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C. Richard Kramlich, Early Investor in Silicon Valley, Dies at 89
C. Richard Kramlich, an early investor in Silicon Valley who co-founded the investment giant New Enterprise Associates, helping to fuel…
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Why Is This C.E.O. Bragging About Replacing Humans With A.I.?
Ask typical corporate executives about their goals in adopting artificial intelligence, and they will most likely make vague…
Business
A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent
In the past week, OpenAI’s Operator has done the following things for me: Ordered me a new ice cream scoop on Amazon. Bought me a new…
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DeepSeek’s Answers Include Chinese Propaganda, Researchers Say
If you’re among the millions of people who have downloaded DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence,…
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Embrace of Trump Administration in Meta Employee Q&A
In a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with Meta employees on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive, defended…
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Apple’s Revenue Increases 4 Percent Despite Slowing iPhone Sales
After Apple unveiled artificial intelligence features for iPhones last year, the company’s stock soared in anticipation that the new…
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SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence company that has been on a yearslong money-raising frenzy, is in talks with the Japanese…
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Blackstone Still Bullish on A.I. Data Centers Despite DeepSeek
The Chinese A.I. start-up DeepSeek upended the prevailing view that artificial intelligence systems require huge amounts of power and…
Politics
U.S. Sues to Block Tech Deal in First Antitrust Action of Trump Term
The Justice Department on Thursday moved to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, the first deal…
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Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires
The older he gets, the more Bill Gates is surprised by what the world dishes up. Take billionaires. There are many now from the tech…
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Meta Agrees to Pay Trump $25 Million to Settle His Lawsuit
Meta said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay President Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed over the suspension of his…
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After DeepSeek, Venture Capital Investors Face Questions About Their A.I. Bets
Jordan Jacobs, an investor at the venture capital firm Radical Ventures, has spent the last few days fielding half a dozen calls from his…
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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump
Quietly but unmistakably, the tampons, liners and pads reappeared in many of the men’s bathrooms at Meta’s offices. Days earlier, Mark…
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DeepSeek Shows Meta’s A.I. Strategy Is Working
When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in…
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Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed?
The United States has worked steadily over the past three years to limit China’s access to the cutting edge computer chips that power…
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How China Is Reacting to DeepSeek Upending the A.I. Race
Inside China, it was called the tipping point for the global technological rivalry with the United States and the “darkest hour” in…
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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.
The artificial intelligence breakthrough that is sending shock waves through stock markets, spooking Silicon Valley giants, and generating…
Business
What is DeepSeek? And How Is It Upending A.I.?
Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social…
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Nvidia Reels After DeepSeek’s A.I. Breakthrough
Nvidia, which soared to the top of the stock market by selling the computer chips fueling the world’s artificial intelligence boom, has…
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DeepSeek Prompts a Reckoning Across Wall Street and Silicon Valley
The DeepSeek effect Markets are on edge on Monday, as global tech investors face a $1 trillion wipeout. The cause: anxiety that the…
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Elon Musk, Video Game King? Well, Maybe Not.
On its face, the claim feels improbable: In addition to being the world’s richest man, the chief executive of multiple companies and a key…
Politics
The Surveillance Tools That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Apps and ankle monitors that track asylum seekers in real time wherever they go. Databases packed with personal information like…
Politics
TikTok Ban and Trump Executive Order Lead to Tech Company Dilemma
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok…
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Meta to Increase Spending to $65 Billion This Year in A.I. Push
Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025,…