Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.
Read more ...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, backed Nate Morris, a Republican businessman, in the primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
Read more ...
The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its chatbot over the next several weeks.
Read more ...
Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.
Read more ...
A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
Read more ...
Demand from centers that power artificial intelligence has driven up electricity bills, frustrating consumers.
Read more ...
“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
Read more ...
Despite many proposals, there is little consensus among governors, lawmakers and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
Read more ...
The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.
Read more ...
Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.
Read more ...
Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.
Read more ...
The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power.
Read more ...
The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.
Read more ...
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.
Read more ...
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Read more ...
Under a near-total communications blackout, users of Elon Musk’s satellite service have gotten online without paying, organizations that work on tech issues said.
Read more ...
The tech giant is responding to concerns that data centers are driving up electricity costs in some communities.
Read more ...
A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
Read more ...
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.
Read more ...
Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.
Read more ...