Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.
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The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behin… Read More
In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.
Meaghan Tobin… Read More
The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.
David McCabe and Cecilia Kang | NYTimes… Read More
The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the technology was not controlled by a handful of giant companies — including his own.
Mike Isaac | NYTi… Read More
While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.
David Streitfeld and Kate Conger | NYTimes Technolo… Read More
Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.
Nico Grant and Cade Metz | NYTime… Read More
Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.
Ryan Mac and T… Read More
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.
David Streitfeld | NYTimes Technology | Disc… Read More
The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.
Kate Conger and Ryan Mac | NYTimes Tec… Read More
For struggling American video game companies, Saudi Arabia’s investments in the industry have been hard to resist. Not all gamers are happy about it.
Eli Tan and Katarina Premfors |… Read More
Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.
Stuart A. Th… Read More
The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.
Don Clark | NYT… Read More
Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.
Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.
Cade Metz | NYTimes… Read More
Deleting duplicates, bad shots and other unwanted files makes it easier to find the good pictures — and gives you room to take more.
J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Technology | Disclosu… Read More
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
Eli Tan | NYTimes Technology | D… Read More
Test your skills in this quiz.
Stuart A. Thompson | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
His keyboard, which became famous after Tom Hanks melodiously hopped on it, displayed Mr. Saraceni’s vision of technology powered by “people energy.”
Alex Traub | NYTimes… Read More
Word puzzles on LinkedIn. Logic challenges in The Washington Post. For news publishers and tech sites looking to both entice and engage users, games are serious business.
Mike Isaac | NYTi… Read More
The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.
Kashmir Hill | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Apple, a latecomer to artificial intelligence, has struck a deal with OpenAI and developed tools to improve its Siri voice assistant, which it is set to showcase on Monday.
Tripp Mickle |… Read More
Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Here’s what to… Read More
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.
Tripp Mickle and Erin Griffith… Read More
A group of current and former employees are calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.
Kevin… Read More
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
Nico Grant and Katie Rober… Read More
The Tesla chief executive is taking to his social media company to press shareholders to vote for a critical pay package on June 13.
Kate Conger and Jack Ewing | NYTimes Technology | Discl… Read More
Our tech columnist reviews GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest chatbot technology, in its partly finished state.
Brian X. Chen and Karen Hanley | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
An incident that seriously injured a pedestrian in San Francisco led Cruise to take all of its cars off the road. The question now is when they will return.
Yiwen Lu | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.
Mike Isaac | NYTimes Technology | Disc… Read More
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.
Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disc… Read More
Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.
David Streitfeld | NYTimes Technology… Read More
The company’s latest A.I. search feature has erroneously told users to eat glue and rocks, sparking a backlash among users.
Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
New chatbot technology can talk, laugh and sing like a human. What comes next is anyone’s guess.
Kevin Roose | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
Kevin Roose | NYTimes Te… Read More
The system, AlphaFold3, could accelerate efforts to understand the human body and fight disease.
Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Travel-focused A.I. bots and more eco-friendly transportation options in online maps and search tools can help you quickly organize your seasonal getaway.
J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Techn… Read More
The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.
Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
Erin Griffith | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.
Cecilia Kang and David McCabe | NYTime… Read More
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
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The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to weigh heavily on a pipeline of similar antitrust cases.
David McCabe | NYTimes… Read More
Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data.
Kashmir Hill | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
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.
Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Tripp Mic… Read More
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… Read More
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
Karen Weise | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
Cecilia Kang | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
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.
David Str… Read More
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.
Cecilia Kang | NYTime… Read More
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.
J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Technology | D… Read More
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.
Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac | NYTimes… Read More
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.
Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.
Natasha Singer | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.
Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
Cecilia Kang, Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson | N… Read More
Even if you manage to ditch your iPhone, Apple’s hooks are still there.
Brian X. Chen | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools for fighting A.I.-manipulated content.
Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu | NYT… Read More
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.
Katie Hafner | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals?
Brian X. Chen, Karen Hanley, Claire Hogan and Mike Isaac | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
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.
Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac | NYT… Read More
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.
Paul Mozur and Cade Metz | NYT… Read More
The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping bad actors at bay.
Kevin Roose | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Roku recently changed its policy to make it even harder for customers to take legal action. It’s a reminder of how we need to protect ourselves.
Brian X. Chen | NYTimes Technology |… Read More
A partnership would extend the long relationship between the companies that has helped deliver everything from maps to search on Apple’s devices.
Tripp Mickle, Nico Grant and Brian X… Read More
After losing two complaints before the U.S. International Trade Commission, Apple has stepped up its lobbying to change the agency’s practices.
Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Di… Read More
The video-sharing app has received unfair treatment in Washington. But the company’s biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
Kevin Roose | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
The site, a throwback to an earlier era of social media, is poised to go public as soon as next week. It hasn’t been easy to reach this point.
Mike Isaac | NYTimes Technology | Discl… Read More
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rap… Read More
Mr. Altman was among new additions to the board announced on Friday, more than three months after he was briefly pushed out of the company.
Cade Metz, Tripp Mickle and Mike Isaac | NYTimes… Read More
Bitcoin’s price surged above $68,800, breaking the record the digital currency set in November 2021 when the crypto industry was booming.
David Yaffe-Bellany | NYTimes Technology | D… Read More
People reported issues with the websites starting around 10 a.m. Eastern, according to Down Detector, a website that tracks user reports of internet disruptions.
Lola Fadulu | NYTimes Tech… Read More
In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up’s closest partner.
Karen Weise and Cade Metz | NYTimes Tec… Read More
Mr. Musk says in his complaint that the company’s technology is now so good that it must be made freely available to the public — and held back from Microsoft.
Kevin Roose | NY… Read More
Once united over the future of artificial intelligence, they have become increasingly estranged over the years.
Yiwen Lu and Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Internal disagreements over the direction of the Apple car led the effort to sputter for years before it was canceled this week.
Brian X. Chen and Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Discl… Read More
Since the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul was convicted of fraud last year, his supporters have maneuvered to secure a lenient sentence and change the public narrative about his case.
David… Read More
The artificial intelligence start-up argued that its online chatbot, ChatGPT, is not a substitute for a New York Times subscription.
Cade Metz and Katie Robertson | NYTimes Technology | Di… Read More
In this year’s presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the platform tries de-emphasizing “political content.”
Sapna Maheshwari and M… Read More
Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.
Cade Metz and Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
The company raised $7.3 billion over the last year, as the lure of artificial intelligence changes Silicon Valley deal-making.
Erin Griffith and Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Delays in finishing new factories are emerging, just as the Biden administration begins handing out money to stoke domestic production.
Don Clark and Ana Swanson | NYTimes Technology | Dis… Read More
As it races to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has retired its Bard chatbot and released a more powerful app.
Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.
Jesus Jim&eac… Read More
A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.
Kevin Roose | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Lawsuits filed by NetChoice, which represents companies including TikTok and Meta, have stalled protection efforts in three states.
Natasha Singer | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Revenue was up 18% in the latest quarter, the tech giant said, as investors look for signs that it’s beginning to profit from artificial intelligence.
Karen Weise | NYTimes Technolog… Read More
Popularized in China during the pandemic, ReelShort and other apps are hoping to bring minute-by-minute melodramas to the United States.
Claire Moses | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency.
Yiwen Lu | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Chafing at their dependence, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are racing to cut into Nvidia’s dominant share of the market.
Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Mike Isaac | NYTimes Technolo… Read More
Many feared that artificial intelligence would kill jobs. But hospitals, insurance companies and others are creating roles to navigate and harness the disruptive technology.
Yiwen Lu | NYT… Read More
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
David McCabe | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
Cecilia Kang | NYTimes Te… Read More
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 would no longer detect people’s pulse rate, to comply with a ruling by the International Trade Commission.
Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technolog… Read More
The layoffs are part of efforts by the video platform’s parent company, Google, to trim costs and bureaucracy as it embraces artificial intelligence.
Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology… Read More
Google’s Routines and Apple’s Shortcuts combine multiple steps into one command to make your phone or tablet do more of the work for you.
J. D. Biersdorfer | NYTimes Technology… Read More
The deal was the latest sign of changes in the tech sector, as artificial intelligence booms and sales of some hardware slows.
Don Clark | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
New A.I. tools could enable a Silicon Valley dream: bots that customize learning for pupils. Prior attempts have not lived up to the hype.
Natasha Singer | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure Read More
Amid U.S.-China tensions, the company has faced questions over whether operating an advanced research lab in Beijing is politically tenable.
Karen Weise, Cade Metz and David McCabe | NYTim… Read More
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.
Don Clark and Ana Swanson | NYTime… Read More