How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South...
Trump’s Plans to Scrap Climate Policies Has Unnerved Green Energy Investors
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that...
Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion in New Funding
“A lot of compute is needed,” Mr. Musk said in a post about the financing, in...
Why Mergers of Carmakers Like Honda and Nissan Often Falter
The Japanese companies are considering joining forces to survive in a rapidly changing auto industry, but...
Silicon Valley Heads to Washington
President-elect Donald Trump is tapping the technology sector for key roles, and executives from the venture...
U.S. Takes Aim at China’s Production of Essential Chips
The older-style chips are crucial for a wide array of appliances and other machinery, including weaponry.
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
Hallucinations, a bane of popular A.I. programs, turn out to be a boon for venturesome scientists...
Under Pressure, Telegram Turns a Profit for the First Time
Even as Telegram faces legal scrutiny and grapples with billions in debt, it is set to...
Amazon Warehouse Workers in New York City Join Protest
The workers’ union hopes that adding employees at the Staten Island warehouse to a protest started...
Google Proposes Fix to Solve Search Monopoly
The search giant’s proposals included allowing flexibility for companies and consumers in choosing a search engine.
Google Antitrust Case: Why Chrome May Be Sold and What Happens Next
The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing his options to...
OpenAI Unveils o3 System That Reasons Through Math, Science Problems
The artificial intelligence start-up said the new system, OpenAI o3, outperformed leading A.I. technologies on tests...
How Your Car Might Be Making Roads Safer
Researchers say data from long-haul trucks and General Motors cars is critical for addressing traffic congestion...
Amazon Has Overhauled Its Drone Delivery. Will the Public Welcome It?
A recent visit to Amazon’s overhauled drone delivery program in Arizona left me impressed by the...
Is Amazon’s Drone Delivery Finally Ready for Prime Time?
We flew to Arizona to test the recently debuted service ourselves.
Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions
The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration...
Is the Tech Industry Nearing an A.I. Slowdown?
Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence...
Elon Musk Flexes His Political Strength as Government Shutdown Looms
The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by...
Why Democrats’ Version of ‘Stop the Steal’ Isn’t Taking Off
A movement by some Democratic voters to investigate the results of the 2024 presidential election mirrors...
Google Street View Captures a Man Loading a Bag Into a Trunk. Arrests Follow.
The image, from northern Spain, showed a man with a white bag in the trunk of...
Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied...
How to Navigate Updates to Apple’s and Google’s Photos Apps
Redesigned interfaces, new features and artificial intelligence are meant to enhance the experience, even if the...
Databricks Is Raising $10 Billion, in One of the Largest Venture Capital Deals
The artificial intelligence start-up’s funding shows investors remain enthusiastic about the A.I. boom.
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk and SpaceX
A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could...
Why OpenAI Needs So Much Money
Building a chatbot like ChatGPT requires billions upon billions of dollars. That’s the driving force behind...
How OpenAI Plans to Move From Being a Nonprofit
As the maker of ChatGPT battles Google and Meta for A.I. supremacy, it’s also fighting to...
PG&E Secures $15 Billion Loan From U.S. Energy Department
The loan, the biggest-ever commitment from the Loan Programs Office, is intended to fund the California...
How Empower Has Become Uber’s Rival in Washington D.C.
A company called Empower is trying to take on Uber, Lyft and local regulators as it...
Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims
A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal...
Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That.
Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the...
How Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools
Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in...
Personal Data of Rhode Island Residents Breached in Large Cyberattack
An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from...
Tech Industry and CEOs Curry Favor With Trump Ahead of His Inauguration
It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks...
Tim Cook to Dine With Trump at Mar-a-Lago
The chief executive of Apple is the latest in a series of technology executives who are...
OpenAI Fires Back at Elon Musk’s Lawsuit
The artificial intelligence start-up argues that Mr. Musk is trying to hamstring its business as he...
Why Anthropic’s Claude Is a Hit with Tech Insiders
A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or...
Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn’t Want You to Be.
The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached...
Sam Altman of OpenAI to Donate $1 Million to Trump Inauguration
Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama...
Elon Musk’s Playbook for DOGE Has a Precedent: X
Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts....
TikTok’s Last Stand, Google’s Quantum Breakthrough and the Cult of Claude
“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going...
What Is (or Was) ‘Perks Culture’?
After mass layoffs and a pivot to A.I., the tech industry has been scaling back on...
What Is Venture Capital Now Anyway?
The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a...
How U.S. Firms Battled a Government Crackdown to Keep Tech Sales to China
An intense struggle has unfolded in Washington between companies and officials over where to draw the...
Amazon Plans $1 Million Donation to Trump’s Inaugural Fund
The move follows Meta’s donation of the same amount to the fund earlier this week.
Why Was a Murder Suspect’s Instagram Taken Down, but Not His Goodreads?
Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of...
Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund
The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago...
Google Unveils A.I. Agent Based on Gemini 2.0
The experimental tool can browse spreadsheets, shopping sites and other services, before taking action on behalf...
Exxon Plans to Sell Electricity to Data Centers
The country’s largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture...
Trump Picks Andrew Ferguson to Lead Federal Trade Commission
Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively...
GM to Shut Down Its Cruise Robotaxi Project
The company said it would now focus its efforts on developing fully autonomous vehicles for personal...