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Pavel Durov said that the investigation into illicit activity on the messaging app he runs is ongoing, but that he had returned home to Dubai.
Chatbots should be built with enough resilience to deal with difficult emotional situations, researchers said.
President Trump rallied support for Elon Musk’s car company, but there may not be enough conservatives willing to buy electric cars to make up for the Democrats who now shun Teslas.
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.
Mr. Lundstrom was a supporter of far-right causes and, at one point, an unsuccessful candidate for office. He was convicted of aiding copyright infringement in 2009.
She was so prolific — reimagining things as varied as toys, typewriters, umbrellas and ice-cream makers — that she earned the nickname Lady Edison.
In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
The German luxury carmaker said its latest compact sedan solves problems that have kept people from buying electric vehicles.
Online Trump supporters have embraced a unique form of irony that is hard to parse — and easy to deploy with new technologies.
Scopely said it would buy Niantic’s video game business, which includes Pokémon Go, for $3.5 billion. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund acquired Scopely in 2023.
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
The semiconductor pioneer appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a well-known tech investor and executive, as its new leader.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed but don’t quite have the willpower to curb your online habit, your phone can help you manage your time online.
The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
The added capacity for the year was the most from any single source in more than two decades.
The former Google chief executive is taking a controlling interest in Relativity Space, which aims to build low-cost, reusable rockets to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX and to reach Mars.
The company said it would release several seasons of the reality show showcasing Donald J. Trump before he turned to politics.
Several waves of reported outages affected the social media site, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
The president’s attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration’s industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.
Consecutive losses of the Starship rocket suggest that the company’s engineers are not as infallible as its fans may think.
The first-of-its-kind event at the White House with top crypto executives and the president showcased Mr. Trump’s embrace of the once-renegade industry.
In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory pressure on the search giant.
The design tech company is exploring a public offering after regulators stymied its $20 billion sale to the software giant Adobe in 2023.
Mr. Bankman-Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.
The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to accomplish science and technology tasks for NASA and other customers.
“I think Google realizes that this is a once-in-a-generation chance to reinvent the search experience”
The first-of-its-kind reserve would be anchored by a stash of Bitcoin the government already owns, estimated to be worth billions of dollars, the White House’s crypto czar said.
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.
The ticket reselling site joins the social chat app Discord and the artificial intelligence company CoreWeave in pursuing a public offering.
The newly appointed deputy director of the F.B.I. has a long history of criticizing the bureau and its leadership. He has promised “dramatic change.”
Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.
The Taiwanese chip giant TSMC’s plan to invest $100 billion in the United States has been met with anxiety and criticism in its home country.
The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit lost $1.5 billion to North Korean hackers last month — and it all traced back to an account on a free digital storage service.
Under new rules from President Trump’s Commerce Department, a $42 billion high-speed internet effort will no longer favor fiber-optic cable.
The app has become a mainstay of the video game community and young internet users.
Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
The court said that Elon Musk could proceed with other parts of a lawsuit he brought against OpenAI last year.
The court said that Elon Musk could proceed with other parts of a lawsuit he brought against OpenAI last year.
The fires, which the police said were intentionally set, are the latest in a series of attacks against Elon Musk’s company.
The prospect of using taxpayer money to stockpile cryptocurrencies in a national reserve has drawn criticism from lawmakers and investors.
The announcement follows new fund-raising efforts from rivals like OpenAI, which is set to close a deal that values the company at $300 billion, and Elon Musk’s xAI.
The company’s chief executive is expected to announce the semiconductor’s plans at the White House on Monday.
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
The lunar lander is the first of three robotic spacecraft aiming to set down on the moon this year.
Scientists tested a device that showed promise at functioning like virtual reality goggles for your mouth.
The company plans to move users of the pioneering service, which it bought in 2011, to Microsoft Teams.
Xiaomi, which produces smartphones and consumer electronics, delivered 135,000 E.V.s last year after tapping China’s robust manufacturing supply chain.
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