From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
The president has backed policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered. The mutually beneficial alliance is causing concern among some conservatives.
- By Cecilia Kang
Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
- By Sheera Frenkel and Kenny Holston
Can OpenAI Respond After Google Closes the A.I. Technology Gap?
A new technology release from OpenAI is supposed to top what Google recently produced. It also shows OpenAI is engaged in a new and more difficult competition.
- By Cade Metz and Mike Isaac
U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology Monopoly
The Justice Department argued that the best way to address the company’s unfair advantage was to force it to sell off portions of its business.
- By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.
- By Cade Metz
United Arab Emirates Joins U.S. and China in Giving Away A.I. Technology
The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.
- By Cade Metz
Trump Plans to Give A.I. Developers a Free Hand
With executive orders and an “A.I. Action Plan” to promote American dominance of the technology, President Trump declared that the United States needed to win the A.I. race.
- By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
- By Kashmir Hill
OpenAI to Give Away Some of the Technology That Powers ChatGPT
In a major shift, the company is “open sourcing” two A.I. systems, freely sharing the technology with outside researchers and businesses.
- By Cade Metz
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.
- By Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson