Technology

Granting an injunction to several plaintiffs, a judge said the Federal Trade Commission’s pending ban on noncompete agreements was unlikely to prevail.

Biden administration officials hope the money will help propel technological innovation in areas that have historically received less government funding.

A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.

The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.

Driven by the war with Russia, many Ukrainian companies are working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology.

The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.

Regulators said the subscription service introduced last year is a “pay or consent” method to collect personal data and bolster advertising.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo published findings on a method of attaching artificial skin to robot faces to protect machinery and mimic human expressiveness.

The Detroit Police Department arrested three people after bad facial recognition matches, a national record. But it’s adopting new policies that even the A.C.L.U. endorses.

A little something for everyone: lawsuits, fighter jets and Casey in a bucket hat.

Even as the technology advances, stubborn stereotypes about women are re-encoded again and again.

The deal, which includes a $175 million settlement with the state, keeps the drivers classified as independent contractors, not employees.

The disruption affected mostly visitors with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon service, cutting them off data networks across the continent for 24 hours or more.

A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.

NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.

The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.

Can artificial intelligence devise a bucket-list vacation that checks all the boxes: culture, nature, hotels and transportation? Our reporter put three virtual assistants to the test.

Rattled by tech’s latest trend, businesses have turned to advisers at Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey and KPMG for guidance on adopting generative artificial intelligence.

Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.

After a year of safety problems, layoffs and mass executive departures, G.M. is trying to find stability for its futuristic driverless car business.

VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.

The tech giant has been accused of stifling competition by packaging its video conferencing app with other tools like Word and Excel.

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A new study showed people real restaurant reviews and ones produced by A.I. They couldn’t tell the difference.

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The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.

The company’s App Store policies are illegal under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, according to regulators in Brussels.

SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.

People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.

Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say.

The attacks on a software provider, CDK Global, affect systems that store customer records and automate paperwork and data for sales and service.

Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendy’s say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.

Will a social media warning really help children’s mental health?

The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.

Ilya Sutskever’s new start-up, Safe Superintelligence, aims to build A.I. technologies that are smarter than a human but not dangerous.

The chip maker’s stock price has jumped over the last year thanks to its stranglehold on the market for the chips needed to build A.I. systems.

A year after the first deaths of divers who ventured into the ocean’s sunless depths, an industry wrestles with new challenges for piloted submersibles and robotic explorers.

An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.

The maker of Photoshop and other popular design software hid details of expensive cancellation fees, according to a Justice Department lawsuit.

The industry’s political awakening — and enormous pool of cash — is already affecting high-profile races across the country.

Artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are finding widest use at big companies, but there is wide expectation that the impact will spread.

She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.

About 72 percent of shares in the balloting affirmed the chief executive’s lucrative stock award. The company hopes to get a court to reinstate it.

“They really sort of make you feel like it’s Christmas and Coachella at the same time.”

His keyboard, which became famous after Tom Hanks melodiously hopped on it, displayed Mr. Saraceni’s vision of technology powered by “people energy.”

The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.

On the social media platform X, which Mr. Musk owns, reactions to a vote that reaffirmed Mr. Musk’s $45 billion package were buoyant.

Still, Elon Musk, who owns the platform, and his chief executive Linda Yaccarino, have work to do to grow the business, leaders told employees.

The vote was seen as a referendum on his management of the electric car maker and on the limits of executive pay.

Brad Smith testified before a House committee a year after Chinese hackers infiltrated Microsoft’s technology and penetrated government networks.

Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.

Christopher Blair, a renowned “liberal troll” who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I.

A popular term captures the condition of being terminally online, with humor and pathos.

Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.

A huge run-up in the stock’s value followed a 2018 vote on Elon Musk’s compensation package. But investors have recently become less enamored.

The vote is seen as a referendum on the limits of executive pay and the accountability of Silicon Valley billionaires.

The tariffs had been expected for months, but many European automakers warned that they would drive up prices for consumers and set off a trade war with China.

Leaders in Brussels, Washington and beyond are trying to curb China’s automobile ambitions amid rising trade tensions and fears of a glut of Chinese cars flooding global markets.

The Tesla chief executive had claimed that the A.I. start-up put profits and commercial interests ahead of benefiting humanity.

Word puzzles on LinkedIn. Logic challenges in The Washington Post. For news publishers and tech sites looking to both entice and engage users, games are serious business.

Created by alumni from Meta and Google, Mistral is just a year old and has already raised more than $1 billion in total from investors, leading to eye-popping valuations.

A new term has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material.

The groups say they are increasingly confused and frustrated by how major technology platforms moderate posts about abortion services.

The $3,500 “spatial computing” device has gathered dust on my shelf. Can tweaks and upgrades save it from obsolescence?

The iPhone maker, which has been slow to embrace artificial intelligence, will weave it into the technology that runs on billions of devices.

California legislators have made the biggest push to pass new laws to rein in the technology. Colorado passed one protecting consumers.

Apple, a latecomer to artificial intelligence, has struck a deal with OpenAI and developed tools to improve its Siri voice assistant, which it is set to showcase on Monday.

The insurance industry, hungry for insights into how people drive, has turned to automakers and smartphone apps like Life360.

Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Here’s what to know.

It turns out A.I. is surprisingly Canadian.

The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.

The company achieved a key set of ambitious goals on the fourth test flight of a vehicle that is central to Elon Musk’s vision of sending people to Mars.

Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.

Tech companies are running low on new experiences to offer us. A new ad for the iPad contains revealing hints of where they could go next.

BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.

Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.

Some science fiction authors have been using the concept of artificial intelligence in their books for decades. Try this short quiz to see how many works you remember.

Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

It was the latest example of journalists having to weigh the news value of a major political moment against the challenges of reporting on a candidate who regularly speaks in falsehoods.

The Tesla chief executive is taking to his social media company to press shareholders to vote for a critical pay package on June 13.

“Pass me the nontoxic glue and a couple of rocks, because it’s time to whip up a meal with Google’s new A.I. Overviews.”

Our tech columnist reviews GPT-4o, OpenAI’s latest chatbot technology, in its partly finished state.

The social media platform will produce video town halls with Mr. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., extending its push into politics.