Computers and the Internet

Ford and G.M. Face a Dilemma as China Excels in Electric Vehicles
[ad_1] Perhaps no business needs certainty more than the auto industry. It usually takes at least four years to design a new model and bring it to market, requiring carmakers...
Instagram to Alert Parents to Teens’ Self-Harm Searches
[ad_1] Instagram will begin notifying parents when their teenage children use the platform to repeatedly search for terms related to suicide or self-harm.The alerts “are designed to give parents the...
Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War
[ad_1] The fight between the Department of Defense and the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has ostensibly been about a $200 million contract over the use of A.I. in classified systems.But...
OpenAI Raises $110 Billion Led by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, Extending A.I. Boom
[ad_1] OpenAI said on Friday that it had raised $110 billion from investors to pay for its continued growth and to fuel the development of artificial intelligence, valuing the company...
What Larry and David Ellison Would Own After Warner Bros. Takeover
[ad_1] CBSEven in the diminished state of broadcast television, CBS, which the Ellisons took over with the Paramount deal last year, remains a powerful weapon. The network owns marquee sports...
Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas
[ad_1] In 2020, Elon Musk announced he was moving to Texas from California and embarking on a personal austerity campaign to strip his life of belongings.“I am selling almost all...
Video: How ICE Is Pushing Tech Companies to Identify Protesters
[ad_1] new video loaded: How ICE Is Pushing Tech Companies to Identify ProtestersThe DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting ICE. Social...
Video: Can You Rely on A.I. to Translate Love?
[ad_1] A.I. translation has become a huge industry, but how accurate is it? Our tech reporter, Kashmir Hill, explores its successes and failures through a couple who relies on of...
Apple’s iPhones Fuel Record Sales and Profit
[ad_1] After several years of slow sales, Apple turned to a years-old strategy to boost its business by raising prices on the iPhone.On Thursday, the tech giant reported that increasing...
Steve Hayden, Writer Behind Apple’s ‘1984’ Commercial, Dies at 78
[ad_1] Steve Hayden, an award-winning advertising writer and executive who helped create the thunderclap of a television commercial in 1984 that positioned Apple’s new Macintosh personal computer as a weapon...
Can The Washington Post’s TikTok Guy Make It Without The Post?
[ad_1] For years, Dave Jorgenson has been nearly synonymous with The Washington Post on social media. He has been a familiar bearded face of the brand on TikTok and YouTube,...
Google Hires Top A.I. Leaders From Windsurf, Which OpenAI Was Courting
[ad_1] Google has joined Silicon Valley’s scramble to scoop up artificial intelligence engineers, hiring the leaders of Windsurf, a start-up that developed an A.I.-powered computer programming tool.The deal, which became...