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  1. What the Arrival of A.I. Phones and Computers Means for Our Data

    Apple, Microsoft and Google need more access to our data as they promote new phones and personal computers that are powered by artificial intelligence. Should we trust them?

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

  2. Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone

    Apple and Google are getting up close and personal with user data to craft memos, summarize documents and generate images.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditSisi Yu

  3. The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in A.I. Hype

    OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.

     By Brian X. Chen

    ChatGPT-4o trying to solve a geometry problem
    CreditArsenii Vaselenko for The New York Times

  4. Smartphones Can Now Last 7 Years. Here’s How to Keep Them Working.

    Google and Samsung used to update smartphone software for only three years. That has changed.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

  5. Hey, A.I. Let’s Talk

    Meta, Google and others are driving a renaissance for voice assistants, but people have found the technology uncool for more than a decade.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditDerek Abella

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  1. How to Clean Up Your Phone’s Photo Library to Free Up Space

    Deleting duplicates, bad shots and other unwanted files makes it easier to find the good pictures — and gives you room to take more.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    It may take some time, but scrolling back through your photo library to get rid of similar, boring or blurry pictures can be a space saver.
    CreditApple

  2. Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

    Travel-focused A.I. bots and more eco-friendly transportation options in online maps and search tools can help you quickly organize your seasonal getaway.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Layla is one of the many travel-oriented online services that use artificial intelligence to help plan vacations and other trips.
    CreditLayla

  3. 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.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Backing up your iPhone, left, or Android phone can be automated so you don’t have to think about it until you need to restore lost files.
    CreditApple; Google

  4. Time-Saving Tips for Using Your Phone as a … Telephone

    The latest smartphone software includes tools to help you more easily connect with the people you want to contact — and avoid those you don’t.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    Apple’s Siri, shown here, and other virtual assistants can look up and call telephone numbers for you by voice command or tap.
    CreditApple

  5. How to Give Your Photos and Videos a Vintage Look

    Retro-photography apps that mimic the appearance of analog film formats make your digital files seem like they’re from another era.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    A sampling of retro-photography styles from the Hipstamatic and FIMO apps. The images were captured on either an iPhone 14 Pro Max or a Google Pixel 7 and then transformed with filters to give them all a vintage appearance.
    CreditSoftware by Hipstamatic (3) and FIMO; photographs by J.D. Biersdorfer

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  1. Microsoft Surrenders OpenAI Board Position

    As regulatory scrutiny picks up, the tech giant says it is pleased with the progress OpenAI has made with governance and considers its oversight role unnecessary.

     By Tripp Mickle

    OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, speaks with Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, during Microsoft’s annual engineering and development conference in Seattle in May.
    CreditGrant Hindsley for The New York Times

  2. Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early

    The company said it effectively got all of the electricity it used last year from sources that did not produce greenhouse gas emissions. Some experts have faulted the company’s calculations.

     By Ivan Penn and Eli Tan

    An Amazon-owned data center in Ashburn, Va. Data centers run by tech firms are expected to be one of the leading sources of growth in electricity demand for years to come.
    CreditNathan Howard for The New York Times

  3. F.T.C. Bars Anonymous Messaging App From Serving Users Under Age 18

    The move against the app NGL by the Federal Trade Commission was the first time the agency barred an online service from hosting minors.

     By Cecilia Kang

    Kristin Bride, the mother of a 16-year-old who killed himself in 2020 after he was cyberbullied on anonymous messaging apps, had filed a complaint against NGL to the Federal Trade Commission in October.
    CreditAmanda Lucier for The New York Times

  4. U.S. Plans Up to $1.6 Billion in Funding for Packaging Computer Chips

    The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.

     By Don Clark

    Vice President Kamala Harris held a semiconductor wafer at Applied Materials in Sunnyvale, Calif., last year.
    CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times
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