Technology

The brainy machines are predicting global weather patterns with new speed and precision, doing in minutes and seconds what once took hours.

By William J. Broad

Tesla says self-driving taxis will power its growth, but the company hasn’t said when such a service would be ready or how much it would increase profits.

By Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis

Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.

By Melissa Eddy

In its first detailed response to a legal challenge, the agency said TikTok’s proposed changes wouldn’t prevent China from using it to collect U.S. users’ data or spread propaganda.

By David McCabe and Sapna Maheshwari

Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

By Kashmir Hill

The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind.

By Sara Ruberg

An episode unburdened by what has been.

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

The prominent A.I. start-up said it planned to eventually fold the new technology into its popular online chatbot, ChatGPT.

By Cade Metz

The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.

By Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning

Passed by voters in 2020, the ballot measure classifies drivers of ride-hailing apps as independent contractors rather than as employees.

By Eli Tan

In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.

By Meaghan Tobin and Cade Metz

A.I. is getting good at math — and might soon make a worthy collaborator for humans.

By Siobhan Roberts

The trend of “underconsumption core” romanticizes buying and using only what you need. Yes, being normal is now trending. Experts say it’s a response to a period of economic hardship.

By Remy Tumin

The social media company will use its Community Notes program to moderate lies about the election, but cracks are already appearing.

By Kate Conger

The move adds more than 500 to the unionized video game staff at Microsoft, which has pledged to remain neutral on organizing efforts.

By John Yoon

Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.

By Aaron Krolik and Paul Mozur

The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.

By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang

Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud unit, and it said A.I. investments were “driving new growth.”

By Nico Grant

The company led by Elon Musk is selling fewer electric cars, and its big bets on driverless taxis and artificial intelligence could take many years to pay off.

By Neal E. Boudette

The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the technology was not controlled by a handful of giant companies — including his own.

By Mike Isaac

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, made the announcement after the airline suspended travel for unaccompanied minors.

By Christine Hauser

General Motors said the self-driving division’s cars will run in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix after an accident last year. Human drivers will supervise the cars.

By Neal E. Boudette

A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.

By Steve Lohr

Wiz’s chief executive said the company walked away from a “humbling offer” and would pursue an initial public offering instead.

By Nico Grant

The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify on the disruption.

By David McCabe

President Biden, who has been sidelined with Covid, is set to address the nation this week.

By Stuart A. Thompson

Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has re-energized Democrats across the tech industry and may blunt that momentum.

By Erin Griffith

Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is inspiring a lot of strong feelings.

By Joseph Bernstein

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg singled out the airline on Sunday for ongoing disruptions and “unacceptable” customer service as it continued to cancel flights.

By Christine Chung and Yan Zhuang

The General Motors sports car, which enjoyed strong sales after a big design change, now has a hybrid version and may get a fully electric model that may turn off some gas-loving customers.

By Lawrence Ulrich

While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.

By David Streitfeld and Kate Conger

With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn’t caused by an adversary, but it provided a road map of American vulnerabilities at a critical moment.

By David E. Sanger

Viewership peaked on Thursday night starting around the 15-minute mark of Donald Trump’s speech, as he delivered a vivid reconstruction of last weekend’s assassination attempt.

By John Koblin

Here’s a visual explanation for how a faulty software update crippled machines.

By Lazaro Gamio

Airlines to banks to retailers were affected in many countries. Businesses are struggling to recover.

By Eshe Nelson and Danielle Kaye

“The 2024 internet is just different than the internet we lived on four years ago.”

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.

By Kevin Roose

Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.

By Nico Grant and Cade Metz

Meta is discussing taking a stake of as much as 5 percent of EssilorLuxottica, which makes eyewear brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley, people with knowledge of the talks said.

By Mike Isaac

Ford, General Motors and other automakers are slowing investments in electric vehicles and doubling down on more profitable gasoline cars and trucks.

By Neal E. Boudette

Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.

By Sapna Maheshwari and Ken Bensinger

Spain has become reliant on an algorithm to score how likely a domestic violence victim may be abused again and what protection to provide — sometimes leading to fatal consequences.

By Adam Satariano and Roser Toll Pifarré

Spookiness meets the heat in a holiday now gaining traction online.

By Steven Kurutz

Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick has indicated he favors a hands-off approach to A.I. but also wants to increase scrutiny of the biggest tech firms in the field.

By Cecilia Kang

Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

By Ryan Mac and Theodore Schleifer

The social media and rocket companies are based in California, which the billionaire criticized for its recent transgender legislation.

By Kate Conger and Eli Tan

The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.

By David Streitfeld

The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.

By Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that Mr. Trump staged the attack, started quickly and spread fast across social media.

By Tiffany Hsu, Sheera Frenkel and Ken Bensinger

The search giant’s negotiations to buy Wiz, a cybersecurity start-up, for $23 billion, come as the Biden administration has taken a hard line against consolidation in tech and other industries.

By Nico Grant and Lauren Hirsch

Rental car firms are offering temporary deals on electric cars, which they are selling after they lost value more quickly than expected.

By Jack Ewing and Dionne Searcey

Microsoft’s all-in moment on artificial intelligence has been defined by billions in spending and a C.E.O. counting on technology with huge potential and huge risks.

By Karen Weise and Cade Metz

As a science reporter, Katrina Miller covers the cosmos, innovations in physics, space exploration and more.

By Josh Ocampo

While Mr. Schmidt was chief executive of Google, he had an extramarital relationship with Marcy Simon, a public relations executive. A decade after they split, things are still messy.

By John Carreyrou

The malfunction, the first since 2016, ended a streak of more than 300 successful launches for the Falcon 9 rocket.

By Kenneth Chang

For struggling American video game companies, Saudi Arabia’s investments in the industry have been hard to resist. Not all gamers are happy about it.

By Eli Tan and Katarina Premfors

Answers to your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology.

By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Rowan Niemisto

Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.

By Stuart A. Thompson

Thanks to a software program, the length, structure and contents of the movie are reconfigured each time it’s shown. It’s the only way the musician would agree to the project.

By Rob Tannenbaum

Researchers have learned plenty about misinformation and how it spreads. But they’re still struggling to figure out how to stop it.

By Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson

Major telecom companies agreed to stop using critical components made by Chinese companies in their mobile infrastructure by 2029.

By Christopher F. Schuetze

Customers in Europe may see an influx of new apps and services for making tap-and-go purchases.

By Adam Satariano

Ignore vitriol, or turn it into content? Creators like Kacie Rose and Drew Afualo share their tips for dealing with a harsh comments section.

By Melina Delkic

A Jeep plant that closed last year will be among those that will benefit from federal grants meant to help automotive manufacturers and protect jobs.

By Jack Ewing

SpaceX employees are working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm.

By Kirsten Grind

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

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

Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.

By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Jin Yu Young

A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.

By Jack Ewing

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

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

As diagnoses of autism rise, Microsoft and other large companies are working to better support autistic workers so they can thrive without “masking.”

By Steven Kurutz

David Ellison is poised to soon run Paramount Pictures, among other entertainment assets. But what does that mean in a fractured cultural landscape?

By Brooks Barnes

The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.

By Edward Wong and Ana Swanson

Growth in electric vehicle sales has been slowing, but the Italian luxury carmaker is stepping up investment and setting ambitious targets.

By Bernhard Warner

Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

By Natasha Singer

In a sequel to his much-mocked hydrofoil video, the Meta founder celebrates the Fourth of July in his own particular way.

By Alex Vadukul

One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices.

By John Yoon, Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya

Ted Sarandos, a chief executive of Netflix, on the future of entertainment.

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Wyatt Orme, Anabel Bacon, Allison Benedikt, Brad Fisher, Efim Shapiro, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano and Devin Yalkin

Kevin Roose and Casey Newton reflect on the success of their podcast and look toward what’s next.

By Josh Ocampo