The 2024 Good Tech Awards

In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.

Kevin Roose | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Social Media Companies Face Global Tug-of-War Over Free Speech

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s picks for the F.C.C. and F.T.C. have vowed to remove censorship online. That conflicts with European regulators who are pushing for stricter moderation.

Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

A.I., the Electricians and the Boom Towns of Central Washington

The rural region is changing fast as electricians from around the country plug the tech industry’s new, giant data centers into its ample power supply.

Karen Weise and Jovelle Tamayo | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Nvidia’s Booming A.I. Business Collides With U.S.-Chinese Tensions

The chipmaker expects more than $10 billion in foreign sales this year, but the Biden administration is advancing rules that could curb that growth.

Tripp Mickle and Paul Mozur | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Is the Tech Industry Already on the Cusp of an A.I. Slowdown?

Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress?

Cade Metz and Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Tim Cook to Dine With Trump at Mar-a-Lago

The chief executive of Apple is the latest in a series of technology executives who are traveling to Florida to meet with the president-elect.

Theodore Schleifer and Tripp Mickle | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

What Is Venture Capital Now Anyway?

The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a profound debate about the future of an industry that funds and fosters American innovation.

Erin Griffith | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn’t Want You to Be.

The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.

Erin Griffith | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Google Unveils A.I. Agent That Can Use Websites on Its Own

The experimental tool can browse spreadsheets, shopping sites and other services, before taking action on behalf of the computer user.

Cade Metz and Nico Grant | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough

Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)

Cade Metz | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

China Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Nvidia

The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.

Meaghan Tobin and John Liu | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure

Could Facial Recognition Help Find Man Sought in C.E.O.’s Killing?

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead.

Kashmir Hill | NYTimes Technology | Disclosure