Organizations today rely heavily on open-source frameworks and third-party libraries to accelerate software development and…
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Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again as a Deal Takes Shape
As President Trump extended for a fourth time a deadline to determine TikTok’s future in…
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What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI plan to spend at least $325 billion by the…
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Nvidia Broke Antitrust Law, China Says, as Tensions With U.S. Mount
Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia…
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Roblox Sued for Wrongful Death After Teenager’s Suicide
At age 7, Ethan Dallas began playing the online game, where he met Nate. Deadly…
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Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
“There’s only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in…
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Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Democratic Party.
The youngest chair in the history of the Federal Trade Commission is campaigning for Zohran…
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Tesla Board Chair Defend’s Elon Musk’s Humongous Pay Proposal
Robyn Denholm, normally media shy, is campaigning to get shareholders to back the chief executive’s…
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Used E.V. Sales Take Off as Prices Plummet
Electric vehicles on the used market often cost less than comparable gasoline models, making the…
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Trump Administration Seeks Pilot Projects for Air Taxis
The projects would allow small electric or hybrid aircraft to carry passengers or cargo before…
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Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room
“The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord,” a user said of the platform popular…
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Wild Speculation and Misinformation on Charlie Kirk Shooting Spreads on Social Media
Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the…
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Canadian Man Falsely Named as Charlie Kirk’s Shooter on Social Media
The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed…
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Senators Demand Answers From Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp Security
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to…
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Exxon Wants to Make More of the Materials Needed for E.V. Batteries
The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as…
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Apple Introduces iPhone 17, iPhone Air and Updated AirPods at Annual Event
The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its…
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ASML to Invest $1.5 Billion in Mistral, the French A.I. Start-Up
ASML, the Dutch maker of semiconductor equipment, is investing about $1.5 billion in Mistral, the…
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Whistle-Blower Sues Meta Over Claims of WhatsApp Security Flaws
In a lawsuit filed Monday, the former head of security for the messaging app accused…
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The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds
Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting…
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The Spectacular Comeback Tour of Ross Ulbricht, the Founder of Silk Road
Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life…
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Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could…
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Jean Twenge Is Still Warning Parents About Teens and Screen Time. Is Anyone Listening?
The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen…
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Would Anyone Use a Chinese Stablecoin?
A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to…
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Elon Musk Could Become First Trillionaire Under New Tesla Pay Package
Tesla’s board unveiled a compensation package for the chief executive that could be worth $900…
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Joshua Abram Dies at 62; Gave Workspace-Sharing an Upscale Spin
He and a partner made their co-working locations feel like private clubs. Among his other…
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Google Search Monopoly Ruling Sends Signal for Big-Tech Antitrust Cases
A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but…
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Amazon Pares Back Free Shipping Perk on Prime
The e-commerce giant is ending a program that let Prime members share free shipping with…
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Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they…
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What the Fixes for Google’s Search Monopoly Mean for You: It’s a ‘Nothingburger’
A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our…
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Ask The Morning: What Do You Want to Know About A.I.?
The technology seems to be everywhere these days. We’ll find experts to answer your questions.
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Silicon Valley Pledges $200 Million to New Pro-A.I. Super PACs
The two PACs reflect a new level of political engagement by companies like Meta and…
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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science
Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see…
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How Builder.ai Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom
Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid…
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How ‘Clanker’ Became an Anti-A.I. Rallying Cry
The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real…
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An Online Group Claims It’s Behind Campus Swatting Wave
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and…
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The A.I. Spending Frenzy Is Propping Up the Real Economy, Too
The trillions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into new data centers are starting…
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Can Cadillac Keep Selling E.V.s as Trump Repeals Climate Policies?
Electric models from the luxury car brand have been very successful, but they may struggle…
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Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
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South Korea Outlaws Use of Smartphones During Class
It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that…
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Google Pixel 10 Pro Review: This A.I. Phone Can Save Time if You Surrender Your Data
The new artificially intelligent Pixel can help people streamline certain tasks. But that efficiency may…
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Nvidia Earnings Show Sales Jump Amid Strong Demand for A.I. Chips
The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for…
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How to Set Up a Personalized News Feed on Your Phone
Apps from Google, Apple and other companies let you customize your content so you’re always…
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SpaceX Starship Completes Successful Test Flight After Previous Launch Setbacks
After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket company splashed down…
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16,…
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SpaceX Scrubs 10th Starship Test Launch Because of Lousy Weather
Weather interfered on Monday night with the ability of Elon Musk’s company to show it…
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What the ‘Panama Playlists’ Exposed About Spotify User Privacy
The “Panama Playlists” exposed the Spotify listening habits of some famous people — and two…
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SpaceX Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Starship Rocket
Elon Musk’s company will reschedule the next trip of its Starship prototype, which faced setbacks…
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Revealing Taste
A clever leak exposed the music habits of some famous people — and two Times…
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Intel's Downfall Underlines How Even Tech Giants Can Fade
The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s journey from icon to a government project, with the sale of…
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The All-Female Hacker House Trying to Break A.I.’s Glass Ceiling
FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker…
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Ex-Employee Sentenced to 4 Years for Sabotaging Company’s Computer Network
The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers…
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Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
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French Authorities Investigate Death of Streamer Jean Pormanove After Months of Abuse
Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was regularly subjected to humiliation and abuse on…
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Warren Brodey, 101, Dies; a Visionary at the Dawn of the Information Age
His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work…
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Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary…
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OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500 Billion
At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.
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Zuckerberg Again Overhauls Meta’s A.I. Efforts
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over…
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A.I. Travel Tools Are Everywhere. Are They Any Good?
A.I.-powered tools can help you plan trips, squeeze value out of loyalty programs and translate…
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Trump Administration Discusses Taking 10% Stake in Intel
Federal officials are considering the move because Intel, the last leading-edge chipmaker in the United…
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At China’s Humanoid Robot Games, Athletes Fell Down a Lot
The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements…
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They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold…
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He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok.
Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Most Likely Doesn’t Pay Taxes
Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely…
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Senator Josh Hawley Begins Child Safety Inquiry Into Meta’s A.I. Bot
Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s…
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Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters
The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and…
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GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
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Margaret Boden, Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human…
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Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and…
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Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of…
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Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry
President Trump has become the semiconductor sector’s leading decision maker, from new fees on exports…
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Do Kwon, Crypto Founder Who Caused 2022 Market Crash, Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty…
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Larry Ellison Wants to Do Good, Do Research and Make a Profit
Oracle’s co-founder and the world’s second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his…
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California Supreme Court Requires New Review of Rooftop Solar Policy
The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation…
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NASA Is Getting Fired Up About a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
Placing an atomic energy source on the lunar surface is “not science fiction,” experts say,…
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Trump Announces Additional $100 Billion Apple Investment in U.S.
The White House said the pledge would bring more of the company’s supply chain and…
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How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had…
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OpenAI to Open-Source Some of the A.I. Systems Behind ChatGPT
In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the…
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Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs
Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college.…
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The Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom
The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the…
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Joby Will Buy Blade’s Helicopter Taxi Business for $125 Million
Joby Aviation, which is developing electric aircraft, will acquire the passenger business of Blade, a…
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OpenAI Raises Another Funding Deal, From Dragoneer, Blackstone and More
The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness…
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Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet
The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing…
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Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash
Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in…
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Ford Is Latest Carmaker to Blame Tariffs for Profit Slump
The company estimated that duties on imported cars and car parts would cost it $2…
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A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron…
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Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT
“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls…
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Figma’s $20 Billion Sale Died. It Came Back to Go Public.
Figma, which makes a design platform, was on the verge of a big payday before…
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Trump Announces Health Care Records System for Consumers
The administration is working with tech companies to make sharing information with various providers easier.…
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Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence…
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How to Mute Your IPhone or Android During Vacations
You can silence nonessential alerts and calls on your iPhone or Android device for later…
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NISAR — a NASA-India Collaboration — Will Study Earth With Radar. Here’s How to Watch the Launch.
A new Earth-observing satellite, built by NASA and India’s space agency, will be sent into…
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Meta Unveils Wristband For Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures
When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on…
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Citizen Scientists Are Accelerating Ecology Research With iNaturalist
Thousands of scientific papers have used data collected by users of the platform iNaturalist, according…
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The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games
Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is…
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William J. Rutter, Biotech Pioneer of Gene-Based Medicine, Dies at 97
His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B,…
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The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here
Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, following a playbook that…
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What to Know About the Hack at Tea, an App Where Women Share Red Flags About Men
A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a…
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Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics
“Any historical understanding of the First Amendment would say this is just plainly unconstitutional.”
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Citing New Rules, Meta Says It Will End Political Ads in E.U.
Meta said political advertising would end in October, citing a forthcoming E.U. regulation that it…
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Trump’s A.I. Challenge: Focus on Weapon Concerns or Woke-ism?
In the Biden era, the government feared AI models would guide the spread of chemical,…
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Intel Expects Work Force to Shrink by 25,000
The Silicon Valley chip company, which has been struggling, quantified the job cuts it is…
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In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceX
new video loaded: In the Latest Space Race, It’s China vs. SpaceXBy Selam Gebrekidan, Nikolay…
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Tesla Earnings Show Falling Profit as Car Sales Slow
Elon Musk has said robotaxis are the company’s future, but most revenue still comes from…
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Federal Prosecutors Close Inquiry Into Co-Founder of Kraken Crypto Exchange
The F.B.I. had raided the home of Jesse Powell in 2023 as part of an…
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William H. Neukom, Microsoft Lawyer Who Led Antitrust Fight, Dies at 83
In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it…
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Google A.I. System Wins Gold In International Math Olympiad
OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.
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Tesla Driver Testifies Autopilot Failed to Prevent Fatal Crash
The driver gave testimony in a federal trial about Tesla’s role in a 2019 accident…
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U.S. Proposes Steep Tariffs on Critical E.V. Battery Material
The Commerce Department plans to impose a 93.5 percent levy on Chinese graphite, an essential…
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Crypto Industry Reaches Milestone With Passage of Genius Act
After a week of squabbling in Washington, the cryptocurrency industry secured one of its primary…
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What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers.
Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and…
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X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’
“XAI had to apologize after Grok began praising Adolf Hitler, making antisemitic comments and referring…
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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed…
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How a Video Studio Embraced A.I. and Stormed the Internet
The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
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Court Rules Trump’s Firing of F.T.C. Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter Was Illegal
A federal judge said Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, whom President Trump fired from the Federal Trade…
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What to Know About the Three Crypto Regulation Bills in Congress
The House this week took up a trio of bills that would establish a federal…
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How Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Persuaded Trump to Sell A.I. Chips to China
With help from a longtime Silicon Valley investor turned White House insider, Mr. Huang got…
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Congress Was Supposed to Vote on 3 Crypto Bills This Week
The crypto industry was headed for a landmark moment in the House with three bills…
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China Is Spending Billions to Become an A.I. Superpower
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap…
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Federal Prosecutors Close Inquiry Into Polymarket Betting Website
The site became prominent last year when people bet on the outcome of the 2024…
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Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about…
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Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race…
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How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made
The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in…
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Is A.I. the Future of Web Browsing?
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the…
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Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users’ ‘Extremist Views’ in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update…
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Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and…
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Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf,…
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A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which…
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
An analysis by the American Association for the Advancement of Science shows the impact of…
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Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose…
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Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education
Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges…
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OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from…
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Grok, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Shares Antisemitic Posts on X
The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding…
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Marco Rubio Impersonation Under State Dept. Investigation
A person or people imitating the secretary of state used artificial intelligence to send text…
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Your Job Interviewer Is Not a Person. It’s A.I.
You thought artificial intelligence was coming for your job? First, it’s coming for your job…
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Will A.I. Replace New Hires or Middle Managers?
Amid layoffs at Microsoft and other large tech companies, experts are debating whose jobs are…
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China Bans Some Portable Batteries From Flights as Safety Concerns Grow
Airlines and governments around the world have tightened restrictions on the devices after a series…
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How to Organize Your E-Books on Kindle, Apple and Google and Nook
If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated…
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The Coder ‘Village’ at the Heart of China’s A.I. Frenzy
As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is…
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YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed…
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Solar Industry Says Republican Policy Bill Would Cede Production to China
A revival of U.S. solar panel manufacturing that began during the first Trump administration could…
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Hard Fork Live, Part 2: CEOs of Stripe and Skip
More from our first live show taping, including a robot pants demo and audience questions.
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Scientist Use A.I. To Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
To better understand human cognition, scientists trained a large language model on 10 million psychology…
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Tesla Sales Fall as Elon Musk Focuses on Self-Driving Cars
The company has devoted resources to autonomous driving rather than developing new models to attract…
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454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in…
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Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees
The reductions followed cuts of about 6,000 positions last quarter, and were indicative of a…
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Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default
The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said,…
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Senate Votes to Allow State A.I. Laws, a Blow to Tech Companies
All but a handful of states have some laws regulating artificial intelligence.
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Trump Wants America to Make iPhones. Here’s How India Is Doing It.
India is carving out a new space for Foxconn and other high-end manufacturers, just as…
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He Made Billions on Google and PayPal. Now, He’s Betting on News.
Michael Moritz co-founded The San Francisco Standard, a local news organization. It is acquiring Charter,…
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:( Microsoft’s ‘Blue Screen of Death’ Is Going Away
The blue screen that stressed computer users for more than three decades is giving way…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Narrow CZI’s Focus to Science Efforts
The tech titan and his wife once had sprawling ambitions for their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.…
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At Bezos’ Venetian Wedding: Buzz, Bling and Backlash
The over-the-top party in the photogenic Italian city mixed Hollywood, Silicon Valley and political overtones.
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Authorities Rescue Girl Whose Mother Livestreamed Her Sexual Abuse
The 9-year-old from Vietnam was abused by her mother for customers watching on smartphone apps…
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Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as…
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Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in…
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Tanner Martin Announces His Own Death
Tanner Martin has documented his fight against colon cancer for hundreds of thousands of followers.…
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Four Astronauts Lift Off on Axiom Mission to the I.S.S.
Sponsored by governments but ferried by a private company, astronauts from Hungary, India and Poland…
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Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?
Ads for consumer A.I. are struggling to imagine how the product could improve your day…
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Takeaways From Hard Fork’s Interview With OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Mr. Altman discussed President Trump’s understanding of artificial intelligence, the war for A.I. talent and…
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At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers…
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Ford Will Keep Battery Factory Even if Republicans Ax Tax Break
Ford Motor said it would open a new plant in Michigan that could become ineligible…
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BYD and Other Chinese Carmakers Expand Sales in Europe Despite Tariffs
BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union…
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Tesla Begins Limited Robotaxi Service in Austin
The vehicles will have safety monitors and may not operate in bad weather, making them…
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Trump Is Selling a Phone + The Start-Up Trying to Automate Every Job + Allison Williams Talks ‘M3GAN 2.0’
“They’re calling it the T1 Phone 8002 Gold Version, which sounds kind of like a…
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TikTok Hits Cannes, Where a U.S. Ban Seems a Distant Dream
TikTok executives hosted happy hours and played pickleball with influencers on the French Riviera this…
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Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of…
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Hybrid Cars, Once Derided and Dismissed, Have Become Popular
Automakers and car buyers are taking a second, harder look at hybrids after leaving them…
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How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like…
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Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are…
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Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discoveries?
Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed…
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Your A.I. Queries Come With a Climate Cost
When it comes to artificial intelligence, more intensive computing uses more energy, producing more greenhouse…
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Tesla’s Robotaxi, Long Promised by Elon Musk, Joins a Crowded Field
Mr. Musk says the driverless taxis could begin ferrying passengers on Sunday in Austin, Texas,…
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Lawmakers Demand Palantir Provide Information About U.S. Contracts
Ten Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the tech company this week asking about its…
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China’s Spy Agencies Are Investing Heavily in A.I., Researchers Say
A new report comes amid rising concern about how China will use new tools to…
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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool…
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Trumps Promote American Bitcoin, a New Crypto Mining Venture
The debut of American Bitcoin, a mining firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump…
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Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time
For nearly three decades he has created mesmerizing planetarium shows at the American Museum of…
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Meta Is Building a Superintelligence Lab. What Is That?
Mark Zuckerberg has reorganized his company’s ambitions around a hypothetical future that is suddenly the…
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Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation
“These pay packages that they’re offering are stretching into nine figures.”
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Charging Your EV May Be Getting Easier, Even if It’s Not a Tesla
It is becoming easier to find fast chargers for electric vehicles, and they are more…
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They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.…
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Nintendo Switch 2 Review: Bigger and Better, for a Higher Price
The hardware improvements in the new $450 Nintendo will make this an automatic upgrade for…
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Meta Invests $14.3 Billion in Scale AI to Kick-Start Superintelligence Lab
Meta is making its first major minority investment in an outside company as it tries…
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Google DeepMind and National Hurricane Center Join on New A.I. Model
The National Hurricane Center will experiment with the company’s DeepMind program to enhance the work…
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This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job
Mechanize, a San Francisco start-up, is building artificial intelligence tools to automate white-collar jobs “as…
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Elon Musk Says His Trump Criticisms ‘Went Too Far’
President Trump and Elon Musk traded social media barbs last week. Mr. Trump has said…
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John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its…
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Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of…
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How ASML, a Key Supplier to the Chip Industry, Is Navigating Trump’s Trade War
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with…
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YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over…
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UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over A.I. Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material
A senior judge said on Friday that lawyers could be prosecuted for presenting material that…
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Takeaways From Graduation Speeches by Trump, Taraji P. Henson and Others
The New York Times studied videos of addresses posted online, including those by President Trump,…
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Bill Atkinson, Who Made Computers Easier to Use, Is Dead at 74
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images…
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The Trump-Elon Musk Feud Creates More Problems for Tesla
Already suffering from steep declines in sales and profit, the carmaker could now face the…
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What to Know About the Effects of Ketamine
Elon Musk has said that he used ketamine as a treatment in the past, but…
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If Elon Musk and Donald Trump Make Up, Don’t Be Surprised
For all the insults that Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump traded on Thursday, don’t be…
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How NASA Would Struggle Without SpaceX if Trump Cancels Musk’s Contracts
If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government…
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Reddit Sues Anthropic, Accusing It of Illegally Using Data From Its Site
In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement…
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David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s,…
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