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New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

Deepfake of Baltimore Principal Leads to Arrest of School Employee
A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

How to Claim Your Part of a $5.6 Million Ring Settlement
The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

Alphabet's Revenue Jumps 15% to $80.5 Billion
Google's parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit
The tech giant's quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

Honda Commits to E.V.s With Big Investment in Canada
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

There Is No TikTok in China, Only Douyin. Here's What It Is.
ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company's cash cow and a China mainstay.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

TikTok Broke the Tech Law Logjam. Can That Success Be Repeated?
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

How a Pirate-Clad Pastor Helped Ignite Trump Media's Market Frenzy
Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

How Pastor Chad Nedohin Helped Turn Trump Media Into a Meme Stock
Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.

New York Times Tech
Apr 25, 2024

‘To the Future': Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Meta Says It Plans to Spend Billions More on A.I.
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Meta's Profits More Than Double, While Spending on A.I. Rises
The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp continued to grow, even as it said it would spend billions of dollars more on artificial intelligence.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law. Here's What Happens Next.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Inside Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Binance Founder Should Get 3 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say
Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

On TikTok, Potential Ban of App Leads to Resignation and Frustration
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

On TikTok, Resignation and Frustration After Potential Ban of App
While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Binance Founder Should Get Three Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say
Defense lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Elon Musk Clashes With Australian Court Over Violent Videos on X
Mr. Musk's defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Biden Signed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Here's What Happens Next.
President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

‘Thunder Run': Behind Lawmakers' Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Meta's A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can't Be Trusted
Despite Mark Zuckerberg's hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

The Meta-morphosis of Mark Zuckerberg
The robotic nerd depicted in "The Social Network" has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What's going on?

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork
A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family's grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.

New York Times Tech
Apr 24, 2024

Former Boeing Manager Says Workers Mishandled Parts to Meet Deadlines
Merle Meyers, who left Boeing last year after a 30-year career, said he was speaking publicly about his experience because he loved the company "fiercely."

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Here's What Happens Next.
After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.
After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing's hostility.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns
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.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

Tesla Earnings Report Could Add to Concerns About Its Strategy
Analysts expect first-quarter results to show a decline in profits, fueling worries that competitors will grab a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

G.M. Reports Big Jump in Profit on Gasoline Car Sales
General Motors has struggled with electric vehicles and in foreign markets but it is selling lots of combustion engine cars and trucks in North America.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Was Overwhelmed.
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Got Overwhelmed.
Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

In Silicon Valley, You Can Be Worth Billions and It's Not Enough
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

New York Times Tech
Apr 23, 2024

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren't necessarily what everyone needs.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

Nina Jankowicz Forms New Group to Defend Disinformation Research
The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over ‘Addictive' Features
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

FIFA Said to Be Close to TV Deal With Apple for New Tournament
The agreement would give the tech company worldwide rights for a monthlong World Cup-style competition between top teams set to take place next year.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn't have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.

New York Times Tech
Apr 22, 2024

States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes to Fight Sexually Explicit Images of Minors
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.

New York Times Tech
Apr 21, 2024

How Scam Calls and Messages Took Over Our Everyday Lives
To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.

New York Times Tech
Apr 21, 2024

‘Catfish,' the TV Show That Predicted America's Disorienting Digital Future
For 12 years, the MTV reality series "Catfish" has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.

New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

Start-Up Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud
Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.

New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

Tesla Will Recall Cybertruck in Latest Setback
A federal auto safety agency said the accelerator pedal on the pickup truck, sales of which began in late 2023, could become stuck, increasing the risk of accidents.

New York Times Tech
Apr 19, 2024

The Music Episode
"I feel like we've been at the club. I need some water and some electrolytes."

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Apple Says It Was Ordered to Pull WhatsApp From China App Store
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads in its China app offerings Friday on Beijing's orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter
The company's revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company's dominant streaming service.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Micron Will Receive $6.1 Billion to Build Semiconductor Plants
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

How a Crypto Compliance Officer Ended Up in a Nigerian Prison
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn't returned.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving'
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Meta, in Its Biggest A.I. Push, Places Smart Assistants Across Its Apps
Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta's latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

TikTok's Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass's firm.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter
Donald Trump's social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

New York Times Tech
Apr 18, 2024

Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel's government.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

TikTok Bill to Be Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel, House Speaker Indicates
A new measure attempts to force the Senate's hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app's sale.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

TikTok Bill Is Bundled With Aid to Ukraine and Israel
A House measure unveiled Wednesday attempts to force the Senate's hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app's sale.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Is Leaping Into Retirement
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Atlas, a Humanoid Robot Used for Research, Is Leaping Into Retirement
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data
In a first, the legislation extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk's $47 Billion Pay Deal With New Shareholder Vote
The company's directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company's registration to Texas, from Delaware.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk's $47 Billion Pay Deal After Judge Says No
The company's directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company's registration to Texas, from Delaware.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Rusty Foster Tracks Media Gossip From an Island in Maine
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city's media class.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Smartphone Backups
It doesn't take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone's photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.

New York Times Tech
Apr 17, 2024

The 2024 Paris Olympics Prepares For Cyberattacks
"We will be attacked," the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying "bug bounties" to hackers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 16, 2024

The Paris Olympics' One Sure Thing: Cyberattacks
"We will be attacked," the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying "bug bounties" to hackers.

New York Times Tech
Apr 16, 2024

Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Gulf.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Should You Use an Anti-Wrinkle Straw?
Another solution to a problem we didn't know we had.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

A.I. Has a Measurement Problem
Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there's no easy way to answer those questions.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Biden Administration Awards Samsun $6.4 Billion for Chip Production
The federal grants will support Samsung's new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Global Workforce
Along with the departure of a senior executive, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Workers
Elon Musk's electric car company reported a drop in sales in the first three months of the year, and its profit margin has been falling for months.

New York Times Tech
Apr 15, 2024

U.S. Awards Samsung $6.4 Billion to Bolster Semiconductor Production
The federal grants will support Samsung's new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Tell Us: Has Elon Musk's Behavior Affected How You View Tesla?
Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker's sales.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Despite the Watch World's Secrecy, Data Services Expand
Swiss brands and retailers now have a few options to determine what's happening with the industry. Just a couple of years ago, they had almost none.

New York Times Tech
Apr 12, 2024

Europe's A.I. ‘Champion' Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region's culture and politics.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Jackson Hinkle Rides Rage Over Israel to Prominence
Jackson Hinkle's incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Humane's AI Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.

New York Times Tech
Apr 11, 2024

Computer Theorist Wins $1 Million Turing Award
This year's honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness.

New York Times Tech
Apr 10, 2024

AI Chatbots Are Hiring Tutors to Train Their Models
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.

New York Times Tech
Apr 10, 2024

Now Hiring: Sophisticated (but Part-Time) Chatbot Tutors
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.

New York Times Tech
Apr 09, 2024

What Happened When a German Car Factory Went All Electric
Volkswagen's plant in Zwickau stopped producing Golfs and switched to electric vehicles, illuminating the risks and opportunities for factory towns and cities.

New York Times Tech
Apr 09, 2024

Beeper Messaging App Is Acquired as a Bet on a Regulatory Shift
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Tesla Settles Lawsuit Over a Fatal Crash Involving Autopilot
A Tesla driver's family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker's driver-assistance software was in use.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

New York Times Tech
Apr 08, 2024

Google to Tone Down Message Board After Employees Feud Over War in Gaza
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

New York Times Tech
Apr 07, 2024

Maryland Passes 2 Major Privacy Bills, Despite Tech Industry Pushback
One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people's safety and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.

New York Times Tech
Apr 07, 2024

In Battle Over Health Care Costs, Private Equity Plays Both Sides
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

What to Know About Tech Companies Using A.I. to Teach Their Own A.I.
As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to "synthetic data" — data made by the A.I. itself.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here's what to know.

New York Times Tech
Apr 06, 2024

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Is A.I. Already Taking Jobs? A Filmmaker Tries Sora The XZ Backdoor Caper
"I've always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very far in this life."

New York Times Tech
Apr 05, 2024

Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There's a Fund for That.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.

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