In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade

The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large...

‘To the Future’: Saudi Arabia Spends Big to Become an A.I. Superpower

The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of ...

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence. ...

Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again

REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut do...

Meta’s Profits More Than Double, While Spending on A.I. Rises

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp continued to grow, even as it said it would spend billions of dollars more on artificial intel...

Biden Signs TikTok Ban Bill Into Law. Here’s What Happens Next.

President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified ...

On TikTok, Potential Ban of App Leads to Resignation and Frustration

While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with you...

Nina Jankowicz Forms New Group to Defend Disinformation Research

The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their a...

Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA. from NYT > Te...

Start-Up Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud

Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years. from ...

Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter

The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant ...

Micron Will Receive $6.1 Billion to Build Semiconductor Plants

The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing. from NYT > Technology https://...

Atlas, a Humanoid Robot Used for Research, Is Leaping Into Retirement

It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdo...

Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data

In a first, the legislation extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies. from NYT > Technolo...

Tesla’s Board Backs a Pay Package for Elon Musk Struck Down by Judge

The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registr...

Apple Lifts Some Restrictions on iPhone Repairs

This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limit...

Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain a...

George Carlin’s Estate Reaches Settlement After A.I. Podcast

The estate had accused two podcast hosts of infringing on its copyrights by training an A.I. algorithm on five decades of Mr. Carlin’s work....

Love Sticks? There’s an Instagram for That.

Those who appreciate “something as basic as a stick” are sharing their enthusiasm through a newly popular Instagram account. from NYT >...

Google to Delete Billions of Chrome Browser Records in Latest Settlement

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