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What if You Could Taste Food From 1,000 Miles Away?

Scientists tested a device that showed promise at functioning like virtual reality goggles for your mouth. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/hMxXj1q

Microsoft Will Shut Down Skype in Favor of a Free Version of Teams

The company plans to move users of the pioneering service, which it bought in 2011, to Microsoft Teams. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/iKgvBEn

Anthropic’s C.E.O., Dario Amodei, on Surviving the A.I. Endgame

“I’m just worried that it’ll be a shock to people when it happens.” from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/kxFMoLi

Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media

The employee objected to a post on X by Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and a top adviser to President Trump, that referred to Nazi leaders. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/REmzIKc

OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology for ‘Natural Conversation’

The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Qe5x467

A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software

I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/6YDrx0S

Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech’s AI Boom

The Silicon Valley company, which dominates the market for chips needed to build A.I. systems, said revenue was up 78 percent from a year ago. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/ZEMXR3O

How to Watch the Launch of Intuitive Machines’s Second Moon Landing Mission

The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its Athena lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft are also flying on the SpaceX rocket. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/egRAoqV

Amazon Unveils Alexa+, Powered by Generative A.I.

Amazon is aiming to catch up in generative artificial intelligence and to reboot its virtual assistant, which has been leapfrogged by powerful chatbots. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/PycqOVg

Tesla Stock Falls 8% as Concerns About Elon Musk’s Political Role Grow

The electric-car maker’s stock has had a bumpy ride since the victory of President Trump, who has given Tesla’s chief, Elon Musk, a role in Washington. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/sfxoZk4

iPhone Dictation Feature Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’

The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/eh7dv4y

Apple Plans to Invest $500 Billion in U.S. as Trump Tariffs Loom

The company pledged the multibillion-dollar investment over the next four years and said it would create 20,000 jobs. The Texas facility is set to open in 2026. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Dp8hJgU

Earth’s 1st Asteroid Mining Prospector Heads to the Launchpad

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/eWX09bJ

Big Day for Crypto Goes South After Bybit Hack

Hours after Coinbase said the S.E.C. was dropping a lawsuit against it, another major cryptocurrency exchange reported a potentially record-setting theft. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/JD6atvj

Apple Pulls iPhone Security Feature in UK

Law enforcement in the country was pressuring the company to create a tool that would act like a back door into customers’ data. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/3cdtgkV

OpenAI Uncovers Evidence of A.I.-Powered Chinese Surveillance Tool

The company said a Chinese operation had built the tool to identify anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/HYLkMZd

Coinbase Says S.E.C. Will Drop Crypto Lawsuit

The end of a court fight with the largest U.S. crypto company would be a big win for an industry that financially backed President Trump. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/EJ2mWFr

How ‘Based’ Is Grok 3? + Robinhood C.E.O. Vlad Tenev on Markets for Everything + Vibecoding 101

“Elon Musk is willing to spend a phenomenal amount of money and basically do everything he can to stay with the head of the pack on A.I. progress.” from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/ZbIY5EM

Elon Musk Is Focused on DOGE. What About Tesla?

Mr. Musk, one of President Trump’s main advisers, has not outlined a plan to reverse falling sales at the electric car company of which he is chief executive. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/dMWEBhP

With Truth Social, Trump Has an Official Mouthpiece and a Revenue Stream

The president’s company, Trump Media & Technology Group, represents a clear mingling of his official duties and his business interests. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/eflEFIu

Nikola, E.V. Start-Up That Once Thrilled Investors, Files for Bankruptcy

The company, which once enjoyed a surging stock price, struggled to turn its plans for electric and hydrogen trucks into a viable business. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/TVNShyF

The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself

How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away? from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/vHqR8NK

HP to Buy Humane, Maker of the Ai Pin, for $116 Million

Humane, which marketed its Ai Pin as the next big thing after smartphones, had raised $240 million from investors, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The pin will be discontinued. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/91v0rPt

OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer Starts Her Own Company

Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/HOTCxjP

They’ve Been Waiting Years to Go Public. They’re Still Waiting.

Some tech companies are delaying or pulling their listing plans as the Trump administration’s tariff announcements and other changes cause market volatility and uncertainty. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/81N90YT

Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry

The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/8U3l9eA

With Trump’s Help, Intel Could Hand Control of Chip Plants to TSMC

The Silicon Valley giant is trying to cut a deal it hopes would help it pull out of a yearslong slump. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/QglYNWs

OpenAI Rejects Elon Musk’s Bid to Gain Control of the Company

Bret Taylor, the chairman of OpenAI’s board, said the artificial intelligence company was “not for sale.” Mr. Musk and other investors had offered $97.4 billion earlier this week. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/QhzNslS

What’s Best, According to the Italian Mathematician Alessio Figalli

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/27Yq4wW

Banks Sell $4.7 Billion of X’s Debt, in a Sign of Investor Demand

The social media company is attracting investor interest because of Elon Musk’s close ties to President Trump and a recent jump in revenue. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/GBb9nCT

TikTok Returns to Apple and Google App Stores

The popular social media app was removed to comply with a new law that banned it in the United States. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/BQyuc2P

Blue Origin Cuts 10% of Its Employees

In an email to employees, the company’s chief executive said the company had become bloated during its growth in recent years. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Du6PUzG

For Trump and Fox News, New Policies Are Simply ‘Common Sense’

President Trump and the network have used the phrase to suggest that his policies are the right ones and popular, though polling suggests otherwise. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/4Iq2bu5

Elon Musk’s X Settles Trump Lawsuit

The social media site agreed to pay in the range of $10 million to settle with the president, who had sued over the suspension of his account in 2021. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/rkEK0DF

OpenAI Questions Rationale of Elon Musk’s Bid to Control the Company

The company answered the billionaire’s offer in a legal filing, accusing him of hypocrisy. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/inXZc0y

Google Calendar Removes a Number of Cultural Events

The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/d0ZLBam

Digital Estate Planning: How to Prepare Your Social Media Accounts

When planning your estate, leave instructions for handling your online accounts, data and other electronic affairs. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/FdJZkGV

How Did DeepSeek Build Its A.I. With Less Money?

The Chinese start-up used several technological tricks, including a method called “mixture of experts,” to significantly reduce the cost of building the technology. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/RlM8VFJ

Ford Chief Executive Says Trump Policies May Lead to Layoffs

The executive, Jim Farley, said President Trump’s tariff and auto policies would raise costs and could force the automaker to cut jobs. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/8PcaXeS

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up

Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling from President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Ypx01P3

Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate A.I.

Speaking in Paris at an artificial intelligence summit, the vice president gave an America First vision of the technology — with the U.S. dominating the chips, the software and the rules. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Vma5BKD

Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/ByD3MEQ

Elon Musk Leads Bid to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to change its nonprofit status. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/RIZFNW6

5 Notes from the Big Paris A.I. Summit

At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/IMDKl5B

At A.I. Summit in Paris, a Push for Innovation Before Regulation

Europe wants to be a top contender in the race to become a world leader in artificial intelligence, but investors are concerned that it has too much red tape and that its taxes are too high. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/1zy2x9f

What DeepSeek’s Success Tells Us About China’s Ability to Nurture Talent

China produces a vast number of STEM graduates, but it hasn’t been known for innovation. Cultural and political factors may help explain why. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/DduKaR7

Cyberattack Disrupts Publication of Lee Newspapers Across the U.S.

The media company Lee Enterprises said a “cybersecurity event” had created havoc at dozens of its newspapers, prompting some to publish shorter editions or not print at all. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/lYvc8L2

Early Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses

Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/7TpojWn

Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Data Center Spending Boom Alive

An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/UhwjJb9

Right-Wing Crusade Against USAID Has Been Fueled by Falsehoods

As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/3jyVPOI

A.I. Military Start-Up Anduril Close to Deal That Would Value Company at $28 Billion

The Southern California start-up, which builds flying drones and missiles, is set to raise up to $2.5 billion. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/GATH9Eu

OpenAI Close to Deal that Values Company at $300 Billion

The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would invest up to $40 billion in the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/Kk49vaz

Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/9BgaiHe

The Musketeers Take Washington + Spotify’s Ghost Music + Tool Time

“The way to control government is to control the computers” from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/oPLgmcS

C. Richard Kramlich, Early Investor in Silicon Valley, Dies at 89

He was among the first backers of Apple Computer and 3Com, earning windfalls, but it was his humaneness that distinguished him from other venture capitalists. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/MBbRhY1

As Elon Musk Attacks DEI, Tesla Quietly Addresses Racism Complaints

The company’s board pledged to investors that it would pay closer attention to how the company managed workers. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/B5Y3QAV

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring Daniel Penny

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, was hired to join the firm’s American Dynamism investment team. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/oF9kOsh

Google Unwinds Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s DEI Orders

The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/DPaOieL

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

According to Jordan Harrison’s museum piece of a play, we are long extinct by 2240. But the future has kept our Betamaxes. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/jgR2bPC

Alphabet Earnings Fall Short of Expectations as Google Cloud Sales Disappoint

The internet giant reported sales that narrowly missed Wall Street’s estimates and worried investors about the company’s A.I. business. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/FtxsLZw

Elon Musk’s X Becomes Weapon in Government Cost Cutting

The billionaire has used the social media site to boast of victories, lash out at enemies and conduct polls for the initiative he calls the Department of Government Efficiency. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/mUwIgWQ

With China’s Antitrust Investigation Into Google, What’s at Stake?

China said it had started an antitrust investigation of Google, which works with Chinese companies on smartphones and advertising outside the country. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/zhwQ0fS

How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It

A new law says TikTok must be sold to a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. President Trump has thrown out a lot of options for a potential sale. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/tFfbBIG

Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/F5WYQV7

Musk Allies Discuss Deploying A.I. to Find Budget Savings

A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/JVNPjYi

OpenAI Unveils New A.I. Agent for Research

The tool, called Deep Research, arrives days after OpenAI released another one, which shops for groceries and books restaurant reservations. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/rkA8Ond

Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs Could Hurt Carmakers

General Motors and a few other companies make as much as 40 percent of their North American cars and trucks in Canada and Mexico, leaving them vulnerable to tariffs. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/ORXPaJi

A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent

Operator, a new computer-using tool from OpenAI, is brittle and occasionally erratic, but it points to a future of powerful A.I. agents. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/F7T8y14

A Look at OpenAI’s Operator, a New A.I. Agent

Operator, a new computer-using tool from OpenAI, is brittle and occasionally erratic, but it points to a future of powerful A.I. agents. from NYT > Technology https://ift.tt/MKoF9Cv