How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse - A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artifi... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/business/tiktok-china-bytedance-ai.html #deepseekartificialintelligencecoltd #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #toutiao(chinesenewsplatform) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #douyin(bytedance) #unitedstates #socialmedia #china

What’s Wrong With Apple? - Even before the threat of President Trump’s tariffs, there were questions about the compa... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/technology/apple-issues-trump-tariffs.html #virtualreality(computers) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #customs(tariff) #giannandreajohn #computerchips #appleinc

How Do the iPhone 16E and Google Pixel 9A Compare to More Expensive Models? - With tariffs threatening to drive up the costs of most things, the new entry-level phones... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/technology/personaltech/iphone-16e-pixel-9a-cheaper-phone-models.html #prices(faresfeesandrates) #computersandtheinternet #computerandvideogames #smartphones #photography #googleinc #appleinc #cameras #iphone

Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know - The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/science/amazon-kuiper-satellite-launch.html #kuipersystems(amazon.cominc) #rocketscienceandpropulsion #computersandtheinternet #unitedlaunchalliance #capecanaveral(fla) #spaceandastronomy #amazon.cominc #satellites

No Phone, No Internet: A First-Time Visit to Casablanca - On her first visit to Morocco’s largest city, a visitor swears off her phone, the interne... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/travel/casablanca-without-a-phone-digital-detox.html #computersandtheinternet #hotelsandtravellodgings #casablanca(morocco) #travelandvacations #cellulartelephones #restaurants #mosques

Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72 - In over a dozen books, he explored the failures of journalism and the internet, blaming c... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html #capitalism(theoryandphilosophy) #democracy(theoryandphilosophy) #computersandtheinternet #politicsandgovernment #rocketthe(magazine) #deaths(obituaries) #booksandliterature #freedomofthepress #mcchesneyrobertw #newsandnewsmedia #sandersbernard

Tech C.E.O.s Spent Millions Courting Trump. It Has Yet to Pay Off. - With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/technology/tech-ceos-lobbying-trump.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #federalcommunicationscommission #presidentialelectionof2024 #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #justicedepartment #metaplatformsinc

How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs - The future of the popular video app is now at the center of a geopolitical tussle between... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/trump-tiktok-china-tariffs.html #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #executiveordersandmemorandums #computersandtheinternet #internationalrelations #mobileapplications #andreessenhorowitz #blackstonegroupthe #china

Google Says Employees Can Discuss Antitrust Case - The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/google-antitrust-union-settlement.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #nationallaborrelationsboard #computersandtheinternet #alphabetworkersunion #justicedepartment #organizedlabor #alphabetinc #googleinc

How X Is Benefiting as Musk Advises Trump - The social media platform has experienced a return in advertisers and new exposure as an ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/elon-musk-x-trump.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #computersandtheinternet #x(formerlytwitter) #onlineadvertising #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #muskelon

Can Using the Light Phone III Help Cure ‘Brain Rot’? - Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/technology/personaltech/light-phone-iii-brain-rot.html #mobilecommerceandpayments #computersandtheinternet #mobileapplications #textmessaging #smartphones #webbrowsers #start-ups #cameras #iphone

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It - As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html #instituteofmuseumandlibraryservices #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialtransition(us) #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #librariesandlibrarians #archivesandrecords #internetarchive #waybackmachine #trumpdonaldj #datastorage #wikipedia

How Tariffs Are Hitting Digital Commerce Companies - These businesses, including e-commerce platforms and payment processors, are pulling back... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/technology/tariffs-digital-commerce.html #internationaltradeandworldmarket #mobilecommerceandpayments #computersandtheinternet #initialpublicofferings #chime(bancorpbank) #customs(tariff) #amazon.cominc #trumpdonaldj #e-commerce #shopifyinc #stripeinc #klarnaab #stubhub

E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X - European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the ris... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/eu-penalties-x-elon-musk.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatesinternationalrelations #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #freedomofspeechandexpression #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #internationalrelations #x(formerlytwitter) #europeanunion #trumpdonaldj

This A.I. Forecast Predicts Storms Ahead - The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursd... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/technology/ai-futures-project-ai-2027.html #alleninstituteforartificialintelligence #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #astralcodexten(blog) #kokotajlodaniel #openailabs #research

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul - The co-founder of Oracle and friend of President Trump, who was a flamboyant fixture in t... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/technology/trump-larry-ellison-tiktok-oracle.html #mergersacquisitionsanddivestitures #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #beijingbytedancetechnologycoltd #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #politicsandgovernment #siliconvalley(calif) #mobileapplications #oraclecorporation #tiktok(bytedance)

Facebook’s New Friends Tab Brings App Back to Its Roots - A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the o... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/technology/meta-facebook-friends-tab.html #alisontom(technologyexecutive) #computersandtheinternet #mobileapplications #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #socialmedia #facebookinc

Democrats Fired from F.T.C. Sue President Trump Over Dismissals - Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, who were fired from the agency this month, acc... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/technology/ftc-fired-democrats-trump-lawsuit.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #appointmentsandexecutivechanges #suitsandlitigation(civil) #computersandtheinternet #federaltradecommission #presidentialpower(us) #slaughterrebecca #bedoyaalvaro

Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family - A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the o... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/technology/facebook-roots-friends-family.html #computersandtheinternet #mobileapplications #tiktok(bytedance) #metaplatformsinc #zuckerbergmarke #instagraminc #socialmedia #facebookinc #youtube.com #tomalison

How A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT and DeepSeek Reason - Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time wit... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/technology/ai-reasoning-chatgpt-deepseek.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #contenttype:service #openailabs #innovation #kleindan #chatgpt