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County clerks and secretaries of state are overwhelmed this year, as they stare down a “perpetual moving target” of new conspiracy theories, political pressure and threats.

Marketing firms are using artificial intelligence to help analyze influencers and predict whether they will opine about the election.

Uber has spent millions trying to get a proposal on the Nevada ballot that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits against companies.

Some states are banning phones in schools to reduce classroom distraction and cyberbullying. Tell us about your experience with tech in schools.

The business executive helped turn Google into an internet juggernaut and became one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.

The billionaire owner of the social media platform X and Tesla’s chief executive will deliver the keynote speech at an annual event.

After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani’s stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.

A proposed $15 million settlement stipulates that account holders can file for losses related to breaches disclosed in 2022 and 2023. A deadline looms for those claims.

Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles.

The Global Alliance for Responsible Media will dissolve after Mr. Musk accused the group of orchestrating a boycott.

The former president’s economic agenda has made some notable reversals from the policies he pushed while in the White House.

Google, Microsoft and Amazon have made deals with A.I. start-ups for their technology and top employees, but have shied from owning the firms. Here’s why.

Compared with the calls for cat ladies, white dudes and others, the group of venture capitalists was small at around 600.

Donald J. Trump’s social network is increasingly relying on a niche of the ad market that caters to hard-core Trump fans and Christian conservatives for revenue.

Over the past few days, the billionaire has posted incendiary comments about violent protests on the social media platform he controls, drawing the ire of the prime minister.

An outlandish idea that President Biden was dead or nearly dead was quickly refuted. Few of the accounts that had spread it online recanted.

In the Bay Area, therapists are embracing a new kind of practice: advising executives on becoming their best selves.

The software company said in a letter that Delta Air Lines had falsely blamed Microsoft for its decision to cancel thousands of flights after a tech outage.

The company claimed that members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media coordinated to dissuade brands from advertising on X.

With a 90 percent share of the A.I. chip market, the company is facing antitrust investigations into the possibility that it could lock in customers or hurt competitors.

Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.

The ruling on Google’s search dominance was the first antitrust decision of the modern internet era in a case against a technology giant.

The federal government has more lawsuits in the pipeline trying to rein in the tech giants, including another antitrust case against Google that goes to trial next month.