Technology

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

By Mike Isaac

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen.

By Catherine Pearson

A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.

By Meaghan Tobin

The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.

By Cade Metz

European Union officials accused the American tech giant of using its size and dominance to undercut rivals in online advertising, a move that could raise the ire of the Trump administration.

By Adam Satariano and Jeanna Smialek

“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto

Tesla’s board unveiled a compensation package for the chief executive that could be worth $900 billion if he meets ambitious targets.

By Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis

YouTube’s live broadcast on Friday night of the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers game is set to be a major test of the platform’s programming ambitions.

By Tripp Mickle

Scammers are using A.I. tools to make it look as if medical professionals are promoting dubious health care products.

By Steven Lee Myers, Alice Callahan and Teddy Rosenbluth

He and a partner made their co-working locations feel like private clubs. Among his other ventures, he sought to slash the cost of in vitro fertilization by using robotics and A.I.

By Alex Williams

A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.

By Steve Lohr

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

By Mattathias Schwartz

The judge’s decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption.

By Tripp Mickle and Cecilia Kang

Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted.

By David McCabe

The artificial intelligence start-up garnered another $13 billion as its valuation rose by nearly three times, from $61.5 billion earlier this year, amid a frenzy over the technology.

By Cade Metz

The European Union is expected to penalize the company, which has been accused of breaching the Digital Services Act, a law President Trump has criticized.

By David Meyer

The technology seems to be everywhere these days. We’ll find experts to answer your questions.

By the staff of The Morning

Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.

By Stuart A. Thompson, Teresa Mondría Terol, Kate Conger and Dylan Freedman

The term, which was popularized by a “Star Wars” show and is rooted in real frustrations with technology, has become a go-to slur against artificial intelligence and robots.

By Eli Tan

Builder.ai went from a value of $1.5 billion to zero in a few months, amid questions over the sales of an A.I. product. Its downfall hints at a broader downturn.

By David Streitfeld

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.

By William J. Broad

Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.

By The New York Times

“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

Electric models from the luxury car brand have been very successful, but they may struggle once a $7,500 federal tax credit ends next month.

By Lawrence Ulrich

The chipmaker, now the most valuable public company in the world, said strong demand for its chips should continue this quarter.

By Tripp Mickle

It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.

By Choe Sang-Hun

The trillions of dollars that tech companies are pouring into new data centers are starting to show up in economic growth. For now, at least.

By Lydia DePillis

The two PACs reflect a new level of political engagement by companies like Meta and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, which are spending heavily on artificial intelligence.

By Theodore Schleifer and Eli Tan

After setbacks during the last three launches of Starship, Elon Musk’s rocket splashed down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday night.

By Kenneth Chang

The White House suggested that countries with digital regulations restricting U.S. tech companies could face penalties. The question is whether Europe can stand firm.

By Jeanna Smialek and Adam Satariano

More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.

By Kashmir Hill

Weather interfered on Monday night with the ability of Elon Musk’s company to show it could overcome setbacks faced by its Starship prototype.

By Kenneth Chang

Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, claimed that its Grok chatbot app was being artificially suppressed in Apple’s App Store.

By Kate Conger

Elon Musk’s company says it will try again on Monday for the next trip of its Starship prototype, which experienced setbacks during its last three flights.

By Kenneth Chang

A clever leak exposed the music habits of some famous people — and two Times journalists.

By Mike Isaac

The “Panama Playlists” exposed the Spotify listening habits of some famous people — and two journalists who didn’t know as much about protecting their privacy as they had thought.

By Mike Isaac and Kashmir Hill

The Silicon Valley chipmaker’s journey from icon to a government project, with the sale of a 10 percent stake to the Trump administration, underlines how even the mightiest in tech can fall.

By Tripp Mickle and Don Clark

The man, a former software developer for Eaton Corporation, wrote malicious code that crashed servers on the company’s network in 2019, prosecutors said.

By Hannah Ziegler

The settlements are an about-face for the billionaire, whose company fought with former workers over whether it owed them severance pay.

By Kate Conger

The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

By Tripp Mickle, Lauren Hirsch and Ana Swanson

“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, John Woo, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.

By Ephrat Livni

Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

By Tripp Mickle

Raphaël Graven, known online as Jean Pormanove, was regularly subjected to humiliation and abuse on Kick, a streaming platform.

By Jenny Gross and Adam Satariano

In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary idea: to create a place where women could find a work-life balance.

By Jeré Longman

His work on complex systems and responsive technologies helped lay the groundwork for later work on artificial intelligence.

By Clay Risen

At $500 billion, OpenAI would become the world’s most valuable privately held company.

By Cade Metz and Natallie Rocha

Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.

By Mike Isaac and Eli Tan

A.I.-powered tools can help you plan trips, squeeze value out of loyalty programs and translate languages. But don’t give up Google Flights just yet.

By Gabe Castro-Root

The Trump administration said law enforcement organizations in Britain would back off asking the company for a tool for access to customers’ data.

By Tripp Mickle

Federal officials are considering the move because Intel, the last leading-edge chipmaker in the United States, has been struggling.

By Lauren Hirsch and Tripp Mickle

The prices of used electric cars have fallen sharply in recent months, making them a more attractive option.

By Jack Ewing

The Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — featuring running, kickboxing and soccer — highlighted advancements in robotics. Limitations, too.

By Yan Zhuang

Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.

By Sapna Maheshwari

The agency began looking into the liberal watchdog group’s research critical of Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, in May.

By Kate Conger

Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said he would look into whether the social media company’s artificial intelligence technology endangers children.

By Cecilia Kang

“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, John Woo, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

By Amanda Hess and Sara Messinger

Elon Musk’s rocket company relies on federal contracts, but years of losses have most likely let it avoid paying federal income taxes, according to internal company documents.

By Susanne Craig and Kirsten Grind

A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.

By Michael S. Rosenwald