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The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.

The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

Sales of the company’s electric cars dropped in the first three months of the year, even as other automakers sold more battery-powered vehicles.

China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016 election, researchers and government officials say.

Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.

Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.

Federal prosecutors said the pair tried to sell technology to manufacture batteries for electric cars that belonged to the company.

As the share price plunges, investors wonder whether the company, led by Elon Musk, can withstand intensifying competition.

The bill, which would force TikTok’s Chinese parent to sell the popular social media app, faces a difficult path in the Senate.

With both parties eager to demonstrate a willingness to be tough on China, bipartisan legislation to force the Chinese owners of the platform to divest or face a ban was moving forward.

At a party for social media influencers at the White House this week, President Biden’s political concerns collided with his national security concerns.

New revelations underscore the degree to which China has ignored, or evaded, U.S. efforts to curb its extensive computer infiltration efforts.

Documents leaked on a public website show that China is hiring private hackers to obtain sensitive information from foreign companies and governments.

China has increasingly turned to private companies in campaigns to hack foreign governments and control its domestic population.

The disruption is part of a broader effort to stymie Russia’s cybercampaigns against the United States and its allies, including Ukraine.

A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China’s ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology.

A congressional committee made the demand of the Commerce Department after The Times reported on concerns among U.S. intelligence officials over the Emirati company, G42.