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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. At the World Artificial [...]

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. Companies like Google and OpenAI built […]

Earlier this year, Satya Nadella hammered out a deal that surprised everyone outside his inner circle at Microsoft. Mr. Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, had his eyes on a Silicon Valley [...]

Sitting near a window inside Boston's Four Seasons Hotel, overlooking a duck pond in the city's Public Garden, Ray Kurzweil held up a sheet of paper showing the steady growth […]

The two-story library has Oriental rugs, shaded lamps dotting its desks and rows of hardbacks lining its walls. It is the architectural centerpiece of the offices of OpenAI, the start-up [...]

The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough. Call it [...]

For nearly 30 years, Oren Etzioni was among the most optimistic of artificial intelligence researchers. But in 2019 Dr. Etzioni, a University of Washington professor and founding chief executive of [...]

China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States. When it comes [...]

Companies like OpenAI and Midjourney build chatbots, image generators and other artificial intelligence tools that operate in the digital world. Now, a start-up founded by three former OpenAI researchers is [...]

The tech industry loves its garage start-up stories. From Hewlett-Packard to Google, the tales of bootstrapped companies that have turned into giants have inspired generations of entrepreneurs. But the huge [...]

Researchers and industry leaders have warned that A.I. could pose an existential risk to humanity. But they've been light on the details. Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the [...]

The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous. In February, Meta made [...]

When did The New York Times first report on ''artificial intelligence''? According to ChatGPT, it was July 10, 1956, in an article titled ''Machines Will Be Capable of Learning, Solving [...]

A recent letter calling for a moratorium on A.I. development blends real threats with speculation. But concern is growing among experts. In late March, more than 1,000 technology leaders, researchers [...]

Geoffrey Hinton was an artificial intelligence pioneer. In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for [...]

In December, Elon Musk became angry about the development of artificial intelligence and put his foot down. He had learned of a relationship between OpenAI, the start-up behind the popular [...]

Where we're heading tomorrow, next year and beyond. In today's A.I. newsletter, the last in our five-part series , I look at where artificial intelligence may be headed in the [...]

The curious case of the hallucinating software. In today's A.I. newsletter, the third of a five-part series , I discuss some of the ways chatbots can go awry. A few [...]

I first met Sam Altman in the summer of 2019, days after Microsoft agreed to invest $1 billion in his three-year-old start-up, OpenAI. At his suggestion, we had dinner at [...]

More than 1,000 tech leaders, researchers and others signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems. More than 1,000 technology leaders [...]

In just weeks, a gold rush into artificial intelligence start-ups has become a full-blown mania. When four leading artificial intelligence researchers left Google this year to create a start-up called [...]

The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, A.I. could be a boon. SAN FRANCISCO -- When Aaron Levie, [...]

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them. When Microsoft added a chatbot to [...]

It has long had technology to rival chatbots like ChatGPT, but can't afford to back artificial intelligence that can spread misinformation and toxic content. SAN FRANCISCO -- Two weeks before [...]

Waymo and Cruise hope to widen their projects to more of the city. But local officials are increasingly concerned about breakdowns causing congestion. Last week, a self-driving car stopped in [...]

Anthropic specializes in generative artificial intelligence, a hot investment in Silicon Valley. The new funding could value the company at roughly $5 billion. Anthropic, a San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, [...]

Franz Broseph seemed like any other Diplomacy player to Claes de Graaff. The handle was a joke -- the Austrian emperor Franz Joseph I reborn as an online bro -- [...]

Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid. Last spring, an artificial intelligence lab called OpenAI unveiled technology that [...]

An investment frenzy over ''generative artificial intelligence'' has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination. Five weeks ago, [...]

Self-driving eighteen-wheelers are now on highways in states like California and Texas. But there are still human ''safety drivers'' behind the wheel. What will it take to get them out? [...]

Shortly before 2 p.m. on a clear July day in 2020, as Tracy Forth was driving near Tampa, Fla., her white Tesla Model S was hit from behind by another [...]

TORONTO -- In late February, Microsoft opened four floors of new office space near the top of a 50-story glass tower in downtown Toronto, a block from Scotiabank Arena, home [...]

In the fall of 2019, Google told the world it had reached ''quantum supremacy.'' It was a significant scientific milestone that some compared to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. [...]

The metaverse, one of the most buzzy terms of the tech industry, could be many things. It could be a virtual world where imagination is the only limit. Or it [...]

The work of Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi ''demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation,'' the committee said. Three scientists received the [...]

As soon as Tom Smith got his hands on Codex -- a new artificial intelligence technology that writes its own computer programs -- he gave it a job interview. He [...]

Neural networks could give online education a boost by providing automated feedback to students. This spring, Philips Pham was among the more than 12,000 people in 148 countries who took [...]

The problem of bias in artificial intelligence is facing increasing scrutiny from regulators and is a growing business for start-ups and tech stalwarts. In 2018, Liz O'Sullivan and her colleagues [...]

It was sleek, cone-shaped, a little confusing -- like something Hollywood would give a sci-fi villain for a quick getaway. It wasn't a helicopter. And it wasn't an airplane. It [...]

Many in Silicon Valley promised that self-driving cars would be a common sight by 2021. Now the industry is resetting expectations and settling in for years of more work. It [...]

Real scalpels, artificial intelligence -- what could go wrong? Sitting on a stool several feet from a long-armed robot, Dr. Danyal Fer wrapped his fingers around two metal handles near [...]

To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . In 2018, a far-right activist, Tommy Robinson, posted a video to [...]

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. -- Over the rolling, scrub-spotted hills of the Southern California coast, where defense contractors once tested rockets and lasers for President Ronald Reagan's ''Star Wars'' missile defense [...]

When tech companies created the facial recognition systems that are rapidly remaking government surveillance and chipping away at personal privacy, they may have received help from an unexpected source: your [...]

The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say. When the coronavirus pandemic reached her [...]

We are more dependent on technology than ever. Can it handle the strain? Next week, Bits will be evolving into the On Tech With Shira Ovide newsletter. With a pandemic [...]

This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series , which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve. SAN FRANCISCO -- Last week, on [...]