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Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company's clout.

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.

Google's A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.

The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia's chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.

The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company's computing power.

The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

Systems like OpenAI's GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.

If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.