In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
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The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
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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.
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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.
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“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Davis Land, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and
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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.
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The Basics of 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.
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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.
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Switching From iPhone to Android Is Easy. It’s the Aftermath That Stings.
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin.
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.
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The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.
By Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.
By Cade Metz and Nico Grant
Meta has already spent billions on developing artificial intelligence, and it plans to spend billions more.
By Marie Solis
The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.
By J. Edward Moreno
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.
By Yiwen Lu
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.
By Nico Grant
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.
By Karen Weise
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.
By Cecilia Kang
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.
By Ivan Penn
The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.
By Jack Ewing
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
By Cecilia Kang
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.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.
By Mike Isaac
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.
By Yiwen Lu
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Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
Mr. Musk’s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.
By Kate Conger
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.
By Sapna Maheshwari, David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
The robotic nerd depicted in “The Social Network” has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What’s going on?
By Vanessa Friedman
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.
By Amanda Hess
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.”
By Niraj Chokshi
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.
By Sapna Maheshwari and David McCabe
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.
By Kashmir Hill
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.
By Jack Ewing
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.
By Neal E. Boudette
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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.
By David E. Sanger
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.
By David Streitfeld
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.
By Karen Weise and Cade Metz
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.
By Steven Lee Myers and Jim Rutenberg
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.
By Cade Metz
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.
By Adam Satariano
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.
By Tariq Panja
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.
By Cecilia Kang
Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.
By Natasha Singer
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.
By Steven Kurutz
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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.
By Maya Salam
Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.
By Erin Griffith
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.
By J. Edward Moreno
“I feel like we’ve been at the club. I need some water and some electrolytes.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Davis Land, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto
Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads from its China app offerings Friday on Beijing’s orders, amid technological tensions between the U.S. and China.
By Tripp Mickle and Mike Isaac
Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.
By Ashwin Seshagiri, Mike Dang, Anemona Hartocollis, Kashmir Hill, Becky Hughes, Santul Nerkar, Jordyn Holman, Michael M. Grynbaum, Ellen Barry, Vanessa Friedman, Dana G. Smith, Amanda Hess, Natasha Singer, David E. Sanger, Ben Sisario, Tiffany Hsu, Sapna Maheshwari and Brooks Barnes
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.
By Nicole Sperling and Benjamin Mullin
The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing.
By Madeleine Ngo and Don Clark
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.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
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.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Emily Flitter
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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.
By Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
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.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.
By Nico Grant
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
By David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari
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.
By Johnny Diaz
In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
By Jonathan Moens
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.
By Jack Ewing
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
By David McCabe
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.
By Steven Kurutz
At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.
By Emily Schmall
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“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.
By Tariq Panja
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
By Paul Mozur and David E. Sanger
Another solution to a problem we didn’t know we had.
By Jessica Roy
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
By Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac
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.
By Kevin Roose
Along with the departure of two senior executives, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.
By Jack Ewing
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.
By Jack Ewing
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.
By Victoria Gomelsky
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.
By Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.
By Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen
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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.
By Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness.
By Cade Metz
The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.
By Yiwen Lu
Volkswagen’s plant in Zwickau stopped producing Golfs and switched to electric vehicles, illuminating the risks and opportunities for factory towns and cities.
By Jack Ewing
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.
By Tripp Mickle
A Tesla driver’s family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker’s driver-assistance software was in use.
By Jack Ewing
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.
By Natasha Singer
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.
By Nico Grant
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.
By Natasha Singer
As medical practices owned by private equity firms fuel overbilling, a payment tool also backed by such investors helps insurers boost their profits.
By Chris Hamby
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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.
By Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
By Cecilia Kang, Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
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.
By Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
“I’ve always said if you have a ChatGPT subscription and a hose, you can get very far in this life.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Pat McCusker, Corey Schreppel and Diane Wong
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.
By Erin Griffith
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.
By Katrina Miller
Un ingeniero de Microsoft notó que algo andaba mal en un software en el que había trabajado. Pronto descubrió que probablemente alguien intentaba acceder a computadoras en todo el mundo.
By Kevin Roose
The automaker said it would delay new battery-powered models and shift its focus to hybrid cars, sales of which are rising fast.
By Neal E. Boudette
The video app is spending millions on ads as Congress considers a bill that could lead to a U.S. ban.
By Sapna Maheshwari
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving.
By Kenneth Chang
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A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
By Kevin Roose
On TikTok and Instagram, people are sharing what it’s like to take care of relatives who have reached their final years.
By Frank Rojas
The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin’s work.
By Christopher Kuo
Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account.
By Steven Kurutz
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.
By Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
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.
By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette
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