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Reid J. Epstein January 16, 2026

A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated...

Cade Metz January 16, 2026

The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its...

Cade Metz January 16, 2026

The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its...

Steven Lee Myers, Tiffany Hsu and Stuart A. Thompson January 16, 2026

The shutdown of online discourse within Iran has allowed both the government and its critics to flood...

Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Leah Shaw Dameron and Alyssa Moxley January 16, 2026

“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.NYT >...

Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur and Sheera Frenkel January 15, 2026

Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and...

Ivan Penn and Karen Weise January 15, 2026

Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives...

David Yaffe-Bellany January 15, 2026

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major...

Ali Watkins January 15, 2026

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real...