‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ has built a delirious new culture of consumption — and trapped users in a vortex of debt.

In an escalating cat-and-mouse game, job hunters are trying to fool A.I. into moving their applications to the top of the pile with embedded instructions.

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The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.

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Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.

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Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.

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This is worse than putting all your eggs in one basket.

The Dream Factory is going full fantasy, human factor be damned.

Are you playing the technology or is the technology playing you? In a recent episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” the musician Brian Eno and the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein discuss how generative A.I. changes our relationship with agency.

Kim Scott, who lived and worked in Russia, on Silicon Valley’s silent complicity in the rise of authoritarianism.

If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding the right answer.

Surging interest in artificial intelligence is generating huge gains for Chinese tech stocks like Alibaba, which has more than doubled this year.

Trump is known for saying a lot of things that he can’t or won’t back up. This time, the threats are real.

A.I. feels like a runaway train. But we don’t have to let it run over us.

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and the roles of students and parents. Also: Infants and screens; prizes for the president.

As another classical music season gets underway, we — players, listeners and promoters — should consider the treasure of deep immersion into music.

The number combination refers to a work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — that has its origins in China’s hard-charging tech scene.

Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.

A judge’s remedy for the company’s illegal monopolization of search may worsen the problem.

Spruce Pine, N.C., supplies the world’s highest-purity quartz, a mineral that keeps the A.I. revolution afloat. What are the consequences?

The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese investors for a U.S. version of the app.

China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

A U.S. sale isn’t enough. Here’s how to make TikTok safer.

Believing artificial intelligence is magic is just as baseless as believing photographs can capture spirits. That’s not stopping people.

How Trump has made his mark in politics and in our minds.

Fox Corporation is considering investing in the popular video app as part of a bid to avert a U.S. ban, a person familiar with the situation said after the president’s remarks.

The TikTok deal is Trumpism 101.

The president told reporters Friday that China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, had approved a deal for TikTok. But he also suggested the agreement was a work in progress.

The two leaders spoke on Friday to discuss a deal to keep the wildly popular app from going dark in the United States.

President Trump said he would meet with President Xi Jinping next month in South Korea. Mr. Xi said he welcomes a TikTok deal that would benefit both sides.