Technology

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In “I, Robot,” three Laws of Robotics align artificially intelligent machines with humans. Could we rein in chatbots with laws of our own?

The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong?

A new book, “Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading,” argues that notions get taken up not because of their virtue but because of their catchiness.

The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control.

The C.E.O. of OpenAI helped usher artificial intelligence into public life. Now, as fears and fortunes mount, his own transformation is just beginning.

Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”

Global technology companies are becoming table stakes in the struggle to establish whatever new world order is emerging.

Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book, “Searches.” But the most moving sections are the ones she wrote herself.

Peering at our relationship to technology.

For much of history, gossip has functioned as a regulating force—one with the power to burnish its subjects’ reputations or to cast them from society. Have new technologies changed the game?

There’s no longer any scenario in which A.I. fades into irrelevance. We urgently need voices from outside the industry to help shape its future.

A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?

It might allow us to keep everything, forever.

What do the believers in “tech supremacy” plan to do with the federal government?

The center of the Earth is so hot that it could satisfy the entire world’s energy needs. But can scientists safely tap into it?

Alexander Karp, Palantir’s philosopher-C.E.O., thinks that a restored military-industrial complex can make our country great again.

People have wondered forever what determines the patterns that animals wear. We’re starting to figure it out.

The author of “Jurassic Park” understood that technologies often wriggle out of the grasp of their creators.

Social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message; politicians now have to shape themselves into optimized vessels for social media.