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The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

One bill would require apps like Instagram and TikTok to prioritize young people’s safety, and the other would restrict the collection of consumer data.

As artificial intelligence developers run out of data to train their models, they are turning to “synthetic data” — data made by the A.I. itself.

To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.

The internet giant resolved a lawsuit that claimed it had deceived users by tracking their web activity in the Chrome browser’s private Incognito setting.

“Being a C.E.O. sucks. Elon was right. It is like looking into the abyss and chewing glass.”

Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, made his boldest move on Thursday by accusing Apple of antitrust violations.

A partnership would extend the long relationship between the companies that has helped deliver everything from maps to search on Apple’s devices.

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in California and accused of uploading hundreds of files to the cloud.

The tech giant has recently spent more than $1 billion to resolve several legal claims as more battles with the Justice Department loom.

The company has suspended Gemini’s ability to generate human images while it vowed to fix the historical inaccuracy.

Like Meta, the company opened access to its technology to outside programmers, but kept its most powerful system under wraps.

A year ago, a rogue A.I. tried to break up my marriage. Did the backlash help make chatbots too boring?

The tech company’s plan is similar to one announced two days earlier by Meta, another Silicon Valley giant.

As it races to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google has retired its Bard chatbot and released a more powerful app.

Job cuts, which could continue throughout the year, have created a glum mood at what was arguably Silicon Valley’s most exuberant workplace.

Profits are up and the economy is strong. But the tech industry faces two challenges — dealing with a frenetic work force expansion in the pandemic and building A.I.

A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence.

Google’s parent company reported that sales climbed 13 percent to $86.3 billion while profit jumped 52 percent.