Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn
In May, CoreWeave, a provider of cloud computing services for A.I. companies, raised $1.1 billion, followed by $7.5 billion in…
U.S. Awards $504 Million for ‘Tech Hubs’ in Overlooked Regions
The Biden administration awarded $504 million on Tuesday to a dozen projects across the country in a bid to transform…
Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76
Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favored tool for writing during the early…
Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla
Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla,…
In Ukraine War, A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
In a field on the outskirts of Kyiv, the founders of Vyriy, a Ukrainian drone company, were recently at work…
Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights
The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the…
Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says
When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an…
Robots Get a Fleshy Face (and a Smile) in New Research
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile. They have created…
Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a…
The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot
What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the…