Tensions Rise in Silicon Valley Over Sales of Start-Up Stocks
The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
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The market for shares of hot start-ups like SpaceX and Stripe is projected to reach a record $64 billion this year.
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Judge Amit P. Mehta must now decide whether Google violated the law, potentially setting a precedent for a series of tech monopoly cases.
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As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.
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Hundreds of marketers and ad agency types flocked to TikTok’s annual sales presentation after a new law put its future in question.
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Role-Play With Your Friends as Influencers Dying to Go Viral
The horror video game Content Warning, a surprise hit, lets players microdose as momentary celebrities on the fictional website SpookTube.
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Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.
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Meta’s A.I. Assistant Is Fun to Use, but It Can’t Be Trusted
Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.
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The Basics of Smartphone Backups
It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.
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This Artificially Intelligent Pin Wants to Free You From Your Phone
The $700 Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful — until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.
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We want to hear from lawyers using generative A.I. to better understand how firms incorporate or train the technology.
By Noam Scheiber
The automaker led by Elon Musk is no longer planning to take the lead in expanding the number of places to fuel electric vehicles. It’s not clear how quickly other companies will fill the gap.
By Jack Ewing and Ivan Penn
With the company facing a ban in the U.S., Shou Chew is expected to join Zendaya, Bad Bunny and Anna Wintour on the red carpet.
By Jacob Bernstein, Madison Malone Kircher and Sapna Maheshwari
A synthetic chief executive, a bot trained on employees’ personalities, and a regular duel with ChatGPT — our listeners brought us their stories.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Rowan Niemisto
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
By Nico Grant
The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens.
By Tripp Mickle
Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.
By Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, social interaction and commerce.
By David McCabe
The company also reported that profit more than tripled, to $10.4 billion, topping Wall Street expectations.
By Karen Weise
The carmaker dismissed 500 employees in a unit that was critical to its success and seen as important to the future of electric vehicle sales in the United States.
By Jack Ewing
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, had pleaded guilty to a money-laundering violation.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
With the help of Joe Rogan, a social media trend with staying power emerged from a 2018 book, “The Carnivore Diet.”
By Steven Kurutz
Modern cars are internet-connected and have hundreds of sensors. Lawmakers and regulators have concerns about what’s happening with all that data.
By Kashmir Hill
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With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects.
By Kenneth Chang
The company had expanded quickly to keep ahead of rivals, but like other pandemic darlings, its business lost steam after lockdowns were eased.
By Eshe Nelson
As dissatisfaction with online dating grows, the app that put women in control is shifting course.
By Valeriya Safronova
The inquiry is intended to pressure the tech giant to more aggressively police Facebook and Instagram ahead of the European Union’s closely watched elections in June.
By Adam Satariano
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?
By Oliver Whang
Since pleading guilty to violating money-laundering rules, Changpeng Zhao, who ran the giant crypto exchange Binance, has networked across the United States to set up his next act.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Cade Metz
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.
By Cade Metz, Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.
By Cade Metz and Nico Grant
The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
By Karen Weise
Meta has already spent billions on developing artificial intelligence, and it plans to spend billions more.
By Marie Solis
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The National Highway Safety Administration also released an analysis of crashes involving the system that showed at least 29 fatal accidents over five and a half years.
By J. Edward Moreno
“A clock is ticking on one of America’s most famous apps.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Davis Land, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto
The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.
By Yiwen Lu
A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.
By Natasha Singer
Google’s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.
By Nico Grant
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.
By Karen Weise
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