Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.
Algunos países se esfuerzan por no quedarse fuera de la carrera de la inteligencia artificial. Pero esta elección conlleva consecuencias.
La compañía está intentando crear almacenes que requieran pocos humanos. Documentos internos revelan que su equipo de robótica tiene el objetivo de automatizar el 75 por ciento de sus operaciones.
Some countries are trying hard not to be left out of the race for artificial intelligence. But this choice comes with consequences.
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
Drivers will be able to converse with an artificial intelligence assistant while cars largely drive themselves in certain situations, the company said.
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.
Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.
The fascination with China’s ability to build things America struggles with, from bridges to advanced tech, risks a dangerous miscalculation about what drives China.
The new browser, called Atlas, is designed to work closely with OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
As the Kremlin throttles WhatsApp and Telegram, the new MAX messaging app is moving Russia closer to a restricted internet without foreign technology.
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
A medida que las empresas tecnológicas construyen centros de datos en todo el mundo para hacer avanzar la inteligencia artificial, las comunidades vulnerables son afectadas por apagones y escasez de agua.
El país sudamericano ha atraído inversiones, ha fomentado el talento y está desarrollando capacidades en materia de IA. Muchos chilenos, que ven la inteligencia artificial con recelo, se preguntan si vale la pena.
Amazon Web Services, uno de los principales proveedores de servicios en la nube para empresas, dijo que la mayoría de operaciones se había restablecido después de que un problema causó fallos en muchos sitios web.
Major services were having issues, including WhatsApp, the official website for the British government and the payment app Venmo.
In San Francisco (of course), a gathering over wine and cheese to practice the art of interacting with artificial intelligence.
Smartphones are becoming casinos. Trump, whose son is invested in the industry, is only goosing the business.
As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.
Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?
Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said it was working to resolve an issue that appeared to be affecting websites.
Trying to find purpose in an endless scroll of A.I.-generated videos.
Attacks on the site are piling up. Its co-founder says trust the process.
El contenido original y espontáneo, compartido por personas de todo el mundo, hizo de internet un lugar divertido. Ahora todo es más complicado.
While some art institutions are eagerly engaging artificial intelligence, others are less enthusiastic.
The growing availability of low-cost air quality sensors is helping people across the world track air pollution.
People have used its Sora video app to create vulgar and sometimes racist depictions of the civil rights leader.
New revelations about efforts by his company, Salesforce, to work with the Trump administration is getting heat from San Francisco officials and now allies.
Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.
Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection.
In Beijing this week, the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, made promises similar to ones he’d made at the White House. He also got a custom Labubu.
Andrew Stanton, 38, was charged with threatening federal law enforcement officers, whom he said should be shot. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody.
The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco’s residential rents up by the most in the nation, as A.I. companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees.
They’re not just for missing pets or yard sales. Fliers these days are for internet memes, self-promotion and extremely esoteric messages.
Generative A.I. can do many things human beings can do. But that misses the point about how A.I. can truly benefit us.
The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.
The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.
The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.
We are paying a tremendous political and psychological cost for access to social media.
The A.I. boom is likely a speculative bubble. Like the dot-com bust and the housing crisis, its pop is going to hurt.
Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, said a firm once owned by her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, spread misinformation about opioids. His campaign has threatened to sue her for defamation.
After signing multibillion-dollar agreements to use chips from Nvidia and AMD, OpenAI plans to deploy its own designs next year.
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
It’s too good to be true, and I’m OK with that.
Qantas Airways said criminals stole nearly six million of its customer records in July as part of an attack on companies around the world.
A telecommunications blackout and restrictions on social media have further isolated Afghans who rely on the internet as a lifeline.
Peter Jackson, the chief executive of Flutter Entertainment, FanDuel’s parent company, is fighting for attention as online gambling spreads across the United States.
El concepto de “compra ahora, paga después” ha creado una nueva y delirante cultura del consumo, y ha sumergido a los usuarios en un profundo mar de deudas.
En julio, la empresa de inteligencia artificial del multimillonario presentó dos chatbots sexualmente explícitos, con lo que impulsa una nueva versión de intimidad.
From game theory to incels, how everything got ‘-maxxed.'
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
Spontaneous original content, shared by people all over the world, made the internet a fun place to be. It’s more complicated now.
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.
The centerpiece of the company’s comeback hopes is a multibillion-dollar facility in the Arizona desert. Will it draw new customers?
Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.
Sora, la nueva aplicación de OpenAI para generar videos, es en realidad una red social disfrazada que puede llevar la IA creativa a las masas. Y también sus problemas.
A conversation with our tech columnist Kevin Roose about an A.I.-generated video of him on a date with a robot.
As the daily grind becomes “gamified,” players are nostalgic for older, more chaotic versions of the life simulation game
Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say.
‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.
In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
The artificial intelligence giant just announced a major partnership with AMD — weeks after striking a big deal with the chipmaker’s competitor, Nvidia.
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
This is worse than putting all your eggs in one basket.
Una nueva función de los iPhones filtra las llamadas, de forma similar a una tecnología disponible para los usuarios de Android. Aquí te explicamos cómo activarla.
Prediction markets like Kalshi, once known for offering wagers on elections, are now in the multibillion-dollar sports betting business and outside the reach of state regulations and taxes.
The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk.
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.
Un movimiento se propone averiguarlo.
Are you playing the technology or is the technology playing you? In a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” the musician Brian Eno and the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein discuss how generative A.I. changes our relationship with agency.
The president’s decision to charge employers $100,000 per visa for skilled workers seemed to come out of nowhere. But the grievance behind it has been simmering.
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.
Surging interest in artificial intelligence is generating huge gains for Chinese tech stocks like Alibaba, which has more than doubled this year.
Trump administration officials have issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents.
With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held company, surpassing the rocket maker SpaceX.
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.
A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.
Nearly two years into the conflict, social media is increasingly capturing the day-to-day toll in Gaza, as U.S. public opinion on the war shifts.
The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.
Internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday after a two-day nationwide blackout that paralyzed the economy and grounded planes. The Taliban government gave no reason for the outage, or the resumption of services.
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
A nationwide internet outage in Afghanistan has made it nearly impossible for people to communicate with one another or the outside world and has disrupted banking services and aid distribution.
Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.
Banking services have stopped, planes are grounded and aid distribution has been halted. The scope of the blackout is rare, even for a government that has increasingly rolled back freedoms.
The company is facing similar lawsuits in federal and state courts from people who claim their drivers sexually assaulted or harassed them.
OpenAI said parents can set time and content limits on accounts and receive notifications if ChatGPT detects signs of potential self-harm.
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
In-game betting is predicted to grow to more than $14 billion by the end of the decade. It’s a huge part of the sports gambling industry. Public health officials worry that it could be increasing the risks for gamblers.
La combinación numérica se refiere a un horario de trabajo de 9 a. m. a 9 p. m., seis días a la semana, que tiene su origen en el ambiente tecnológico chino.
Mr. Trump had sued Alphabet, the parent of YouTube and Google, and other social media companies after the platforms suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
The chairwoman of the House subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology and government innovation demanded information of Uber over its safety practices related to sexual assault.
Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
The shutdown came two weeks after the ruling Taliban cut off the internet in half a dozen provinces, saying they wanted to prevent “immoral acts.”
As the industry embraces A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
A campus movement aims to find out.
A.I. feels like a runaway train. But we don’t have to let it run over us.
Si bien la IA de hoy puede fingir empatía, una IA superinteligente no necesitará molestarse con los deseos humanos.
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and the roles of students and parents. Also: Infants and screens; prizes for the president.
As another classical music season gets underway, we — players, listeners and promoters — should consider the treasure of deep immersion into music.
The number combination refers to a work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — that has its origins in China’s hard-charging tech scene.
Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.
Reliance on fossil fuels is almost unavoidable — at least for now.
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.
El auge de la IA, que ha hecho que los expertos en tecnología regresen en masa a la ciudad, ha impulsado un resurgimiento de los eventos en vivo que, a veces, cobran tintes futuristas.
A judge’s remedy for the company’s illegal monopolization of search may worsen the problem.
Spruce Pine, N.C., supplies the world’s highest-purity quartz, a mineral that keeps the A.I. revolution afloat. What are the consequences?
El caso se centraba en la idea de los “patrones oscuros”, es decir, si el diseño de un sitio web dirige conscientemente a los clientes hacia suscripciones que realmente no desean.
The United Nations announced a new “global dialogue on artificial intelligence governance,” and a new global A.I. panel on the technology’s risks and rewards.
The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese investors for a U.S. version of the app.
Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”
The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system.
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok for a small fee.
The app should be required to provide searchable databases so propaganda campaigns can be tracked.
Believing artificial intelligence is magic is just as baseless as believing photographs can capture spirits. That’s not stopping people.
The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its finances as it looks to turn around its ailing business.
Speaking at The New York Times’s Climate Forward event, the chief sustainability officers of Microsoft and Google said that their goals to achieve net-zero emissions or better by 2030 are still achievable.
Christopher Chung, who plays the I.T. whiz Roddy Ho on the Apple TV+ series “Slow Horses,” also works as a personal trainer. In the show’s new Season 5, he’s at the center of the action.
While “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC on Tuesday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has promised to continue his campaign against what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.
Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own.
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.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.