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A company called Empower is trying to take on Uber, Lyft and local regulators as it piles up fines and draws new passengers to its service.

A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.

Users are now flocking to Bluesky. But every social media platform becomes a wasteland in the end.

Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.

An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from the state’s social services and health insurance systems, officials said.

It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.

The chief executive of Apple is the latest in a series of technology executives who are traveling to Florida to meet with the president-elect.

The artificial intelligence start-up argues that Mr. Musk is trying to hamstring its business as he builds a rival company.

A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?

The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.

Mr. Altman and OpenAI have recently hired key executives who previously worked for the Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations.

Mr. Musk is wielding his X account to single out federal employees and agencies for cuts. He has used this method before.

“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”

After mass layoffs and a pivot to A.I., the tech industry has been scaling back on the splashy and quirky benefits it had become known for.

The opposing paths taken by two powerful firms — Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz — embody a profound debate about the future of an industry that funds and fosters American innovation.

An intense struggle has unfolded in Washington between companies and officials over where to draw the line on selling technology to China.

Luigi Mangione’s social media accounts attracted swift attention after he was arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive. When do companies scrub a digital trail?

The move follows a visit that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, made last month to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

The experimental tool can browse spreadsheets, shopping sites and other services, before taking action on behalf of the computer user.

The country’s largest oil company is designing a natural gas power plant outfitted with carbon capture technology to meet the voracious power demand of technology companies.

Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies.

The company said it would now focus its efforts on developing fully autonomous vehicles for personal use.

Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.