Intel, a fallen Silicon Valley icon trying to restore its reputation as America’s most prominent semiconductor company, has named Lip-Bu Tan, an experienced business and… Read More »Intel Names Lip-Bu Tan as New CEO Amid Turnaround Efforts
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To win the artificial intelligence race, Google has not only developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to… Read More »Inside Google’s Investment in Anthropic
For a decade, Eric Schmidt ran Google as chief executive and as the “adult” in the room, mentoring the internet company’s young founders, Larry Page… Read More »Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space as C.E.O.
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Amazon is deepening its relationship with President Trump. Amazon Prime Video announced on Monday that multiple seasons of “The Apprentice,” the 2000s reality series that… Read More »‘The Apprentice,’ Starring Donald Trump, Begins Streaming on Amazon
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems… Read More »Is X Down? Users Report Intermittent Outages
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The artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic said on Monday that it had completed a new fund-raising deal that valued the company at $61.5 billion, up from… Read More »A.I. Start-Up Anthropic Closes Deal That Values It at $61.5 Billion
President Trump on Monday said Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, will spend $100 billion in the United States over the next… Read More »TSMC, the Chip Giant, Is to Spend $100 Billion in U.S. Over the Next 4 Years
The crypto market gives and takes: After President Trump’s plan for a national crypto reserve drew backlash from both Republicans and investors, the prices of… Read More »What is Trump’s Crypto Reserve Plan?
In November, Elon Musk asked a federal court to block OpenAI’s plan to transform itself from a nonprofit into a purely for-profit company. On Tuesday,… Read More »Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan
In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, began exploring a new theory that neurons behaved like hedonists. The basic… Read More »Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton
In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the… Read More »The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0
The Trump administration said on Wednesday that it would overhaul a $42 billion federal grant program aimed at expanding high-speed internet to the nation, including… Read More »Federal Grant Program Opens Door to Elon Musk’s Starlink
Discord, the social chat app popular with the video game community, has met with investment bankers in recent weeks to discuss preparations for an initial… Read More »Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.
On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared… Read More »How the Crypto Exchange Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion to North Korean Hackers
Seven Tesla charging stations were intentionally set on fire on Monday at a shopping center outside Boston, the police said, the latest in a series… Read More »7 Tesla Charging Stations Torched Near Boston
To hear Dan Bongino describe it, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is “the single most corrupt law enforcement institution” in America and a “full-blown leftist… Read More »How Dan Bongino Would Run the F.B.I., According to Dan Bongino
In 2010, a woman in Sakura, Japan, posted photos of her well-manicured Shiba Inu to her digital journal. The dog, Kabosu, shot her owner a… Read More »How Elon Musk Uses Internet Slang to Marshal His Army of Online Fans
StubHub, a ticketing software company, has held talks with bankers in recent weeks about holding an initial public offering before the end of the year,… Read More »StubHub Eyes Potential I.P.O. as Soon as This Year
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south… Read More »Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, but Its Fate Is Unclear
This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio… Read More »Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, an audacious idea that has been… Read More »Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve’
A tech industry veteran, Mike McCue sees an opening for a different kind of internet where algorithms don’t call the shots. Mr. McCue, the chief… Read More »Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms
A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an update on its website… Read More »Intuitive Machines Athena Moon Lander Dies After Toppling Over
Consulting with a lawyer who has ties to President Trump. Reaching out to Washington lobbyists. And sitting for a jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson. Sam… Read More »Sam Bankman-Fried Lobbies Trump Associates in Hopes of a Pardon
Figma, a cloud-based design platform, has met with investment banks in recent weeks to discuss an initial public offering that could come as soon as… Read More »Figma in Talks With Bankers to Explore an I.P.O. This Year
In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that… Read More »DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly
Sitting beneath a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, more than two dozen of the most powerful figures in the U.S. cryptocurrency industry, together worth many billions… Read More »At Crypto Summit, Trump Says U.S. Will Be ‘the Bitcoin Superpower’