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.
OpenAI said the deal would help it “create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes A.I. creates.”
The European Union and national capitals are trying to make social media and algorithms less addictive and safer, especially for children.
Today’s spin on the idea of personal agency is convenient for tech C.E.O.s, who boast that their models work just fine without us.
Get ready for the return of wearables and a new stage in the fashion-tech relationship.
Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely.
The tech industry has predicted A.I. will profoundly affect the nature of white-collar work. The industry’s own workers are already getting a taste of that future.
Cuando tenía 14 años, Chris Espinosa empezó como demostrador de las computadoras hechas en la casa donde creció Steve Jobs. Medio siglo después, con 64 años, sigue en la empresa.
La empresa se ha comprometido a debutar en junio, y Musk aspira a recaudar entre 50.000 y 75.000 millones de dólares con la salida, dijo una de las personas familiarizadas con la compañía.
The man made multiple threats on Facebook and said that the law enforcement agents responding to arrest him would be killed, officials said.
Users who have been saddled with now-cringe email handles since the mid-2000s can now change them without losing any data under a policy Google announced on Wednesday.
The high-profile executive was a key figure in the company’s expansion into fitness technology and services.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo and other artificial intelligence companies hauled in $297 billion in funding in the first three months of the year.
An initial public offering of Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company would most likely be a generational wealth event and one of the largest offerings ever.
The former head of security for the messaging app, owned by Meta, had accused the social media company of putting billions of users at risk. A judge said there was not enough evidence that he was fired for his claims.
The term “high agency” is an ethos for a gambler’s time.
Un fallo judicial histórico en un caso de adicción en línea podría ser muy mala noticia para las grandes tecnológicas.
In 1976, 14-year-old Chris Espinosa rode a moped to his job demonstrating computers made in Steve Jobs’s childhood home. The company has changed a bit since then.
The start-up has raised a total of $122 billion in a funding round that values the company at $730 billion.
A landmark court ruling in an online addiction case could be very bad news for big tech companies.
What happens when a growing cohort of young people decide to ditch their devices?
The influx of fans during this month’s college basketball tournament is a welcome lift to the city’s casinos and hotels after a dismal 2025, when the number of visitors fell 7.5 percent.
Con nuevos cortes y bloqueos, el presidente Vladimir Putin da sus pasos más audaces hasta la fecha para controlar las comunicaciones de los rusos.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is lifting the ban on governmental use of the social media app, one of a handful that the mayor used to amplify his campaign messaging.
Indonesia says the two companies are violating its law that bars children under 16 from the social media. Australia has similar concerns.
As the Kremlin spends heavily on censorship technology, Russians are scrambling to find new ways to circumvent the limits.
With new outages and blockages, President Vladimir V. Putin is taking his boldest steps yet to control Russians’ communications.
With elite athletes like LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo as investors, the company, now valued at $10 billion, is courting everyday health enthusiasts.
With seeds, supplements and gadgets (but little expert guidance), Americans of all stripes are seeking wellness through what they eat.
A baffling overdose death took investigators to the frontier of ultra-potent synthetic drugs. The clues were hauntingly familiar.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.
States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on the technology even after the president ordered them to stop.
The embrace of crypto by financial regulators under President Trump has entered a new, cozier phase.
Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.
It makes no sense to me that billionaires would criticize others for trying to help their fellow humans.
Deberíamos plantearnos adoptar una postura tan firme contra los contenidos digitales ultraprocesados, en TikTok o Instagram, como la que ya adoptamos contra los alimentos ultraprocesados.
No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.
Neal Mohan on A.I. slop, parental controls and his platform’s impact on our lives.
Propaganda and disinformation have flooded the internet in a sophisticated effort to undermine support for U.S. and Israeli attacks.
As artificial intelligence takes on more and more tasks, tech executives are embracing teams as small as two: one person plus A.I.
Officials in Tehran and Washington alike are trading taunts in English, often using American pop culture references.
What appeared to be personal emails from before Mr. Patel’s time as director were posted on a website that identified itself as Iranian but seemed to be hosted in Russia.
Just as we changed our thinking around physical fitness, we need to change our attitude toward cognitive fitness.
The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks. Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries’ image as safe havens.
In a landmark case, a jury found Meta and YouTube guilty of creating products that were addictive. Ryan Mac explains the outcome and what it could mean for tech companies going forward.
The decision is an early victory for the artificial intelligence company in a rancorous legal battle with the Department of Defense.
The world’s largest crypto exchange is under fire after investigators found accounts moving $1.7 billion to Iranian entities. Clues about those accounts were in plain sight for over a year.
Tech companies are running into resistance from neighbors and may not be able to build at the pace they promised investors.
Regulators in Brussels accused the social media platform of maintaining a weak age-verification system, and steering younger users toward inappropriate experiences.
We are beginning an era where the social-media companies are finally held accountable for their harm.
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.
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.
Un jurado determinó que las empresas perjudicaron a una joven usuaria al diseñar productos que le crearon adicción y le provocaron trastornos mentales.
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.
The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.
For years, the company sold chip designs to other companies. Now it plans to sell its own chips for A.I. data centers.
Los nuevos bots de IA pueden hacer algo más que chatear. Pueden editar archivos, enviar correos electrónicos, reservar viajes y también causar problemas.
Democratic state attorneys general are fighting the Justice Department’s clearance of a $14 billion deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, arguing it was ineffective and corrupt.
Inside the image-obsessed subculture that is “looksmaxxing.”
Anxious tech workers in Silicon Valley are trying to cultivate a quality they say ChatGPT can’t provide.
The current restrictions on the internet in Iran are coinciding with Nowruz, the observance of the Persian New Year.
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
En la era de los agentes de IA, muchos desarrolladores de Silicon Valley apenas programan. En su lugar, están haciendo algo muy, muy extraño.
The verdict was a rare loss for Mr. Musk, who investors claimed had tried to drive down the share price of the social media company, now called X, to renegotiate his $44 billion offer.
Norris, best known as the butt-kicking star of action films, became an unwitting if good-natured pioneer of the internet meme.
At a number of companies, employees compete on leaderboards to show how much A.I. they’re using. They’re racking up big bills along the way.
A review of the betting market’s social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
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.
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.