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The executive, Jim Farley, said President Trump’s tariff and auto policies would raise costs and could force the automaker to cut jobs.

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.

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.

The billionaire is leading a group of investors in the unsolicited offer, which complicates the start-up’s plan to raise more money.

At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.

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.

China produces a vast number of STEM graduates, but it hasn’t been known for innovation. Cultural and political factors may help explain why.

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.

Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out.

After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country’s A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.

Other big technology companies have been boisterous in their courtship of the new administration. But Nvidia and Microsoft have avoided the Washington spotlight.

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.

The Southern California start-up, which builds flying drones and missiles, is set to raise up to $2.5 billion.

The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank would invest up to $40 billion in the maker of the chatbot ChatGPT.

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.

The company’s cloud computing business showed strong growth, while a forecast for the current quarter disappointed investors.

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger who died, was hired to join the firm’s American Dynamism investment team.

The company’s board pledged to investors that it would pay closer attention to how the company managed workers.

The Silicon Valley giant also said it was reviewing other diversity programs and initiatives and would update them if they seemed risky or ineffective.

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface.