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The Securities and Exchange Commission reached a $1.5 million settlement with Elon Musk on Monday in a lawsuit that accused the world’s richest person of breaking securities law during his purchase of Twitter, now called X.The S.E.C. had said Mr. Musk hid purchases of the social media company’s stock in 2022 and did not disclose them in a timely manner, allowing him to underpay when he bought Twitter for $44…

Two days before the start of the blockbuster trial pitting Elon Musk against the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, Mr. Musk sent a text message to Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, asking if he was interested in settling the case.When Mr. Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Mr. Musk responded with a text attacking Mr. Brockman and Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive. “By the…

President Trump, who promoted a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence and gave Silicon Valley free rein to roll out the technology, is considering the introduction of government oversight over new A.I. models, according to U.S. officials and people briefed on the deliberations.The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group that would bring together tech executives and…

Anthropic is teaming up with several large investment firms to create a venture that will help companies integrate artificial intelligence tools into their systems, the latest example of the deepening ties between Wall Street and the A.I. industry.The private equity firms Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman and the investment bank Goldman Sachs through its investment funds are among the financial backers in the new…

In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions.He told us about Britney Spears, tamagotchis, former President George W. Bush and Beanie Babies. We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace.Now, like so many other relics of yesterday’s internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost…

Costa Ricans buy more electric vehicles per person than almost any other country in the Western Hemisphere, a fact that would not surprise anyone stopping recently at the Croc Skywalk, a tourist attraction above a slow-moving river where people can gawk at sunbathing crocodiles.Numerous electric vehicles, most of them made by Chinese companies like Geely and BYD, were parked outside a gift shop and restaurant…

Driving an electric vehicle on a road trip can be challenging enough in the United States. Would it be even possible in a country like Costa Rica? I decided to find out.Costa Rica has done more than most countries to promote electric vehicles, including passing a law in 2018 that required electric utilities to install fast chargers every 50 miles on national highways. That and tax breaks have made Costa Rica a…

When the messenger Pheidippides ran from the battlefield of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over the Persians in the 5th century B.C., he did it without shoes. His time was not officially tracked.Millenniums later, at the London Marathon on Sunday, Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha became the first to break the two-hour barrier in an official marathon, and Tigist Assefa set a women’s world…

The Pentagon announced on Friday that it had reached deals with some of the technology industry’s biggest companies in an effort to expand the military’s artificial intelligence capabilities and increase the number of firms authorized to be on classified networks.The companies, according to the Defense Department, agreed to allow the Pentagon to employ their technology for “any lawful use,” a standard resisted by…

This week, OpenAI announced a loosened partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpack what these updates signal about OpenAI’s business strategy and whether the company can scale while balancing a trial against Elon Musk and investor concerns over missed financial targets. Then, the A.I. researcher Dr. Adam Rodman, of Harvard Medical School, returns to tell us about…

Anthony Scaramucci has said he owns shares of SpaceX. So does 2 Chainz, the rapper; Betsy DeVos, the former education secretary; and the hosts of a podcast called “Rich Habits” and more than 150 of its followers.Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company is about to hold what could be the largest initial public offering ever, allowing anyone to own its stock after 24 years as a private firm. So why does it seem…

new video loaded: Musk vs. Altman: What Is This Really About?In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.By Cade Metz, Melanie Bencosme, Nikolay Nikolov, Stephanie Swart, Rafaela Balster and Karl MollohanApril 30, 2026 For more and to sign up click here To Return to the Main…

Apple will have a new chief executive in September, after 15 years with Tim Cook as its leader. In the meantime, it was business as usual for the company, which on Thursday reported another quarter of strong sales and profit.Apple’s revenue for the three months ended in March rose 17 percent from a year earlier to $111.2 billion. Profit jumped 19 percent to $29.6 billion, breaking its record for the quarter,…

Since he had a testy fireside chat about artificial intelligence with the Google co-founder Larry Page more than a decade ago, Elon Musk has had one big fear: that A.I. could eventually destroy humanity.It was one reason, he has often said, that he started the nonprofit A.I. lab OpenAI with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and a group of A.I. researchers. They were going to build the technology safely for the benefit of…

Elon Musk will take the stand for his third day of testimony on Thursday, in a blockbuster trial that could help determine the future of companies racing to dominate artificial intelligence.Mr. Musk has already spent two days laying out and defending his lawsuit against OpenAI, the A.I. start-up that he helped found and spent tens of millions of dollars funding. Mr. Musk has claimed that OpenAI abandoned its…

Updated April 30, 2026, 11:34 a.m. ETElon Musk is on the stand for his third day of testimony on Thursday, in a blockbuster trial that could help determine the future of companies racing to dominate artificial intelligence.Mr. Musk has already spent two days laying out and defending his lawsuit against OpenAI, the A.I. start-up that he helped found and spent tens of millions of dollars funding. Mr. Musk has…

Updated April 30, 2026, 10:15 a.m. ETElon Musk will take the stand for his third day of testimony on Thursday, in a blockbuster trial that could help determine the future of companies racing to dominate artificial intelligence.Mr. Musk has already spent two days laying out and defending his lawsuit against OpenAI, the A.I. start-up that he helped found and spent tens of millions of dollars funding. Mr. Musk has…

Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm, is many things to many people.It’s a major military contractor, and its technology has helped the Trump administration track people for deportation. It also worked with the federal government to distribute Covid-19 vaccines. For some privacy advocates, it’s a Big Brother-like entity. And some amateur investors speak about Palantir’s stock performance and one of its…

Trip planning can feel like a slog, full of chores that artificial intelligence chatbots should be able to speed up. The technology was still bad a couple of years ago. Is it up to the task yet?As the personal tech columnist for The New York Times and a frequent traveler, I was eager to test whether A.I. could streamline the planning process, which typically takes me hours of reading travel guides and plugging…

Nearly two decades after the arrival of smartphones, society is grappling with a problem that has grown worse over time: People love their phones so much that they can’t put them down.Schools all over the globe, citing lower academic performance from digital distraction, are banning the devices from classrooms. Thousands of lawsuits have accused tech companies of designing phone apps to be addictive, including a…

It was 2018, and Elon Musk was having a very busy year.His electric car company, Tesla, was struggling with manufacturing problems. He had a plan to take it private, but he kept angering regulators. SpaceX, his rocket company, was just starting to show momentum. And OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence lab he was supposed to be involved in, wasn’t getting much of his attention.“I did not even have the…

Manus, an artificial intelligence start-up, began with an idea among three engineers in Wuhan, China, united by an obsession with A.I. and a shared ambition to build a global venture. From the outset, they looked beyond China.Their big break came in March last year. Manus had drawn the attention of Silicon Valley investors with an A.I. agent capable of carrying out tasks on its own. By year’s end, Meta had agreed…

Ford Motor reported a rebound in profit in the first three months of the year, thanks in part to an expected $1.3 billion refund of federal import tariffs that were struck down by the Supreme Court.The company said it earned $2.5 billion in the first quarter, up from $500 million a year earlier, while revenue climbed 6 percent, to $43.3 billion.“Ford delivered a solid start to the year,” the company’s chief…

For the past two years, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta have repeatedly set records for how much they are spending on artificial intelligence.On Wednesday, the four giants did it again.In the first three months of the year, the four companies reported in their financial results, they plowed a total of $130.65 billion into capital expenditures, largely spending on data centers that power A.I. That figure —…