Countries Consider A.I.’s Dangers and Benefits at U.N.

The UN makes its bid for relevance in the AI world. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

The Message for Big Tech in the Google Ruling: Play Nice, but Play On

What's to be done with Google? Not so much.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/b...

Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.

“The raw technological horsepower is terrific, but it’s not going to determine how quickly A.I. transforms the economy.” - Andrew McAfee, research scientist at MIT and co-founder of Workhelix.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...

Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.

AI technology is racing ahead, but the payoff for companies outside the tech sector is lagging behind so far. How soon will that change?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

Great, close-up piece on the AI impact on the onramp of the tech job market. @natashanyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

So Long to Tech’s Dream Job

"Shut up and grind" - pretty much says it all. The view from the Silicon Valley rank-and-file. @kateconger.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

Silicon Valley Is in Its ‘Hard Tech’ Era

The evolution of Silicon Valley explained -- the tech, the culture, the politics. A good read too. @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

William H. Neukom, Microsoft Lawyer Who Led Antitrust Fight, Dies at 83

Our obituary of Bill Neukom, Microsoft's antitrust warrior and a lot more. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced?

AI formula for the future: "Hire junior employees who use A.I. to do what was once midlevel work, a handful of senior employees to oversee them and almost no middle-tier employees." @noamscheiber.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

A visit to an epicenter of the AI data center building boom. Its staggering size and scale close up. Karen Weise and Cade Metz
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/t...

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

The generative AI wave is shaking up all of academia, but computer science is at the forefront.
“We’re seeing the tip of the A.I. tsunami.” Jeannette Wing, Columbia University.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/t...

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

The future of computer science: More real-world problem solving and less programming?
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/t...

The Judge’s Data Dilemma in the Google Search Case

A federal judge ruled that Google illegally protected its monopoly in internet search. Is court-ordered data sharing the solution?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future

AI comes to Miami schools. The students are intelligent users. And the story from @natashanyt.bsky.social is the usual high standard. The AI future may not be so scary, after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/t...

Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon

“Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I. But it will be humans and A.I. working together.” - Dr. John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon

Their jobs appeared to be in AI’s crosshairs. But it hasn’t worked out that way for radiologists.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Google Makes History With Rapid-Fire Antitrust Losses Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.

A second solid antitrust win for the Justice Department – and a second sobering loss for Google. But there’s a long way to go and different paths to an endgame.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/t...

This Company’s Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants ‘Easy Pickings’ for Trump Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.

Immigrant Crackdown Inc. A close look at a company cashing in. @paulmozur.bsky.social + @satariano.bsky.social + @Aaron_Krolik www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...

The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard. For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.

“Divestiture can be an entirely acceptable remedy, depending on the severity of the harm. But it can be risky surgery.” - William Kovacic, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

The U.S. Wants to Break Up Google and Meta. That Could Be Hard. For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.

Why breaking up is hard to do – in antitrust.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

For U.S. Apparel Manufacturers, Chaotic Tariff Policy Isn’t Much Help Even companies that make clothing in America aren’t feeling great about stiff duties on their overseas competition.

Why American apparel makers aren't rejoicing over tariffs. Trade is complicated, as @lydiadepillis.bsky.social smartly explains.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/b...

A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.

A Web pioneer hoping to change the game again.
What Mike McCue calls the "open social web."
“Now innovation will become decentralized around human connection." @johnmarkoff.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...

Lila Sciences Uses A.I. to Turbocharge Scientific Discovery (Gift Article) An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.

“A.I. will power the next revolution of this most valuable thing humans ever stumbled across – the scientific method.” – Geoffrey von Maltzahn, chief executive of Lila Sciences
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

St. Louis Wants Immigrants. Trump’s Crackdown Could Get in the Way. Shrinking cities have tried to stabilize their populations with foreign-born residents. The strategy was working, until the inauguration.

Collateral damage in the immigrant crackdown -- cities eager for workers and taxpayers. The St. Louis story, in nuanced detail. @lydiadepillis.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/b...

Who Likes Tariffs? Some U.S. Industries Are Eager for Them. Concern about the cost of materials has tempered business enthusiasm about taxing imports. But steel and aluminum makers say they welcome the help.

The other side of the tariff ledger -- the winners. Smart piece by @eavis.com www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

Lila Sciences Uses A.I. to Turbocharge Scientific Discovery An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.

Harnessing AI in the quest for “scientific superintelligence.” How far can it go?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...

Some Schools Rethink “College For All” The idea that every student should aim for a four-year college motivated a bipartisan movement for decades. Now even enthusiastic promoters of the idea are reconsidering it.

KIPP is “broadening the celebration” of what students can do and achieve after high school. - Shavar Jeffries, chief executive of the KIPP Foundation
No longer "college for all." Fine, nuanced piece by @danagoldstein.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups Tech start-ups typically raised huge sums to hire armies of workers and grow fast. Now artificial intelligence tools are making workers more productive and spurring tales of “tiny team” success.

The "lean start-up," AI edition. @eringriffith has the story, in depth. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/t...

A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not an Extinction, for Coders A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.

AI coding assistants. Does today’s clever helper become tomorrow’s robotic replacement?
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not an Extinction, for Coders A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work force.

The first big wave of A.I. agents at work? Coding assistants.
A look at how they are changing work for software developers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...