
The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.
For today’s entrepreneurs, work isn’t merely a way to get things done; it’s also a “superpower” that confers the right to impose their vision on the world.
A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month. But this massive business of grift keeps growing.
Tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations have been trafficked to cyberfraud hubs in Myanmar, where they must con victims or endure brutal punishment.
The Silicon Valley company, which dominates the market for chips needed to build A.I. systems, said revenue was up 78 percent from a year earlier.
Amazon is aiming to catch up in generative artificial intelligence and to reboot its virtual assistant, which has been leapfrogged by powerful chatbots.
La mayor organización psicológica del país advirtió a los reguladores federales que los chatbots que se hacen pasar por terapeutas pueden animar a los usuarios a cometer actos lesivos.
The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue.
Musicians including Kate Bush and Billy Ocean released a “silent record” in outrage at a proposed change to British copyright law.
Martin Gurri discusses how social media and the internet have fundamentally changed the public’s relationship to institutions and power.
The CVS app is in use at three locations in Manhattan. It’s a mixed bag so far.
The payments, part of a settlement with the New York attorney general’s office over a practice that ended in 2019, will return as much as $14,000 to some workers.
The company pledged the multibillion-dollar investment over the next four years and said it would create 20,000 jobs. The Texas facility is set to open in 2026.
Chatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators.
Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft.
Musk no está actuando como un funcionario, sino como un ingeniero, que explota las vulnerabilidades de los sistemas de la nación.
Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data.
The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.
The end of a court fight with the largest U.S. crypto company would be a big win for an industry that financially backed President Trump.
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
An employee at the Technology Transformation Services told colleagues that he had resigned because he was asked to grant a Trump appointee access to a database used to text the public.
Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.
A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.
Lo más aterrador de lo que está haciendo el presidente Trump con su estrategia de aranceles para todos es que no tiene ni idea de lo que está haciendo.
El iPhone 16e es la primera actualización del modelo más asequible de la compañía desde 2022, pero tiene un precio más elevado: 599 dólares.
The iPhone 16e is the first update to the company’s most affordable model since 2022, but carries a higher price tag of $599.
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?
Humane, which marketed its Ai Pin as the next big thing after smartphones, had raised $240 million from investors, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The pin will be discontinued.
The scariest thing about what the president is doing with his tariffs-for-all strategy is that he has no clue what he is doing.
Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up.
Elon Musk’s team has only the powers that Congress gives it, or doesn’t give it — explicitly or implicitly, actively or passively.
Some tech companies are delaying or pulling their listing plans as the Trump administration’s tariff announcements and other changes cause market volatility and uncertainty.
Los conductores chinos compran vehículos eléctricos asequibles cargados de nuevas tecnologías, una tendencia que está redefiniendo los vehículos de gama alta y perjudicando a los fabricantes de automóviles alemanes.
Chinese drivers are buying affordable electric vehicles loaded with new technology, a trend that is redefining high-end vehicles and hurting German automakers.
Mail and phone calls may be archaic, but they have lessons for us on how to be better communicators.
The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation.
The vice president is in a tricky position as he looks for a deal to save the popular short-form video app, which is subject to being banned in the U.S. if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner.
The Silicon Valley giant is trying to cut a deal it hopes would help it pull out of a yearslong slump.
Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.” Mr. Musk is separately raising money for his A.I. start-up, xAI.
Experts shared five strategies to make things easier.
The social media company is attracting investor interest because of Elon Musk’s close ties to President Trump and a recent jump in revenue.
The popular social media app was removed to comply with a new law that banned it in the United States. President Trump has paused enforcement of the ban.
In an email to employees, the company’s chief executive said the company had become bloated during its growth in recent years.
In a court filing, Mr. Musk said he and other investors would pull their $97.4 billion bid if OpenAI withdrew its plan to change its structure.
In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.
President Trump and the network have used the phrase to suggest that his policies are the right ones and popular, though polling suggests otherwise.
Todo es contenido.
The social media site agreed to pay in the range of $10 million to settle with the president, who had sued over the suspension of his account in 2021.
The company answered the billionaire’s offer in a legal filing, accusing him of hypocrisy.
The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision.
When planning your estate, leave instructions for handling your online accounts, data and other electronic affairs.
Everything is content.
The Chinese start-up used several technological tricks, including a method called “mixture of experts,” to significantly reduce the cost of building the technology.
Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. Now, those businesses are accusing them of defamation.
Speaking in Paris at an artificial intelligence summit, the vice president gave an America First vision of the technology — with the U.S. dominating the chips, the software and the rules.
When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.
The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money.
At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
But many attendees at a summit in Paris worry that the risks of A.I. will be overlooked as the continent rushes to keep up with the United States and China.
China produces a vast number of STEM graduates, but it hasn’t been known for innovation. Cultural and political factors may help explain why.
The media company Lee Enterprises said a “cybersecurity event” had created havoc at dozens of its newspapers, prompting some to publish shorter editions or not print at all.
Elon Musk has helped bring an esoteric debate around the Delaware Chancery Court to a national stage. Now Dropbox and Meta are contemplating moving their incorporation away from the state.
What sports betting reveals about addiction.
After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country’s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.
In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).
An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.
The Southern California start-up, which builds flying drones and missiles, is set to raise up to $2.5 billion.
Much of the billionaire’s handiwork — gaining access to internal systems and asking employees to justify their jobs — is being driven by a group of engineers operating in secrecy.
The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would invest up to $40 billion in the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT.
After the arrival of a less costly A.I. model from China, U.S. markets and academics are wrestling with the ultimate economic value of the technology.
He was among the first backers of Apple Computer and 3Com, earning windfalls, but it was his humaneness that distinguished him from other venture capitalists.
The company’s cloud computing business showed strong growth, while a forecast for the current quarter disappointed investors.
Big Tech is looking to President Trump for a bailout.
Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger who died, was hired to join the firm’s American Dynamism investment team.
The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.
Among an array of pro-Trump personalities and media outlets, the president can do no wrong.
A news report says that Beijing is weighing an inquiry into the iPhone maker, underscoring Chinas options in fighting against President Trump’s tariff threat.
The fast expansion of Waymo’s driverless car service is growing competition for Uber. The companies are also partners.
This is not a Sputnik moment. It’s way past that.
Wall Street tiene un nuevo juego: adivinar quién será el próximo propietario de la aplicación.
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.
Has another autocratic regime ever taken away the right of so many people to lead a normal life?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
Reflecting on what worked and what didn’t.
In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.
Lawmakers’ objections to an obscure Chinese semiconductor company and tough Covid-19 restrictions are hurting Apple’s ability to make new iPhones in China.
The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
Hundreds of workers are said to have fled, afraid of being forced into quarantine with inadequate food and supplies.
Commutes are still painful, readers say. And it’s hard to give up the joys of working from home. But many of those who have gone back to the office say they like it.
El gobierno chino ha reprimido a muchas empresas tecnológicas pero permite las aplicaciones de citas que fomentan las conexiones sociales.