Tesla and Musk Lose Ruling on Factory Union Issues
A court upheld a finding that Tesla wrongly fired a worker involved in labor organizing and that a Twitter post by Elon Musk was illegally a...
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Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Its Defamation Case
The judge said the case would still need to proceed to trial, for a jury to weigh whether Fox News spread false claims about Dominion Voting...
Sam Altman, the ChatGPT King, Is Pretty Sure It’s All Going to Be OK
Sam Altman sees the pros and cons of totally changing the world as we know it. And if he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan...
ChatGPT Faces Ban in Italy Over Privacy Concerns
The action by Italy’s data protection agency is the first known instance of the chatbot being blocked by a Western country.
Police Relied on Hidden Technology and Put the Wrong Person in Jail
Randal Reid spent nearly a week in confinement, falsely accused of stealing purses in a state he said he had never even visited.
Twitter’s Blue Check Apocalypse Is Upon Us. Here’s What to Know.
Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, is changing the platform’s longstanding practice of verifying accounts. That has implications for a range of use...
Has Bitcoin Benefited From the Banking Crisis? Not in the Way Its Fans Hoped.
Bitcoin’s price has soared since banks failed this month, but there’s little evidence that the surge is being driven by investors treating t...
Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing With ChatGPT
“Am I concerned? Yes. Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology? Incredibly.”
Elon Musk Tried to Meet With F.T.C. Chair About Twitter, but Was Rebuffed
Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter’s privacy and data practices.
How to Use Chatbots, like ChatGPT, in Your Daily Life and Work
Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.
Publishers Worry A.I. Chatbots Will Slash Readership
Many sites get at least half their traffic from search engines. Fuller results generated by new chatbots could mean far fewer visitors.
Sailboat Crew Rescued After Hitting Whale in Pacific Ocean
After the collision in the Pacific Ocean this month, Rick Rodriguez and three other sailors were rescued by a fellow boater, with an assist ...
An Unopened 2007 iPhone Can Be Yours (for $32,000 or More)
A first-generation Apple smartphone is going up for auction.
As Washington Calls for TikTok Ban, Its Owner Begins Pushing a New App
ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, is trying to woo popular social media creators to join its new app, Lemon8, before it is offic...
What Makes Chatbots ‘Hallucinate’ or Say the Wrong Thing?
The curious case of the hallucinating software.
Elon Musk and Others Call for Pause on A.I., Citing ‘Risks to Society’
More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter that urged a moratorium on the development of the most powerful a...
Rift Between Gaming Giants Shows Toll of China’s Economic Crackdown
Activision Blizzard and NetEase could not agree on a new deal to distribute video games in China, cutting millions of players from the games...
Carlos Moreno Wanted to Improve Cities. Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Him.
Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death thr...
A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did.
The swift advance of artificial intelligence in politics is already blurring the boundaries between fact and fake.
How Chatbots and Large Language Models, or LLMs, Actually Work
Learning how a “large language model” operates.
In Hundreds of TikTok Videos, Its Users Defend the App
After lawmakers grilled TikTok’s chief executive last week, the app’s users argued that the platform should not be banned in the United Stat...
Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job?
Artificial intelligence is confronting white-collar professionals more directly than ever. It could make them more productive — or obsolete....
Lyft’s Co-Founders to Step Down as Company Struggles
It has been slow to bounce back from early pandemic problems even as the business of its much bigger rival, Uber, has improved.
Biden Acts to Restrict U.S. Government Use of Spyware
The president signed an executive order seeking to limit deployment of a tool that has been abused by autocracies — and some democracies — t...
A Sting Operation to Save Elephants, With No Stings
While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the s...
Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Chills Start-Up Funding
Two weeks after Silicon Valley Bank failed, the fallout has hit the start-up market as investors pull back further and fear has risen.
Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
The leak adds to the challenges facing the Elon Musk-owned company, which is trying to unmask the person responsible and any other people wh...
Elon Musk Values Twitter at $20 Billion
The billionaire bought the social media company for $44 billion in October and took it private.
At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
His prediction in the 1960s about rapid advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
His prediction in the 1960s about exponential advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
Gordon E. Moore, the Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore’s Law, Dies at 94
His prediction in the 1960s about exponential advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
LG Will Spend $5.5 Billion on a Battery Factory in Arizona
Investment plans for U.S. battery production have increased since President Biden signed a law that offers generous incentives for electric ...
TikTok Stars Go On a D.C. Field Trip
On the bus, off the bus and all over Capitol Hill with creators turned temporary lobbyists. Wait, does anybody need a bathroom break?
Short Seller Accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of Facilitating Fraud
Shares of the financial tech company plunged after Hindenburg Research said it had failed to stamp out illegal activity on its platforms, in...
With Beijing Opposing a TikTok Sale, the Biden Administration’s Options Narrow
If the White House can’t force a sale, that would effectively leave it with two options to resolve concerns about the company.
Chatbot Start-Up Character.AI Valued at $1 Billion in New Funding Round
Founded by ex-Google employees, the Silicon Valley company is among the few start-ups poised to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT....
How to Set Up and Use an eSIM for International Travel
The digital version of the SIM card, included on many newer phones, is set to become prevalent. It also offers affordable cellular data abro...
Relativity Space’s 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Just After Launch
Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle experienced proble...
Crypto Entrepreneur and Celebrity Promoters Face S.E.C. Charges
The agency charged Justin Sun with violations of securities law in a scheme involving the actress Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities.
William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83
One of the first people to receive a graduate degree in the field, Dr. Wulf helped to adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the ne...
Conservatives Aim to Build a Chatbot of Their Own
After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in t...
How Parents Can Talk About AI and ChatGPT With Their Kids
Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
Turing Award Won by Co-Inventor of Ethernet Technology
In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks
The tensions over the Chinese-owned social media app will come to a head on Thursday, when the company’s chief executive testifies on Capito...
What Google Bard Can Do (and What It Can’t)
Google has released a new chatbot to a limited number of people in the U.S. and Britain. How does it compare with what is already out there?...
Strains Emerge Inside the Union That Beat Amazon
Nearly a year after its victory on Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is grappling with election losses and internal conflict.
Google Releases Bard, Its Competitor in the Race to Create A.I. Chatbots
The internet giant will grant users access to a chatbot after years of cautious development, chasing splashy debuts from rivals OpenAI and M...
Inside the 3 Months That Could Cost Fox $1.6 Billion
The decision by Fox News executives in November 2020 to treat the more hard-right Newsmax as a mortal threat spawned a possibly more serious...
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot or Not?
Live from the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a conversation with the assistant attorney general Jonathan Kanter.
Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees
The cuts follow a round of layoffs announced several months ago that affected more than 18,000 jobs.
Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees
The cuts follow another round of layoffs affecting more than 18,000 jobs announced several months ago.
Book Review: ‘Meganets,’ by David B. Auerbach
Who’s really in charge of our online behavior? No one, David Auerbach argues in “Meganets.”
Crypto Wants Its Shine Back
After a miserable year, cryptocurrency companies are looking for ways to rebrand products that many consumers no longer trust.
YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
The Google-owned video platform became the latest of the big social networks to reverse the former president’s account restrictions.
WeWork Reaches a Debt Restructuring Deal With SoftBank
The agreement will reduce the unprofitable office space company’s debt, giving it more financial breathing room.
Twitter’s Discussions Over Licensing Music Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter didn’t move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Silicon Valley Bank’s Deep Ties to the Tech Industry
More than many other banks, SVB catered to how risky tech start-ups and their backers do not adhere to normal business practices.
Microsoft and Google Unveil A.I. Tools for Businesses
New artificial intelligence technology is roiling Silicon Valley. For now, the most obvious ways to use it are in software like Microsoft’s ...
Twitch’s Chief Executive Says He Is Resigning
Emmett Shear was a co-founder of the Amazon-owned streaming service and managed it for 16 years.
China’s Answer to ChatGPT Gets an Artificial Debut and Disappoints
The promised “live” demonstration of the bot had, in fact, been prerecorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, tumbled in ...
U.K. Bans TikTok on Government Devices
The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app’s Chinese ownership could share user information with Beij...
Stripe Raises New Funding That Values It at $50 Billion
The payments processing start-up was valued at $95 billion in 2021, but private company dealmaking has been hurt by souring global economic ...
Stripe Raises New Funding That Values It at $50 Billion
The payments processing start-up was valued at $95 billion in 2021, but private company dealmaking has been hurt by souring global economic ...
GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary
Today, the new language model from OpenAI may not seem all that dangerous. But the worst risks are the ones we cannot anticipate.
Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine Could Include Cyberattacks, Microsoft Says
Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian governm...
The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes
A century ago, Thomas Midgley Jr. was responsible for two phenomenally destructive innovations. What can we learn from them today?
How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the AI Race
The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving ...
How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race
The virtual assistants had more than a decade to become indispensable. But they were hampered by clunky design and miscalculations, leaving ...
Volkswagen Will Invest $193 Billion in Electric Cars and Software
The German automaker announced a plan to accelerate its transition to battery-powered vehicles and bolster operations in China and North Ame...
Sabrina Brier Is TikTok’s Latest Character
Sabrina Brier is finding success online in the role of a 20-something in New York who’s trying to shed her basic suburban past.
Meta to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers
It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November. Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has declared 2023 the “year of eff...
Sabrina Brier Is TikTok’s Latest Character
Sabrina Brier is finding success online in the role of a 20-something in New York who’s trying to shed her basic suburban past.
California Court Mostly Upholds Prop. 22 in Win for Uber and Other Gig Companies
The decision lessens the chances that gig drivers will be considered employees in the state, but it is expected to be appealed to the state ...
An A.I. Start-Up Boomed, but Now It Faces a Slowing Economy and New Rules
Using A.I. tools in hiring is one of the most promising and contentious uses of the technology. The experience of a company called Eightfold...
An Indian tech company’s stock falls after it reveals a link to Silicon Valley Bank.
Nazara Technologies, a mobile gaming company, said two of its subsidiaries had together more than $7.7 million in balances at the failed ban...
Making Deepfakes Gets Cheaper and Easier Thanks to A.I.
Meme-makers and misinformation peddlers are embracing artificial intelligence tools to create convincing fake videos on the cheap.
Fox’s P.R. Woes May Not Directly Translate to Legal Ones
Some of the unflattering private messages among the network’s hosts and executives may never become evidence when Dominion Voting Systems’ d...
3 Lessons From Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure
Here’s one takeaway: The bank’s extremely online clientele may have contributed to its downfall.
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sets Off Blame Game Between Crypto and Tech
The implosion of the Silicon Valley bank led to finger-pointing, as executives and investors jumped on the crisis for their own messaging.
For Palestinian Tech Worker in Israel, Pride, Frustration and 4-Hour Commute
Moha Alshawamreh is among the few Palestinians who work in Israel’s tech industry. His commute shows both the inequities of life in the West...
Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Causes Start-Up Chaos
Young companies raced to get their money out of the bank, which was central to the start-up industry. Some said they could not make payroll....
Which Stores Are Scanning Your Face? No One Knows.
Our reporter took a five-mile walk around Manhattan to find businesses that are using facial recognition technology.
A Representative Goes to A.I. School, and How to Ban TikTok
Also, how Waluigi may explain why A.I. chatbots are misbehaving.
BORG Drinking Is Going Viral on TikTok. What on Earth Is It?
Many college students seem to love this alcohol-heavy concoction. College officials, not so much.
When Quitting Videos Go Viral
On TikTok and YouTube, workers are sharing their stories of leaving their jobs, giving them a sense of power over often untenable situations...
Elon Musk Sees Twitter Financial Recovery and Apologizes to Disabled Ex-Employee
On a day Mr. Musk said the company was recovering from a sharp drop in ad sales, he found himself apologizing to a former employee with a di...
New Tricks for Old Apps
If you haven’t used some of your phone’s preloaded programs in years, the software may surprise you with updated or hidden features.
The Perils of Working on a C.E.O.’s Pet Project
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs.
The Chatbots Are Here, and the Internet Industry Is in a Tizzy
The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, the A.I. could be a boon.
F.T.C. Intensifies Investigation of Twitter’s Privacy Practices
The commission is seeking an interview with Elon Musk, who has made major cuts at the company since acquiring it last year.
Biden F.C.C. Nominee Withdraws
Gigi Sohn, who was first nominated by President Biden in October 2021, said she had faced “unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks” on her ...
The Daring Ruse That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets
How the downfall of one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial espionage.
White House Said to Consider Pushing Congress on Dealing With TikTok
In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other...
How Some Gen Z Instagram Users Post to Facebook: Unwittingly
Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.
How A.I. Is Being Used to Detect Cancer That Doctors Miss
Hungary has become a major testing ground for A.I. software to spot cancer, as doctors debate whether the technology will replace them in me...
Amazon Pauses Work on 2nd Headquarters in Virginia
The delay is the latest reminder that the tech industry’s pandemic-fueled boom has slowed and another indicator of how remote work has chang...
Amazon Pauses Work on 2nd Headquarters in Virginia
The company has been struggling with weak growth and has recently expanded its cost-cutting plans.
Why Is TikTok Being Banned?
Governments have expressed concerns that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, may endanger sensitive user data.
As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology
Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington’s ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.
Biden’s Cybersecurity Strategy Assigns Responsibility to Tech Firms
The policy document urges more mandates on the firms that control most of the nation’s digital infrastructure, and an expanded government ro...
Hubble Telescope Faces Threat From SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites
Scientists found that an increasing number of pictures made by the iconic orbital observatory are being disrupted by passing satellites.
Tech Is Allowing Businesses to Overcharge You in Tips
Payment apps and touch screens have made it easy for merchants to ask us for preset gratuity amounts. We don’t need to succumb to the pressu...
What Does Workplace TikTok Look Like During Layoffs? It Gets Weird.
Tech and finance workers posted countless videos about the luxuries of their jobs — until the mood shifted.
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