The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.
The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.
As Apple prepares to release new iPhones this week, industry veterans shared their predictions for what will be the next big thing in personal computing.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the former head of security for the messaging app accused the social media company of putting billions of users at risk. Meta pushed back on his claim.
Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.
Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.
A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.
The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
Tesla’s board unveiled a compensation package for the chief executive that could be worth $900 billion if he meets ambitious targets.
He and a partner made their co-working locations feel like private clubs. Among his other ventures, he sought to slash the cost of in vitro fertilization by using robotics and A.I.
A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.
The e-commerce giant is ending a program that let Prime members share free shipping with a family member who lives somewhere else. Here’s what to know.
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.
A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.
The technology seems to be everywhere these days. We’ll find experts to answer your questions.
The two PACs reflect a new level of political engagement by companies like Meta and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, which are spending heavily on artificial intelligence.
Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.
Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn.
The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real frustrations with technology, has become a go-to slur against artificial intelligence and robots.
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.
The trillions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into new data centers are starting to show up in economic growth. For now, at least.
Electric models from the luxury car brand have been very successful, but they may struggle once a $7,500 federal tax credit ends next month.
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
Apps from Google, Apple and other companies let you customize your content so you’re always up to date on the matters you care about most.
The new artificially intelligent Pixel can help people streamline certain tasks. But that efficiency may not be worth the data you give up, our reviewer writes.
The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for its chips should continue this quarter.
It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.
After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket company splashed down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
Weather interfered on Monday night with the ability of Elon Musk’s company to show it could overcome setbacks faced by its Starship prototype.
The “Panama Playlists” exposed the Spotify listening habits of some famous people — and two journalists who didn’t know as much about protecting their privacy as they had thought.
Elon Musk’s company will reschedule the next trip of its Starship prototype, which faced setbacks in its last three flight attempts.
A clever leak exposed the music habits of some famous people — and two Times journalists.
FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, said he plans to ask the Trump administration’s permission to sell a more powerful chip to Chinese companies.
The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was regularly subjected to humiliation and abuse on Kick, a streaming platform.
His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence.
In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary idea: to create a place where women could find a work-life balance.
At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.
A.I.-powered tools can help you plan trips, squeeze value out of loyalty programs and translate languages. But don’t give up Google Flights just yet.
Federal officials are considering the move because Intel, the last leading-edge chipmaker in the United States, has been struggling.
The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.
Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents.
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.
The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.
President Trump has become the semiconductor sector’s leading decision maker, from new fees on exports to China to a brief demand for a C.E.O.’s firing.
Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, capping a spectacular fall from grace.
Oracle’s co-founder and the world’s second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute and for-profit ventures to address health, hunger and climate change.
The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation utilities paid to owners of home solar systems for the electricity they sent to the grid.
The A.I. start-up said its new flagship technology was faster, more accurate and less likely to make stuff up.
Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say, but does pose technical challenges.
The pledge was a “significant acceleration” of the company’s plan for more production in the United States, according to a White House statement.
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.
In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the technology with outside researchers and businesses.
The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the home of companies like Meta and Google.
It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies.
“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.
The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing to block WhatsApp and Telegram.
Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.
The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2 billion this year.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.
The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.
Figma, which makes a design platform, was on the verge of a big payday before regulators quashed the sale. On Thursday, it went public, with its stock ending the day up 250 percent.
Mr. Zuckerberg made his comments about the hypothetical artificial intelligence as Meta posted a 36 percent quarterly increase in profit and a 22 percent jump in revenue.
The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier. Experts raised concerns about privacy and security.
Apps promising to swiftly ease jet lag have proliferated. We traveled to the other side of the globe and back to see if they made a difference for a long-haul journey.
A new Earth-observing satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, will be sent into orbit on Wednesday.
Although the aerospace company lost money in the second quarter, it built and sold more planes as it recovered from quality crises and a workers strike.
Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.
Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according to new research.
With executive orders and an “A.I. Action Plan” to promote American dominance of the technology, President Trump declared that the United States needed to win the A.I. race.
His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more.
Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, following a playbook that worked well against social media platforms.
A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.
“Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”
Meta said political advertising would end in October, citing a forthcoming E.U. regulation that it said presented “unworkable requirements.”
The Silicon Valley chip company, which has been struggling, quantified the job cuts it is making as it seeks to turn its business around.
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In the Biden era, the government feared AI models would guide the spread of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. President Trump signed an order on “Preventing Woke A.I. in the Federal Government.”
Elon Musk has said that robotaxis are the company’s future, but most revenue still comes from cars.
The F.B.I. had raided the home of Jesse Powell in 2023 as part of an investigation into claims that he hacked into the online accounts of a nonprofit.
The technology giant had accused the British mogul, who died last year when his yacht sank, of fraud in the sale of his company in 2011.
The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla’s role in a 2019 accident that killed a woman in Florida.
The Commerce Department plans to impose a 93.5 percent levy on Chinese graphite, an essential ingredient in the batteries that power electric vehicles.
After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary legislative objectives and made progress toward a second one.
Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.
“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring to itself as MechaHitler.”
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
A federal judge said Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whom President Trump fired from the Federal Trade Commission in March, was still a “rightful member” of the agency.
The House is set to vote on a series of high-stakes bills backed by the cryptocurrency industry, after top Republicans brokered a deal with a group of dissenters in their ranks.
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Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s chief executive, is trying to balance his company’s interests as the United States and China compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence.
Trump administration officials say winning the artificial intelligence race with China is a top priority.
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 Silicon Valley chip giant said the Trump administration, which had shut down its sales to China three months ago, had assured it that licenses for the sales would now be granted.
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.
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
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.
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
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.
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.
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of the administration’s budget plan on the kind of studies that produce the most breakthroughs.
Makers of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems face obligations for transparency, copyright protection and public safety. The rules are not enforceable until next year.
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.
A person or people imitating the secretary of state used artificial intelligence to send text and voice messages to foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, the department said in a cable to employees.
You thought artificial intelligence was coming for your job? First, it’s coming for your job interviewer.
Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are most likely to be spared.
President Trump has declined to enforce a statutory ban of the popular social media app while his administration negotiates a deal for an American company to acquire it.
Airlines and governments around the world have tightened restrictions on the devices after a series of accidents. The ban in China has caught some travelers off guard.
As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas.
If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up.
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could end with the phasing out of tax incentives for clean energy.
More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.
To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology experiment questions. It now answers questions much like we do.
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.
The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a tightening job market at big technology companies.
The company has devoted resources to autonomous driving rather than developing new models to attract car buyers.
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter, a start-up focused on the future of work.
India is carving out a new space for Foxconn and other high-end manufacturers, just as President Trump demands American companies do at home.
A reporter who writes about A.I. finds her work is catching on — with the Chatbot she often writes about.
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 over-the-top party in the photogenic Italian city mixed Hollywood, Silicon Valley and political overtones.
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.
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.”
Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers. His death was announced in a recorded video.
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.
Ads for consumer A.I. are struggling to imagine how the product could improve your day — unless you’re a barely functioning idiot.
Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.
Videos and projections depicting an A.I.-generated actor, the digital memories of robots, a redwood forest and more: High-tech storytelling is having a moment.
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.
Ford Motor said it would open a new plant in Michigan that could become ineligible for federal incentives under a policy bill championed by President Trump and passed by the House.
Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
The vehicles will have safety monitors and may not operate in bad weather, making them more restricted than the fully autonomous vehicles promised by Elon Musk.
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.
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.
Automakers and car buyers are taking a second, harder look at hybrids after leaving them behind for electric vehicles.
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.
“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a Taylor Swift album.”
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.
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.
The bill was a significant step toward giving the cryptocurrency industry the credibility and legitimacy it has sought, without limitations it has worked to head off.
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.
The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work of its expert meteorologists.
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of Natural History. But other galaxies await.
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the talk of Silicon Valley.
“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more likely to work — and not just for Teslas.
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries to catch up to a growing field of artificial intelligence rivals.
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for fans of the two-in-one console.
President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week. Mr. Trump has said that he has no interest in repairing the relationship with his former adviser.
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible.”
Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.
Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation.
The self-driving taxi company also said its vehicles were in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles after protesters set fire to several of the cars there.
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.
Mr. Musk’s Starlink has brought the internet to some of South America’s most remote places. But Bolivia is shunning it, even as many there are desperate for better service.
The New York Times studied videos of addresses posted online, including those by President Trump, Kermit the Frog and a slew of celebrity speakers. Here is a look at key themes that emerged.
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.”
Already suffering from steep declines in sales and profit, the carmaker could now face the president’s wrath.
Elon Musk has said that he used ketamine as a treatment in the past, but he denied reports that he was taking it frequently and recreationally.
“We’re having a broligarchy blowup of the highest order.”
If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.
In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement for data and had unjustly enriched itself at Reddit’s expense.
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.
Google Maps and Apple’s Maps app offer location-based directories and other tools for finding new places to explore, before or after you hit the road.
The tech executive criticized the president’s legislation in a series of posts on Tuesday, signaling a widening rift with Republicans.
As Mr. Musk steps away from Washington, he faces concerns over his prolonged absence from his businesses including Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and X.
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.
Some restaurateurs are starting to explore ways A.I. can help them create recipes, menus and dining experiences.
AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches.
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.
“The job market is not looking great for young graduates.”
The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution?
A judge queried lawyers during closing arguments on Friday about how future competition should factor into his decision, which is expected by August.
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems.
The state’s governor signed a new law that will give parents more control over the apps that minors download, part of a raft of new legislation.
