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.
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.
The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder’s A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus.
People are using generative A.I. chatbots for help on everything from starting to ending a relationship. Have you? How did it turn out?
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
Tras salir de la cárcel en 2009, el abusador sexual contrató a varias personas para que pulieran su imagen en Google, Wikipedia y muchos otros rincones en la red.
Ride-hailing, dining and navigation apps you rely on at home may not be the best options in many countries. Here are local alternatives to download before you go.
New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble.
As the war has stretched into its third week, the Iranian government has blocked internet access for most of its 92 million citizens.
Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.
The tech giant has been rebuilding its relationship with the Defense Department and is poised to benefit as it sidesteps competitors’ controversies.
When previous commitments keep you from catching your team on television, keep up with it using free apps that quietly deliver scores and more to your phone.
In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable.
After years of criticism and financial risk, Palantir, Anthropic and small start-ups are generating rewards from their investments in defense tech.
While “Chinamaxxing,” users seem to be processing anxieties about the decline of their own country.
A recent surge of A.I.-related imports has become an impediment to the smaller trade deficit President Trump wants.
After he left jail in 2009, Mr. Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.
In a legal filing, the government said it questioned whether the A.I. start-up could be a “trusted partner” in wartime, which led it to label the company a supply chain risk.
The state accused Kalshi on Tuesday of operating an illegal gambling business, escalating the legal battle between states and prediction markets.
The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
The unusual video is the latest demonstration that artificial intelligence is undermining trust — even in footage that is authentic.
Excitement about A.I. assistant tools is running into growing concerns about the security risks of software that operates autonomously on user’s devices.
How ready are we?
In San Francisco, some passengers of autonomous taxis have experienced an unexpected hazard: being stuck in the vehicles when the cars are assaulted.
The violence is not a means to an end. It is the end.
Katie Drummond has transformed the publication into a bright spot for Condé Nast with aggressive political reporting.
There are active test runs in Texas, and a handful of companies are banking on making a big entry into the market as early as next year.
At the opening of the company’s annual conference, Jensen Huang leaned on technology from a recent deal to show how artificial intelligence is changing.
A Florida bill that would have regulated artificial intelligence, backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, failed to gain traction after President Trump made it clear he did not want states to rein in the technology.
Amazon y Google creen que los asistentes de inteligencia artificial como Alexa+ y Gemini acelerarán el proceso de instalación de una casa inteligente, pero quedan muchos problemas por resolver.
Don’t let the First Amendment arguments fool you.
A proliferation of data from wearable technology is telling people how to optimize their job performance. Is that a good thing?
A tech company made a deepfake of my mind. I’m fighting back.
The maker of Photoshop agreed to pay $75 million to the government, which had accused it of hiding details of expensive fees.
Amazon, Google and others struck deals in the Persian Gulf to foot the bill for A.I. development. Iran has now threatened attacks against the companies’ infrastructure in the region.
The K-pop supergroup’s upcoming reunion concert prompted a rush for the cafes, which offer solid connections and a sense of community.
Three apps and one website help travelers with a variety of disabilities identify potential obstacles, get audio descriptions in 185 languages and book custom trips.
The tech giant pushed back the timeline after spending billions to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided.
Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider.
Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes.
In television and movies, depictions of nihilistic billionaires and amoral opportunists are replacing the quirky strivers of older shows like HBO’s “Silicon Valley.”
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
The high schoolers fighting back against tech use.
Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop.
The fairy tale was 1990s New York.
Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.
Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.
We want to hear how artificial intelligence helps you with tasks like meal prep, translation and planning a trip.
Social media companies are under pressure to crack down on so-called deepfake videos that use deceptive images of real people.
Mounting evidence shows that excessive computer use can harm children, so parents are cutting back at home. Now, the debate has shifted to the classroom.
Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors.
Influencers have long hawked supplements on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Increasingly, the influencers are fake.
The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.
En un memorándum interno del año pasado, Meta dijo que el revuelo político en Estados Unidos distraería a los críticos del lanzamiento de la función.
No es exactamente volver a lo analógico, pero la gente que quiere alejarse del “streaming” dice que el viejo dispositivo de Apple es un pequeño paso para salir de estar constantemente conectado.
Beast Industries ha adquirido una aplicación similar a un banco para jóvenes y podría llegar a ofrecer diversos servicios financieros, incluidas las criptomonedas.
If decreasing dependence on our phones feels impossible, we might benefit from considering what we’d want to fill the space that they occupy.
A fight over Pentagon contracts shows how the leaders of Silicon Valley’s two most important A.I. start-ups are feuding over the future of the tech industry.
Negotiations, threats and amended contracts have left plenty of questions. Here are some answers.
Iran has launched waves of Shahed drones to menace Persian Gulf nations. The U.S. has unleashed its own copycat on Iran. It’s a sign of how war is changing.
Just look at his philosophical opinions.
The ban is to take effect March 28, according to a government minister, but details about how it would be carried out were scarce.
Anthropic has said it will sue the Defense Department over the designation, which could prevent the start-up from doing business with the U.S. government.
Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.
Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.
The world’s smartest technology is no match for the U.S. tax code.
Mr. Musk said he did not expect his posts in the lead-up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media site, now X, to affect the company’s share price.
Companies including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI committed to pay for the power plants and grid upgrades needed to run their data centers.
Los legisladores y el público chinos sienten entusiasmo por la IA, incluso cuando muchos en Occidente se preocupan por sus efectos sobre el empleo o la humanidad en general.
A bipartisan group of senators raised national security concerns about the chipmaker, which is now partly owned by taxpayers.
Is Block’s announcement just a convenient and flashy new cover for typical corporate downsizing?
Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry about the technology’s effects on employment or humanity in general.
Beast Industries has acquired a banklike app for young people and could eventually offer a variety of financial services, including crypto.
Clavicular is a symptom of a larger disease.
General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.
The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.
Palmer Luckey, who founded the defense tech start-up Anduril, has become the It Guy as President Trump aims to modernize the U.S. military with autonomous weapons.
Global officials are expected to closely examine the $111 billion deal, which ties together two entertainment powerhouses, over potential competition issues.
This could be a pivotal year in shaping what role artificial intelligence plays in American schools. Some families want Mayor Mamdani to hit the brakes.
The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.
It’s not exactly going analog, but people looking to move away from streaming say Apple’s old device is a small step away from constantly being online.
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.
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.