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Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?

Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the ...

NYT > Technology, Oct 5, 2025 - 05:35

Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapab...

Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards

Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards

NYT > Technology, Oct 5, 2025 - 05:35

Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor r...

Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75

Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75

NYT > Technology, Oct 3, 2025 - 18:03

A pharmacologist, she was certain Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-testing idea would fa...

Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express

Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Ther...

NYT > Technology, Oct 3, 2025 - 09:01

“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant A.I. supercomputers at people’s ...

OpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion

OpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion

NYT > Technology, Oct 2, 2025 - 15:01

With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held comp...

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and...

NYT > Technology, Oct 2, 2025 - 13:09

Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise ...

We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work

We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work

NYT > Technology, Oct 2, 2025 - 05:11

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for A...

California’s Gavin Newsom Signs Major AI Safety Law

California’s Gavin Newsom Signs Major AI Safety Law

NYT > Technology, Sep 30, 2025 - 10:35

Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one ...

Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up

Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for ...

NYT > Technology, Sep 30, 2025 - 05:38

Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intel...

YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million

YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension f...

NYT > Technology, Sep 29, 2025 - 20:53

Mr. Trump had sued Alphabet, the parent of YouTube and Google, and other social ...

The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture

The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Bra...

NYT > Technology, Sep 26, 2025 - 08:06

“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world sayin...

Microsoft Disables Some Services to Israel’s Defense Ministry

Microsoft Disables Some Services to Israel’s Defense Mi...

NYT > Technology, Sep 25, 2025 - 17:53

Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its ...

Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion in Prime Membership Settlement

Amazon to Pay $2.5 Billion in Prime Membership Settlement

NYT > Technology, Sep 25, 2025 - 14:04

The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commiss...

Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Provide Grok Chatbot to US Agencies

Elon Musk’s xAI Signs Deal to Provide Grok Chatbot to U...

NYT > Technology, Sep 25, 2025 - 10:06

The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with ...

Intel Said to Seek Investment From Apple

Intel Said to Seek Investment From Apple

NYT > Technology, Sep 24, 2025 - 21:55

The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its fina...

How to Use Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16

How to Use Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16

NYT > Technology, Sep 24, 2025 - 05:36

Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features...

OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Centers in U.S.

OpenAI to Join Tech Giants in Building 5 New Data Cente...

NYT > Technology, Sep 23, 2025 - 17:31

Working with the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and the cloud company Oracle, th...

YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Related to the Pandemic and 2020 Election

YouTube to Reinstate Accounts Banned Over Content Relat...

NYT > Technology, Sep 23, 2025 - 15:34

The streaming platform unveiled its plan in a letter to the House Judiciary Comm...

U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology Monopoly

U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Techno...

NYT > Technology, Sep 22, 2025 - 17:04

The Justice Department argued that the best way to address the company’s unfair ...

A Judge’s Decision Could Disrupt Google’s $3.1 Trillion Business

A Judge’s Decision Could Disrupt Google’s $3.1 Trillion...

NYT > Technology, Sep 22, 2025 - 12:05

On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to ...

Can Google Avoid a Breakup Twice?

Can Google Avoid a Breakup Twice?

NYT > Technology, Sep 22, 2025 - 05:16

On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to ...

Amazon Faces Trial on F.T.C. Charges Related to Prime Service

Amazon Faces Trial on F.T.C. Charges Related to Prime S...

NYT > Technology, Sep 22, 2025 - 05:16

A trial in federal court in Seattle will determine if millions of customers sign...

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses

Seeing Through the Reality of Meta’s Smart Glasses

NYT > Technology, Sep 20, 2025 - 05:31

Mark Zuckerberg’s glitch-filled unveiling of computerized glasses revealed a com...

How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper

How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper

NYT > Technology, Sep 19, 2025 - 10:12

Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplect...

Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.

Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip...

NYT > Technology, Sep 19, 2025 - 07:33

“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington

NYT > Technology, Sep 18, 2025 - 19:26

Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to...

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

NYT > Technology, Sep 18, 2025 - 12:37

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how ...

Whose Punctuation Is More Human: Yours or A.I.’s?

Whose Punctuation Is More Human: Yours or A.I.’s?

NYT > Technology, Sep 18, 2025 - 07:07

The debate about ChatGPT’s use of the em dash signifies a shift in not only how ...

Apple’s New AirPods Offer Impressive Language Translation

Apple’s New AirPods Offer Impressive Language Translation

NYT > Technology, Sep 18, 2025 - 07:07

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligen...

Meta Unveils Smart Glasses With Apps and an Artificial Intelligence Assistant

Meta Unveils Smart Glasses With Apps and an Artificial ...

NYT > Technology, Sep 17, 2025 - 21:56

At its annual developer conference on Wednesday, Meta showed several new smart g...

What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s a Guide.

What Exactly Are A.I. Companies Trying to Build? Here’s...

NYT > Technology, Sep 16, 2025 - 06:06

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI plan to spend at least $325 billion b...

New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push Industry Agenda

New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push ...

NYT > Technology, Sep 15, 2025 - 18:53

The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry’s latest move to h...

Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Democratic Party.

Lina Khan Revamped Antitrust. Now She’s Pushing the Dem...

NYT > Technology, Sep 14, 2025 - 06:16

The youngest chair in the history of the Federal Trade Commission is campaigning...

Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

NYT > Technology, Sep 12, 2025 - 09:06

“There’s only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in yo...

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down

NYT > Technology, Sep 12, 2025 - 06:34

Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. N...

Mentions of ‘Civil War’ Surge Online After Charlie Kirk Shooting

Mentions of ‘Civil War’ Surge Online After Charlie Kirk...

NYT > Technology, Sep 12, 2025 - 06:34

The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political mom...

OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization

OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorgani...

NYT > Technology, Sep 11, 2025 - 18:54

The start-up OpenAI reached a tentative deal with Microsoft, its biggest investo...

Wild Speculation and Misinformation on Charlie Kirk Shooting Spreads on Social Media

Wild Speculation and Misinformation on Charlie Kirk Sho...

NYT > Technology, Sep 11, 2025 - 17:26

Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories...

F.T.C. Starts Inquiry Into A.I. Chatbots and Child Safety

F.T.C. Starts Inquiry Into A.I. Chatbots and Child Safety

NYT > Technology, Sep 11, 2025 - 15:30

The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major te...

Scammers Are Using Fake Reviews to Extort Small Businesses

Scammers Are Using Fake Reviews to Extort Small Businesses

NYT > Technology, Sep 11, 2025 - 06:43

Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star rev...

Senators Demand Answers From Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp Security

Senators Demand Answers From Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsAp...

NYT > Technology, Sep 10, 2025 - 16:54

Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday a...

OpenAI Signs $300 Billion Data Center Pact With Tech Giant Oracle

OpenAI Signs $300 Billion Data Center Pact With Tech Gi...

NYT > Technology, Sep 10, 2025 - 16:54

The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to ...

Apple Introduces iPhone 17, iPhone Air and Updated AirPods at Annual Event

Apple Introduces iPhone 17, iPhone Air and Updated AirP...

NYT > Technology, Sep 9, 2025 - 16:34

The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones,...

United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Away A.I. Technology

United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Awa...

NYT > Technology, Sep 9, 2025 - 09:35

The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with Open...

A Tech Reporter’s Side Gig: Music Writing

A Tech Reporter’s Side Gig: Music Writing

NYT > Technology, Sep 8, 2025 - 11:37

Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about b...

A.I. Could Make the Smartphone Passé. What Comes Next?

A.I. Could Make the Smartphone Passé. What Comes Next?

NYT > Technology, Sep 8, 2025 - 05:38

As Apple prepares to release new iPhones this week, industry veterans shared the...

Jean Twenge Is Still Warning Parents About Teens and Screen Time. Is Anyone Listening?

Jean Twenge Is Still Warning Parents About Teens and Sc...

NYT > Technology, Sep 6, 2025 - 05:32

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit ...

NYT > Technology, Sep 5, 2025 - 15:05

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and ...

A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of E...

NYT > Technology, Sep 5, 2025 - 09:36

“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that...

The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds

The Doctors Are Real, but the Sales Pitches Are Frauds

NYT > Technology, Sep 5, 2025 - 06:38

Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are pr...