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Trump’s Tariff on Cheap Chinese Imports Will Cost Big Tech Billions
The expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online…
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House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and…
Business
Why Antitrust Breakups of Google and Meta Could Be Difficult
The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft…
Business
The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard.
The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft…
Business
What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?
In 2012, when Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people…
Politics
Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
President Trump and Europe are clashing over tariffs, the war in Ukraine and the very purpose of the European Union’s existence. But they…
Business
When It Comes to Investing, Is A.I. Worth the Hype?
After the arrival of a less costly A.I. model from China, U.S. markets and academics are wrestling with the ultimate economic value of the…
Politics
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…
Business
Meta and Microsoft Double Down on Huge A.I. Spending, Despite DeepSeek Threat
We have sad news: We are following the latest on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside Washington between an…
Politics
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…
Politics
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…
News
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…
Business
Meta Chief Zuckerberg Joins the Business Roundtable
Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions as a Washington power player have led him to another corner of the capital’s hobnobbing scene: the Business…
Business
Apple, Meta, Nvidia and OpenAI: Who Wins and Loses the DeepSeek Scramble?
Lots of questions are still swirling this morning about the implications of DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up whose A.I. tools drove…
Business
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…
Business
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…
Business
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,…
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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts
Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the…
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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in…
Politics
Russian Disinformation Campaigns Eluded Meta’s Efforts to Block Them
A Russian organization linked to the Kremlin’s covert influence campaigns posted more than 8,000 political advertisements on Facebook…
Politics
Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of…
Politics
Musk and Zuckerberg Reflect New Blows Against D.E.I. Policies
The war on D.E.I. intensifies Even before Donald Trump won in November, the conservative backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion…
Politics
Zuckerberg Will Host a Party for Trump’s Inauguration
Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive who has tried to keep a distance from politics, appears to be warming to President-elect Donald…