Late last year, a delegation from Waymo met with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s staff as she considered measures to legalize the company’s self-driving taxis in New York. Waymo floated an idea: If New York allowed the company to offer driverless rides to the public, it could provide millions of dollars to benefit taxi drivers and other…
SpaceX may have held the biggest initial public offering of all time, but Wall Street may be expecting something even bigger from Elon Musk, the rocket company’s chief executive. Many of his fans and investors expect him to merge SpaceX with Tesla, the maker of electric cars where he is also chief executive, joining most…
Executives at the artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic received alarming news from the White House on Friday. They had less than 90 minutes, they were told, to take down their newest A.I. models over national security concerns. Inside the company, employees’ group chats immediately lit up. Managers were instructed to prepare customers for a potential service…
We’re back with more from our live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we sit down with Dylan Field, a founder and the chief executive of the design company Figma, for what he describes as a “roller coaster” of a conversation. We cover everything from the…
In an unusually aggressive move, the Justice Department told a federal court in Mississippi that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them. The Justice Department late on Monday said that the court should throw out a lawsuit…
SpaceX said on Tuesday that it would acquire the parent company of Cursor, an artificial intelligence code-writing start-up, for $60 billion, just days after Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company made its record-breaking public market debut. SpaceX agreed to a deal with Cursor in April that gave it the option to acquire the company, an…
At Taiwan’s biggest computing show this month, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, was mobbed as if he were a rock star, trailed by a crowd from booth to booth as he signed autographs and posed for selfies. At the stand of SK Hynix, one of his most important South Korean suppliers, Mr. Huang…
The feud between Anthropic and the Trump administration escalated again on Saturday after the government took the unusual step a day earlier of demanding that the artificial intelligence company cut off foreign access to its latest models, as top officials suggested the dispute was unlikely to resolve quickly. Late on Friday, Anthropic disclosed in a…
The British government plans to ban access to social media for all children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday, after weeks in which the nation debated how it would introduce new protections for children online. Mr. Starmer said the government would introduce the new regulations in Parliament before Christmas and bring a…
SpaceX’s share price continued to surge on Monday, the company’s first full day of trading, adding to its sharp move higher on Friday after its record-breaking public listing. Elon Musk’s rocket maker and artificial intelligence company rose more than 15 percent in early afternoon trading on Monday. In a frenzied few hours of trading on…
