China Is Closing the A.I. Gap With the United States
In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they...
AlphaProof, a New A.I. from Google DeepMind, Scores Big at the International Math Olympiad
A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.
For Years, TikTok Told Us What to Buy. Now ‘Underconsumption Core’ Is About Consuming Less.
The trend of “underconsumption core” romanticizes buying and using only what you need. Yes, being normal...
X Uses Community Notes on Election Posts, but Misinformation Spreads
The social media company will use its Community Notes program to moderate lies about the election,...
Microsoft’s World of Warcraft Workers Vote to Unionize
The move adds more than 500 to the unionized video game staff at Microsoft, which has...
How US Chips Continue to End Up in Russian Missiles
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in...
He Was an Online Drug Lord. Now He’s a Crypto Entrepreneur.
After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things...
A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation
The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t...
Tesla’s Profit Fell 45% in the Second Quarter on Weak E.V. Sales
The company led by Elon Musk is selling fewer electric cars, and its big bets on...
Alphabet Reports 29% Jump in Profit as A.I. Efforts Begin to Pay Off
Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud...
Transportation Department to Investigate Delta After Flight Delays
Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, made the announcement after the airline suspended travel for unaccompanied minors.
G.M. Will Restart Cruise Taxi Operations
General Motors said the self-driving division’s cars will run in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix after an...
Mark Zuckerberg Stumps for ‘Open Source’ A.I.
The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the...
Far Right Spreads Baseless Claims About Biden’s Whereabouts
President Biden, who has been sidelined with Covid, is set to address the nation this week.
Congress Calls for Tech Outage Hearing to Grill CrowdStrike C.E.O.
The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify...
A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles With Math
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.
Google’s $23 Billion Plan to Buy Cybersecurity Start-Up Wiz Falls Apart
Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an...
In Silicon Valley, Where Trump Made Inroads, Democrats Are Now Invigorated
Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has...
Delta Cancels More Flights as It Struggles to Recover From Tech Outage
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg singled out the airline on Sunday for continued disruptions and “unacceptable” customer...
Corvette Bucked a Sports Cars Decline. Can It Thrive in an E.V. Era?
The General Motors sports car, which enjoyed strong sales after a big design change, now has...
What Happened to Digital Resilience?
With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn’t caused by an...
When Tech Fails, It Is Usually With a Whimper Instead of a Bang
While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple...
25 Million Watched Trump’s Speech at the R.N.C. on Thursday
Viewership peaked on Thursday night starting around the 15-minute mark of Donald Trump’s speech, as he...
What We Know About the Global Microsoft Outage
Airlines to banks to retailers were affected in many countries. Businesses are struggling to recover.
The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available...
Social Media Reacts to an Attempted Assassination; Tech Elites for Trump; and TikTok’s Jawmaxxing Trend
“The 2024 internet is just different than the internet we lived on four years ago.”
The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits
Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader...
Meta Said to Be in Talks for Minority Stake in Eyewear Maker
Meta is discussing taking a stake of as much as 5 percent of EssilorLuxottica, which makes...
Halloween in July? Welcome to ‘Summerween.’
Spookiness meets the heat in a holiday now gaining traction online.
Ford Will Make Gasoline Trucks, Not Electric Vehicles, in Ontario Plant
Ford will build large pickups at a Canadian factory that it had previously slated to produce...
A One-Man Telemundo on TikTok
Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in...
J.D. Vance’s A.I. Agenda: Reduce Regulation
Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick has indicated he favors a hands-off approach to A.I. but also wants...
How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Power
Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he...
Elon Musk Says He Will Move X and SpaceX Headquarters to Texas
The social media and rocket companies are based in California, which the billionaire criticized for its...
Is It Silicon Valley’s Job to Make Guaranteed Income a Reality?
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional...
In the Age of A.I., How Much Is Silicon Valley Prepared to Give Back?
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional...
Elon Musk Enters Uncharted Territory With Trump Endorsement
The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former...
The Gunshots Rang Out. Then the Conspiracy Theories Erupted Online.
Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that...
Google Close to Its Biggest Acquisition Ever, Despite Antitrust Scrutiny
The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the...
Electric Vehicles May Become Harder to Rent
Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they...
How Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Became Tech’s Steely Eyed A.I. Gambler
Microsoft’s all-in moment on artificial intelligence has been defined by billions in spending and a C.E.O....
A Reporter Who Sees Meaning in the Stars
As a science reporter, Katrina Miller covers the cosmos, innovations in physics, space exploration and more.
SpaceX Rocket Fails, Breaking Apart in Orbit
The failure, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for...
Saudi Arabia Extends Its Embrace of the World of Video Games
For struggling American video game companies, Saudi Arabia’s investments in the industry have been hard to...
Germany to Strip Huawei From Its 5G Networks
Major telecom companies agreed to stop using critical components made by Chinese companies in their mobile...
Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions
Answers to your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology.
How Biden’s Stumbles Collided With a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory
Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden....
This Documentary About Brian Eno Is Never the Same Twice
Thanks to a software program, the length, structure and contents of the movie are reconfigured each...
Biden Offers $1.7 Billion to Help Factories Build Electric Vehicles
A Jeep plant that closed last year will be among those that will benefit from federal...
