Don’t Let Your Smartphone Keep You Up at Night

These features to let you wind down for bed, mute notifications and stay on a regular sleep schedule may help you get more rest.

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Meta Reaches $1.4 Billion Settlement With Texas Over Privacy Violations

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram faced allegations that it had collected facial identification information on millions of users in violation of a state law.

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Business Is Buzzing Again for the Meme Makers of the Left

After a few sluggish years under President Biden, liberal social media creators are seeing their messages resonate as Kamala Harris campaigns for the White House.

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A Digital Coin Based on Baby Trump? Yup.

One of the wildest, most scam-ridden corners of the cryptocurrency industry — memecoins, which are rooted in internet memes — has roared back.

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Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say

Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners.

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When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation?

The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind.

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China Is Closing the A.I. Gap With the United States

In recent weeks, Chinese tech companies have unveiled technologies that rival American systems — and they are already in the hands of consumers and software developers.

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A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation

The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.

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Mark Zuckerberg Stumps for ‘Open Source’ A.I.

The chief executive of Meta said in an open letter that it was important that the technology was not controlled by a handful of giant companies — including his own.

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When Tech Fails, It Is Usually With a Whimper Instead of a Bang

While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.

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The Push to Develop Generative A.I. Without All the Lawsuits

Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.

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How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Power

Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

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In the Age of A.I., How Much Is Silicon Valley Prepared to Give Back?

The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.

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Elon Musk Enters Uncharted Territory With Trump Endorsement

The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.

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Saudi Arabia Extends Its Embrace of the World of Video Games

For struggling American video game companies, Saudi Arabia’s investments in the industry have been hard to resist. Not all gamers are happy about it.

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How Biden’s Stumbles Collided With a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.

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U.S. Plans Up to $1.6 Billion in Funding for Packaging Computer Chips

The proposed funding, part of the CHIPS Act, is intended to stoke chip packaging, a process that helps drive progress in semiconductors but that takes place mostly in Asia.

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Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.

Now 76, the inventor and futurist hopes to reach “the Singularity” and live indefinitely. His margin of error is shrinking.

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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.

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How to Clean Up Your Phone’s Photo Library to Free Up Space

Deleting duplicates, bad shots and other unwanted files makes it easier to find the good pictures — and gives you room to take more.

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