The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.

For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.

ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company?s cash cow and a China mainstay.

Along with the higher spending, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp projected lighter-than-expected revenue, causing its stock to plummet.

The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments to customers who had certain Ring home security cameras and accounts during a particular time period, the agency said.

A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.

Google?s parent company topped revenue and profit estimates and said that it would offer a stock dividend for the first time.

The tech giant?s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.

REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.

The Japanese automaker, which has been slow to sell electric vehicles, said it would invest $11 billion to make batteries and cars in Ontario.

Chad Nedohin, a part-time pastor, is among the fans of Donald J. Trump who helped turn Trump Media into a meme stock with volatile prices.

While Congress says the social app is a security threat, critics of the law targeting it say it shows how out of step lawmakers are with young people.

Lawyers for Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the crypto exchange Binance, countered that he should receive no prison time.

Mr. Musk?s defiance over removing content is testing the boundaries of international legal systems.

A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.

Despite Mark Zuckerberg?s hope for the chatbot to be the smartest, it struggles with facts, numbers and web search.

The robotic nerd depicted in ?The Social Network? has turned into the kinder, more accessible face of Silicon Valley. What?s going on?

A new category of apps promises to relieve parents of drudgery, with an assist from A.I. But a family?s grunt work is more human, and valuable, than it seems.

Merle Meyers, who left Boeing last year after a 30-year career, said he was speaking publicly about his experience because he loved the company ?fiercely.?

President Biden has signed the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it. Now the law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing?s hostility.

This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.

The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.

General Motors has struggled with electric vehicles and in foreign markets but it is selling lots of combustion engine cars and trucks in North America.

Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches.

Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.

The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren?t necessarily what everyone needs.

The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.

Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA.

European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.

The agreement would give the tech company worldwide rights for a monthlong World Cup-style competition between top teams set to take place next year.

A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn?t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.

Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.

To own a computer or smartphone ? indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree ? is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed.

For 12 years, the MTV reality series ?Catfish? has traveled the U.S., presenting hundreds of intimate snapshots of what can go wrong when the heart mixes with technology.

Manish Lachwani, who founded the software start-up HeadSpin, is the latest tech entrepreneur to face time in prison in recent years.

A federal auto safety agency said the accelerator pedal on the pickup truck, sales of which began in late 2023, could become stuck, increasing the risk of accidents.

?I feel like we?ve been at the club. I need some water and some electrolytes.?

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