Judge Finds Amazon Broke Labor Law in Anti-Union Effort
The ruling, on charges brought by the National Labor Relations Board, involved actions at two Staten Island warehouses before union votes la...
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Tesla’s Self-Driving Technology Comes Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny
A regulatory filing says officials have asked about software that Elon Musk, the chief executive, has said would allow cars to operate auton...
Snap’s Growth Slows Further Amid Tech Downturn
The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and declined to provide financial guidance.
Apple’s Secrecy Violated Workers Rights, NLRB Finds
Following a yearlong investigation, a federal labor board determined that the tech giant’s rules interfere with employees’ right to organize...
The Last Boeing 747 Leaves the Factory
The plane known as “Queen of the Skies” helped make air travel more affordable, but it has been supplanted by smaller, more efficient aircra...
Thrive Capital Said to Lead Potential Investment in Stripe
Thrive has committed $1 billion, which would value the payments provider Stripe at about $55 billion to $60 billion, people with knowledge o...
Ford Follows Tesla in Cutting Electric Vehicle Prices
The automaker reduced the price of the Mustang Mach-E by up to $5,900 after Tesla slashed prices of its cars by as much as 20 percent.
‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn
Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to combat climate change.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s Prosecutors Ask Judge to Tighten Bail Conditions
The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive’s attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.
Anthropic Said to Be Closing In on $300 Million in New A.I. Funding
Anthropic specializes in generative artificial intelligence, a hot investment in Silicon Valley. The new funding could value the company at ...
Meta’s Trump Calculus and Regime Change at Netflix
Plus, we play the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s video game “Dookey Dash.”
A Federal Court Blocks California’s New Medical Misinformation Law
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Justice Dept. Dismantles a Major Ransomware Operation
The department said it had successfully prevented victims from having to pay $130 million in ransoms to Hive, a prolific ransomware gang, be...
Stripe Hires Investment Banks to Explore Public Listing
The payments processing start-up, one of the world’s most valuable private companies, could go public in the next year, people with knowledg...
University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in A.I.
Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intellige...
TikTok’s New Defense in Washington: Going on the Offense
Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
Ukraine’s Scientists Receive a Funding Lifeline From Abroad
The Simons Foundation in New York is providing annual grants to the country’s chemists, biologists, physicists and mathematicians.
Tesla’s Profit Jumped 12% in Fourth Quarter
The electric car company is facing intensifying competition, supply chain disruptions and concerns about the behavior of Elon Musk.
Microsoft Outlook and Teams Outage Reported Due To ‘Networking Issue’
The widely used Microsoft Teams and Outlook email services were among the services affected.
Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It.
Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this.
Microsoft Revenue Up 2 Percent, but Profit Drops 12 Percent
The company, which announced plans to lay off 10,000 workers last week, had warned that is was facing a significant slowdown in the growth o...
Tesla Will Build Heavy Trucks at a New Factory in Nevada
The $3.6 billion investment, which also includes a new battery factory, presents a challenge to traditional truck makers that have been slow...
Elon Musk Said Tesla Buyout Plan Didn’t Involve ‘a Specific Number’
Under questioning, Mr. Musk said he hadn’t discussed how much money investors would put in to help him take his car company private.
Microsoft Revenue Up 2 Percent, but Profit Drops 12 Percent
The company, which announced plans to lay off 10,000 workers last week, had warned that is was facing a significant slowdown in the growth o...
U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Ad Technology
The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth against the company since 2020.
Emailing Your Doctor May Carry a Fee
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice...
Elon Musk Says Saudi Fund Wanted to Take Tesla Private
Mr. Musk is testifying in a lawsuit filed by investors who claim that his statements about a plan to take Tesla private in 2018 caused them ...
Microsoft Extends Multibillion-Dollar Deal With Creator of ChatGPT
The tech giant aims to to remain at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence with its partnership with OpenAI.
Supreme Court Puts Off Considering State Laws Curbing Internet Platforms
The laws, enacted by Florida and Texas in response to conservative complaints about censorship, have been challenged under the First Amendme...
Spotify to Lay Off 6% of Its Work Force
The audio streaming platform becomes the latest big technology company to cut costs over worries about the economy.
For Tech Companies, Years of Easy Money Yield to Hard Times
Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reali...
Elon Musk Says His Social Media Posts Did Not Drive Tesla’s Stock Price
The chief executive of Tesla testified in a federal civil trial about a 2018 plan to take the automaker private that fizzled out.
Tech Layoffs Shock Young Workers. The Older People? Not So Much.
The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.
The Chatbots Can’t Outsmart You. Yet.
The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it. We need to stay ca...
Google Calls in Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. Fight
A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects ...
Genesis, a Crypto Lending Firm, Files for Bankruptcy
Genesis was caught in the fallout of the collapse of FTX, the crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried.
T-Mobile Says Hacker Got Data From 37 Million Customer Accounts
The breach exposed information like names, addresses and phone numbers and lasted more than a month, the company reported in a securities fi...
Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech
The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.
Bitcoin Price Rallies to Recoup Losses Since FTX Collapse
Investors have pushed the cryptocurrency above $21,000, and other digital tokens have risen as well.
Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs
The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company’s work force, are its largest in roughly eight years.
Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather?
When the barometer drops, the hyperbole rises, and meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech
Dutch privacy negotiators have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft and Zoom, using a landmark European data protection law as a lever...
‘Polar Vortex’ Got You Baffled? Try This Extreme-Weather Guide
A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage.
Want a Giant Neon Twitter Bird? It’s One of Many Items Up for Auction.
The company’s artwork, high-end furniture and espresso machines are for sale in an online auction that evoked a more flush era when its tast...
What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological ...
Apple Reaches Deal With Investors to Audit Its Labor Practices
The tech giant will assess its compliance with its official human rights policy, according to a federal filing.
Elon Musk Faces Trial Over His 2018 Plan to Take Tesla Private
Investors are seeking billions of dollars in damages for their losses after Mr. Musk posted a proposal on Twitter that never materialized.
Lawyers Barred by Madison Square Garden Found a Way Back In
MSG Entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to p...
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines’ CEO, on What Went Wrong
Southwest Airlines’ chief executive, Bob Jordan, said frigid temperatures and mistakes by the company caused its meltdown around Christmas.
Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines’ CEO, on What Went Wrong
Southwest Airlines’ chief executive, Bob Jordan, said frigid temperatures and mistakes by the company caused its meltdown around Christmas.
A Teacher Who Loves ChatGPT and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real?
Also, why teenagers are buying old digital cameras.
Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.
As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down o...
SEC Charges Crypto Companies With Offering Unregistered Securities
The S.E.C. charged Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust, which is run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as crypto companies face heightene...
Don’t Ban ChatGPT in Schools. Teach With It.
OpenAI’s new chat bot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
Sam Bankman-Fried Makes First Detailed Response to Fraud Charges
The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX denied that he stole anyone’s money and said customers could still get their deposits back....
Amazon Loses Bid to Overturn Union Victory at Staten Island Warehouse
A National Labor Relations Board official found a lack of evidence to support claims of election improprieties. Amazon could appeal the deci...
Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue
The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention
Face filters and selfie apps are so compelling because they simulate limitless interest in what we look like.
Korean Solar Company Plans to Build $2.5 Billion Plant in Georgia
Hanwha Qcells expects to make solar panels and their components in the United States to take advantage of President Biden’s climate policies...
Inside Intel’s Delays in Delivering a Crucial New Microprocessor
The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.
Coinbase Lays Off Another 20% of Employees
The cuts at the cryptocurrency exchange come after nearly a fifth of employees were let go in June, as crypto markets teeter and tech compan...
Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17
Sexually explicit content has become so prevalent online that teenagers are deluged, according to a new report by a nonprofit child advocacy...
AI Is Becoming More Conversant. But Will It Get More Honest?
At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined...
Brazil Riot and Jan. 6 Attack Followed a Similar Digital Playbook, Experts Say
Researchers are studying how the internet was used to stoke anger and to organize far-right groups ahead of the Brazilian riots.
Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere
The tech giant had already remade the virtual world. For a brief period, it also tried to make it easier for people in the Bay Area to get t...
A.I. Turns Its Artistry to Creating New Human Proteins
Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid.
Jack Ma, Ant Group Founder, Will Relinquish Control
Ant Group, the fintech sister company of the e-commerce behemoth Alibaba, is one of China’s most influential companies.
The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera
Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos.
A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom
An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in...
‘Alexa, Why Do We Keep Buying You?’
With questions swirling about the utility of voice assistants, we asked readers how they use one of the most popular, Amazon’s Alexa. Here’s...
What Are Your Tech Resolutions for 2023?
The Times wants to know how you plan to use technology differently this year.
These Engineers Want to Build Conscious Robots. Others Say It’s a Bad Idea.
The pursuit of robot consciousness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a slurry of difficult questions.
TikTok Spied on Journalists and ChatGPT is Challenging Google
TikTok skeptics now have a smoking gun.
Mercedes-Benz Plans to Build U.S. Electric Car Charging Network
The network could help increase the low number of charging stations, encouraging more people to buy electric vehicles.
New York Attorney General Sues Founder of Collapsed Crypto Bank
New York Attorney General Letitia James accused the founder of Celsius Network, Alex Mashinsky, of a scheme to defraud hundreds of thousands...
Ford Sales Dipped in 2022, but Electric Vehicle Deliveries Surged
The company’s production was limited by a global chip shortage but it made big gains in the fastest-growing segment of the auto market.
Amazon Expands Corporate Layoffs to 18,000 Jobs
The layoffs will focus on human resources and its retail division, Amazon’s chief executive said in an email to employees.
Tesla Sales in China Slump as Competition Intensifies
Worry about the carmaker’s sales in the world’s largest car market is one reason the shares have plunged.
A Breach at LastPass Has Password Lessons for Us All
The hacking of the password manager should make us reassess whether to trust companies to store our sensitive data in the cloud.
Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space
The software company plans to cut around 8,000 jobs as business slows for tech companies. “We hired too many people leading into this econom...
Meta Fined $414 Million After Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law
The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for t...
Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space
The software company plans to cut around 8,000 jobs as business slows for tech companies. “We hired too many people leading into this econom...
Auto Sales Likely Fell in 2022 Because of Supply Chain Chaos
Automakers have been hampered by the supply of semiconductors and higher interest rates.
Twitter to Relax Ban on Political Ads
Elon Musk’s social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important t...
Video Game Workers Get a Union Foothold at Microsoft
The outcome, involving about 300 employees, is one of organized labor’s biggest victories at a major U.S. tech company.
Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds
Teens who frequently checked social media showed an increasing sensitivity to peer feedback, although the cause of the changes was not clear...
Tesla Car Sales Rose 18% in Last Quarter
The company’s rapid growth is expected to ease as the economy slows and demand for its electric cars weakens.
U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the i...
U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the i...
A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, But More Complex
Continental Drift is one of Henry Segerman’s latest efforts to make mathematics “real.”
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