Mark Zuckerberg Defends Embrace of Trump Administration in Meta Employee Q&A

By: Mike Isaac

30 January 2025 at 18:21

In a meeting with Meta employees on Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg also doubled down on recent changes to the company’s online speech policies and ending its diversity initiatives.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, at President Trump’s inauguration this month.

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Apple’s Revenue Increases 4 Percent Despite Slowing iPhone Sales

By: Tripp Mickle

30 January 2025 at 17:04

The tech giant’s sales of apps and services helped profit grow 7 percent from a year ago, even as the company contended with slumping sales in China.

Apple released a new iPhone in September without its signature selling point: an A.I. system called Apple Intelligence.

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Musk’s Twitter Takeover Offers Trump a Blueprint

By: Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

30 January 2025 at 13:16

Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

Elon Musk speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington last week. Many of the actions taken by the Trump administration since the inauguration mirror ones taken by Mr. Musk after he bought buying Twitter.

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U.S. Sues to Block Tech Deal in First Antitrust Action of Trump Term

By: Lauren Hirsch and David McCabe

30 January 2025 at 13:24

The challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks came as many in corporate America had expected a lighter touch under a new administration.

The Department of Justice said the deal “risks substantially lessening competition in a critically important technology market.”

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SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI

By: Cade Metz， Lauren Hirsch， Mike Isaac and River Akira Davis

30 January 2025 at 12:13

A new investment from the Japanese conglomerate would be separate from the $100 billion tied to a project announced at the White House last week.

President Trump announces the Stargate project with SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and OpenAI’s Sam Altman last week at the White House.

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Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes

By: Alex Vadukul

30 January 2025 at 12:45

Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.

From left to right, Jameson Butler, Biruk Watling, Logan Lane and Sasha Jackson, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

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Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires

By: David Streitfeld

30 January 2025 at 10:08

The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist is taking a break from the future to examine his past — and mulling where the billionaires now fit in.

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

By: Mike Isaac， Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel

29 January 2025 at 11:27

As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies, their mostly left-leaning employees have objected with subtle acts of defiance.

Meta’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; Sundar Pichai, Google chief executive; and Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX leader, were among the tech leaders who attended President Trump’s inauguration last week.

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OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data

By: Cade Metz

29 January 2025 at 14:15

The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.

DeepSeek spooked Silicon Valley companies and sent financial markets into a tailspin earlier this week after releasing its A.I. technologies.

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After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets

By: Erin Griffith

29 January 2025 at 13:59

Venture capitalists plowed money into A.I. start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic. But the rise of the Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek has called that funding frenzy into question.

DeepSeek created a powerful artificial intelligence model with far less money than most tech experts thought possible, upending many assumptions about the development of the technology.

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DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working

By: Cade Metz and Mike Isaac

29 January 2025 at 14:10

The Silicon Valley giant was criticized for giving away its core A.I. technology two years ago for anyone to use. Now that bet is having an impact.

Meta executives think a decision they made two years ago is leveling the A.I. playing field.

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Meta Agrees to Pay Trump $25 Million to Settle His Lawsuit

By: Mike Isaac and Maggie Haberman

29 January 2025 at 18:35

President Trump had sued Meta and other tech firms in 2021, arguing that he had been wrongfully censored by them. Meta also reported revenue and profit growth for the fourth quarter.

The chief executive of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has become supportive of President Trump and made policy changes to align the company with the White House’s goals.

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Microsoft Continues A.I. Spending Growth as Profit Grows 10%

By: Karen Weise

29 January 2025 at 19:03

The tech giant’s revenue was up 12 percent to $69.6 billion, but investors are showing their nerves after a long boom for tech stocks.

In the latest quarter, Microsoft kept up its rapid drive to build data centers to power cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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Tesla’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Report Sharp Drop in Profit

By: Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette

29 January 2025 at 18:18

The electric car company run by Elon Musk is facing increasing competition, but investors have focused mostly on the prospects for Tesla’s self-driving technology.

Tesla has cut prices and offered low-interest financing to prop up sales, but the measures have hurt profits.

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Why Trump Picked a Science Advisor, Michael Kratsios, Who Isn’t a Scientist

By: William J. Broad

29 January 2025 at 10:04

Michael Kratsios, who served in the White House and Defense Department in the first Trump administration, is a policy specialist on artificial intelligence.

Michael Kratsios was one of the previous Trump administration’s earliest science and technology aides, leading tech policy initiatives on issues such as A.I., drones, quantum computing and cybersecurity.

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How DeepSeek Changed the A.I. Game

By: Cade Metz， Claire Hogan and David Jouppi

28 January 2025 at 17:48

What is DeepSeek, and why did it cause the markets and U.S. tech giants to quake? Cade Metz, a technology reporter for The New York Times who writes about artificial intelligence, explains.

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Elon Musk’s X Partners With Visa to Provide Financial Services

By: Kate Conger

28 January 2025 at 13:37

The social media company said it would start a peer-to-peer payments service, moving to expand the app’s abilities.

Elon Musk at the inauguration of President Trump at the U.S. Capitol building last week.

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Citing ‘Shadow of Evil,’ Vatican Warns About the Risks of A.I.

By: Elisabetta Povoledo

29 January 2025 at 12:34

A new document examines the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence and calls for “moral and ethical considerations” to be enshrined in all of its applications.

Pope Francis has repeatedly warned that the application of artificial intelligence should be grounded in ethical and moral considerations.

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Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers

By: Rebecca F. Elliott

28 January 2025 at 08:00

The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.

“It’s a chance for us to help meet the moment and address this growing need for reliable and affordable power,” Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive, said in an interview.

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G.M. Has Plans Ready for Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs

By: Neal E. Boudette

28 January 2025 at 16:43

General Motors, the largest producer of cars in Mexico, won’t provide details on how it would react if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs from the two countries.