For people like Ms. Otts, an online community can be lifesaving.

Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

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The data centers used for work on artificial intelligence can cost tens of billions to build. Tech giants are finding ways to avoid being on the hook for some of those costs.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.

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Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

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Two columnists debate this strange moment.

Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.

Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.

Pay attention to how you pay attention.

Being a smart consumer has never been easier. Influencers and the fashion industry are all taking advantage of that.

Generative A.I. needs a course correction for the sake of energy efficiency and for its own advancement.

Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.

I help to build A.I. systems, and even I know there are real reasons to be concerned about how A.I. affects our children.

In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.

Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.

Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.

The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.

Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.

Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

China and the United States say She Zhijiang, a Chinese-born businessman, ran a major scam compound in Myanmar. He was arrested in Bangkok in 2022.

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

As he so often does, the president is pushing the wrong answer to the right question on trade policy with Beijing.

Neither President Trump nor Chinese officials indicated any new developments for the popular video app. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent previously suggested they could “consummate” transfer of control from its Chinese owner.

The A.I. chip maker has become a linchpin in the Trump administration’s trade negotiations in Asia.