El nuevo navegador web Dia marca el inicio de una era de navegadores impulsados por la IA que podrían animar a la gente a probar algo nuevo.
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
Charmed by the introduction of a cow racer for the new Mario Kart World game, fans have made her the focus of videos that are surfacing in people’s Instagram and TikTok feeds.
En medio de los despidos en Microsoft y otras grandes empresas tecnológicas, los expertos debaten qué empleados tienen más probabilidades de salvarse, si los jóvenes o los experimentados.
The City Council is expected to pass a package of bills to include nearly 20,000 grocery delivery workers in legislation that improved working conditions for food delivery workers.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week.
A.I. is enhancing a time-consuming and stressful process, providing couples and planners with event suggestions, budgeting and many other useful tools.
The two giant video companies have far different strategies, but the same goal: controlling your TV set.
Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.
La gente de X dice que no te preocupes, que ya lo están arreglando.
The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.
A blaze on Thursday at one of Egypt’s main telecommunications hubs was extinguished, days after a larger fire there killed four people and disrupted internet, transport and banking services.
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
The folks at X say don’t worry; they’re on it.
El fabricante de chips de IA alcanzó el hito antes que Apple y Microsoft, ya que su valor se multiplicó por más de 10 tras el lanzamiento de ChatGPT a finales de 2022.
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.
Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems will face new obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are voluntary to start.
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
Al responder a una consulta sobre los comentarios de un usuario respecto a las inundaciones en Texas, el chatbot impulsado con inteligencia artificial elogió a Hitler.
Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.
Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
Mr. Williams was long considered a leading candidate to replace Tim Cook as the company’s next chief executive.
Parece inevitable que este entorno disuada a otras mujeres de alzar la voz.
The economics writer Kyla Scanlon on how attention has come to shape politics, our economy, Gen Z and more.
On a road trip from New York to Los Angeles (and back), a writer found digital tools that helped her navigate and find a cornucopia of “weird attractions.”
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.
You thought artificial intelligence was coming for your job? First, it’s coming for your job interviewer.
It seems inevitable that this environment will deter other women from speaking up.
Porn platforms just got what they deserved at the Supreme Court.
As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas.
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.
The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.
If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up.
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.
India está haciendo un esfuerzo para fabricar en su territorio. Desde 2020 el primer ministro Narendra Modi anunció una política de gobierno para impulsar la industria y destinó 26.000 millones de dólares a ello.
Language in the chamber’s spending bill says that state laws related to A.I. cannot pose an “undue or disproportionate burden” to tech companies.
Companies using A.I. tools to automate tasks like coding are changing job prospects for recent grads and college students. Tell us about your experiences.
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.
India is carving out a new space for Foxconn and other high-end manufacturers, just as President Trump demands American companies do at home.
Unas leyes vagas y radicales para frenar el contenido sexual en línea podrían censurar a quien quiera compartir información sobre el placer y la salud sexual.
A reporter who writes about A.I. finds her work is catching on — with the Chatbot she often writes about.
The tech titan and his wife once had sprawling ambitions for their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Now their efforts in politics, education and housing have been cut back to focus on science.
The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way to a black one.
And an internet without it is one that offers a pale shadow of human potential and possibility.
The 9-year-old from Vietnam was abused by her mother for customers watching on smartphone apps in the U.S. and elsewhere. The mother said she needed the money.
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”
The companies, which have been randomly locking out drivers to manage costs, must now give at least 72 hours’ notice before blocking access to the apps.
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, buy an autonomous vehicles start-up as the robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.
Plus, Jeff Bezos’ contentious wedding in Venice.
Además de que frustran el placer de leer por encima del hombro de un desconocido, dan una falsa sensación de privacidad.
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.
Plus, the 100 best films of the 21st century.
Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.
Instead of asking which future is coming, we should be asking which future we want.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.
The liberal advocacy organization said in a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry into boycotts with other advertising groups was “retribution.”
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.
Thwarting the joy of reading over a stranger’s shoulder.
Iranians managed to gain some unreliable connection to the internet on Friday after a near-total blackout that lasted four days.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
Americans experience massive amounts of envy. It has led us to think we lack something, even as our prosperity soars.
A number of companies are building A.I. apps for patients to talk to when human therapists aren’t available.
Ante los aranceles y el escrutinio en Estados Unidos y Europa, las marcas de consumo chinas apuestan por convertirse en nombres conocidos en la mayor economía de América Latina.
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy.
TikTok executives hosted happy hours and played pickleball with influencers on the French Riviera this week, even as a U.S. ban loomed over the company.
Two veterans of Comixology, a site that the e-commerce colossus bought in 2014, are now starting a rival to compete with it.
No podemos escapar de la influencia de la élite tecnológica, y ahora, en relatos como “Mountainhead” y “Careless People”, imaginamos que ellos no pueden escapar de nosotros.
When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse gases.
Mr. Musk says the driverless taxis could begin ferrying passengers on Sunday in Austin, Texas, where other companies already have similar cars on the road.
Iran’s state television urged people to delete WhatsApp, saying without evidence that the app was sending user information to Israel.
Los chatbots de inteligencia artificial se adentran en teorías conspirativas y apoyan sistemas de creencias místicos y descabellados. Para algunas personas, las conversaciones con esta tecnología pueden alterar profundamente su salud mental.
A self-guided walking tour explores the French Revolution in the City of Light.
The president plans to sign another executive order this week that would give the popular video app more time to change its ownership structure.
Ten Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the tech company this week asking about its expanding contracts under the Trump administration.
The debut of American Bitcoin, a mining firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has heightened the ethical concerns swirling around the Trump presidency.
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.
The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?
The major sports leagues are destroying one of our few remaining sources of shared community.
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.
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.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.
Self-checkout systems are intended to make shopping convenient, but they also can lead to more thefts, experts said.
Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.
In an aggressive turn, the normally staid @WhiteHouse account itemized hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic-related debt relief given to U.S. House members who criticized the Biden plan.
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The social networking company said that Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical misinformation.
Sales are down, but there is no need to pity the Chromebook.
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
How much we buy online affects the whole economy, but right now there are lots of question marks.
Not long ago, it seemed impossible to find a laptop. The pandemic has upended that, too.
A diet app helped writer Sam Anderson shed his extra Covid pounds — and reminded him that he was still his old self.
In many places, there is no system for sharing home test results with health officials, but the information may still be beneficial for public health.
In emails to workers at SpaceX and Tesla, Mr. Musk said they were required to spend a minimum of 40 hours a week in the office.
The contract workers are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs.
Plus North Korea’s Covid strategy and China’s expanding internet censorship.
The rapidly expanding practice, which authorities say helps combat disinformation from abroad, has fueled a whole new type of online battle.