The Elon Musks of the world might want us to believe that Starlink is the true wave of the future, but we will be using underwater cable systems for at least the next three decades.

Rivian, known for its large electric trucks, is setting its sights on small and lightweight vehicles.

App-based drivers plan to demonstrate in L.A., San Francisco and San Diego on Wednesday as the state continues negotiations with gig economy companies.

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Shares in genetic testing firm 23andMe dropped Monday after the company declared bankruptcy and California reminded consumers of their right to have their data deleted.

In an all-hands company meeting broadcast on X, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk urged employees to hold on to their shares, which have fallen in value by 34% year to date.

OpenAI held a screening event on Wednesday, where several filmmakers touted work they made with the startup's text-to-video tool Sora.

More than 400 Hollywood creatives, including director Guillermo del Toro, comedian Chris Rock and "Wicked" actor Cynthia Erivo, signed a letter urging the White House Office of Science and Technology to uphold existing copyright protections.

The fancifully named Department of Government Efficiency is grounded in a fundamental misapprehension of how the federal government works. The recklessness and destruction is not a bug but a feature.

Various factors have weighed on tech stocks this year, including investor unease over Trump's tariffs and AI spending.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is scaling back its unit that deals with cryptocurrency enforcement. Scams using the technology are rampant.

'The Apprentice,' which premiered in 2004, helped propel Donald Trump to new heights and set the stage for his political career. Now it's streaming on Amazon.

Elon Musk's legal dispute against OpenAI could affect the future of one of the most prominent leaders in artificial intelligence.

The Department of Justice is reaffirming a proposal that a court force Google to sell Chrome to restore competition in online search.

Journalism schools teach that writers should report the news, not be the news.

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President Trump signed an executive order to establish a 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' and a 'U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile' ahead of the White House's first crypto summit.

The actions of the Trump administration's FTC and FCC are oddly out of step with the positions on free speech JD Vance staked out in Europe last month.

Ask a generative AI program for 'historical' footage and what you get could spell the end of documents and documentaries we can believe in.

The companies announced the job cuts during the week they released their quarterly earnings.

One weekend in L.A. Twenty-one million Pokemon caught. How has a mobile game outlasted the fads and maintained such a grip on its fans?

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An artificial intelligence startup is under fire for allegedly releasing chatbots that harmed the mental health of young people.

Apple is among tech giants unveiling plans about how they plan to invest billions in the United States as they face potential tariffs and tech policy changes during President Trump's second term.

The social media giant says the multibillion-dollar project will connect the United States, India, Brazil, South Africa and other regions.

Tech companies, facing legal risks and a new political climate, are scaling back, cutting or rethinking efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

OpenAI's board rejected a $97.4-billion bid by an Elon Musk-led investment group to buy the San Francisco startup. OpenAI's board chair said the company is not for sale.

Several film and TV writers say they are horrified their scripts are being used by tech companies to train AI models without writers' permission. They are pressuring studios to take legal action.

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The Trump administration's attack on the key foreign aid agency undermines U.S. influence, pleases autocrats in Russia and China, and could help Tesla's overseas business.

Google is the latest company to roll back DEI efforts amid more political pressure to do so under President Trump.

President Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, the leader of the world's largest social network, have butted heads in the past. Now Zuckerberg is reshaping Meta for the Trump era.

The self-driving taxi company Waymo launched in Los Angeles in November, bringing roughly 100 autonomous vehicles to neighborhoods from Santa Monica to West Hollywood.

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U.S. tech stocks, including Nvidia, Oracle and Broadcom, plummeted Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek said it created an AI system that can compete against chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT at much lower costs.

President Trump issued an executive order purporting to end government censorship. Critics scoffed, saying his actions do just the opposite.

The assembly of billionaires at Trump's inauguration was a display of wealth and power unlike any before. The display was all the more remarkable given how recently many in tech were politically naive or apathetic.

President Trump unveiled the AI initiative on Tuesday alongside the executives of OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank.

Researchers and startup founders are rushing to develop and deploy drones, sensors and satellite imagery analysis that they believe could have reduced the amount of damage from the Los Angeles fires.

After the Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on TikTok, temporarily shutting down the app, President-elect Trump announced an extension.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.

In a rare move, the FTC issued a statement that revealed it referred a complaint against Snap to the DOJ, alleging that an AI-powered chatbot is harmful to users.

Can Texas and other red states limit children from instant access to vast amounts of online pornography? The Supreme Court will decide.

The SEC alleges Elon Musk violated federal securities law by failing to disclose his more than 5% stake in Twitter on time.

A number of TikTok users appear to be turning to an app called RedNote — more commonly known to its majority-Chinese audience by its Chinese name, Xiaohongshu.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is stepping down and leaving the company's board as the wireless speaker maker tries to win back the trust of its customers.

Tech leaders who once shunned Trump are now meeting with him, touting the opportunities they see in his next term, and bankrolling his inauguration.

Videos of fire-fighting pilots nailing flames with miraculous precision have given Angelenos something to root for during a week of shock, terror and grief.

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Supreme Court is not likely to save TikTok from a U.S. shutdown, but incoming President Trump may try.

With the explosion of fires across the L.A. area, tracking app Watch Duty, which has 7.2 million active users annually, told The Times it counted 600,000 new sign-ups in the last 24 hours.

Mark Zuckerberg and company are ditching fact-checkers for community notes and other updates that reflect shifting U.S. politics.

L.A. tech entrepreneur Mike Johns posted a video of his call to a customer service rep as his self-driving Waymo car kept turning in circles.

Artificial intelligence could achieve sentience in 10 years. We should prepare for these systems to have their own subjective experiences, including sensing pain caused by humans.

California's economic strengths are undermined by its weaknesses in manufacturing and private sector, high-wage job growth. And Democrats aren't helping.

The next great free speech battle will be over artificial intelligence, which deserves as much constitutional deference as older communications technologies.

Google's proposed solutions come after the U.S. Department of Justice urged a judge to force the search giant to sell its popular Chrome browser.

The partnership will give CAA-represented actors and athletes access to YouTube's tools to manage and identify AI content that shows their digital likeness.

TikTok has filed for an emergency reprieve with the U.S. Supreme Court to buy more time before a nationwide ban of the social media app is set to go into effect next month.

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Meta, Amazon and OpenAI's CEOs are each directing $1-million donations to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund. Here's what to know.

Writers Guild of America sent a letter to Hollywood studios including Disney, Sony and Netflix, asking them to take action against tech companies who are using writers' work to train AI.

TikTok creators are selling their products during marathon livestreams. Online live selling has been a retail phenomenon for years in China but has been slower to catch on in the U.S.

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Assembly Bill 56 would require social media platforms to warn users about the platform's potential mental health risks to young people.

With the TikTok ban, will the U.S. government for the first time in history outlaw a form of communication?

OpenAI on Monday said it will release its controversial text-to-video tool to the public with different subscription tiers.

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against TikTok's request to strike down a law banning the app or forcing its divestiture. Legal experts expect TikTok will appeal.

A Delaware judge rejected Tesla CEO Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar pay package again, writing that the company's approval process was 'deeply flawed.'

The AI-powered massage robot will open to the public in L.A. on Friday. It scans your body to deliver a precise, if impersonal, spa service.

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Netflix's Paul vs. Tyson boxing match had major technical issues. The company is working to improve the live TV experience for its viewers before two much-hyped NFL games.

With Donald Trump as president, will Chinese tech giant ByteDance still be forced to sell its ownership in TikTok? Here are some possible scenarios of what might happen.

A federal judge is considering ways to restore competition in the online search market. Google says a breakup would hurt consumers.

The use of wearable technology and medical apps increased after the pandemic, but new research suggests that laws offer little protection for consumers who are often unaware just how much of their health data are being collected and shared by companies.

The new law requires large online platforms to remove or label deceptive election content that's been digitally altered or created.

A project to document automated license plate readers arrives as more police agencies are using the surveillance technology.

Chinese LGBTQ+ content creators have learned to navigate murky social media censorship and form queer communities online.

Elon Musk's ties to the Trump administration pose potential conflicts of interest for his various businesses that have extensive contracts with the federal government.

IndieCade's Night Games returns to downtown's Music Center, bringing a host of unique and experimental games focused on communal play. And being silly.

L.A.-area startups received $1.8 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly amount for the region, according to CB Insights. Most of it went to a single company.

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Elwood Edwards, the graphics guru and camera operator who voiced AOL's iconic and once ubiquitous greeting, 'You've got mail,' has died at age 74.

Trump's views on artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, electric vehicles and other issues could reshape the tech industry.

Google is adding more generative AI features to popular navigation apps such as Google Maps and Waze.

Apple customers starting on Wednesday can go to Apple stores for sessions on Apple Intelligence — the company's suite of AI tools.

It turns out that rising out of bed to a round of applause from a red alarm clock called Alarmo might just lead to stronger sleep habits.

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A survey shows that most Americans have seen a deepfake in recent months, and most worry about AI-generated misinformation influencing elections.

The Washington Post has lost about 8% of its readers and the L.A. Times 1.8%. But some argue to stay with the newspapers for their roles in reality checking Donald Trump.

To buttress its defenses against bogus, AI-generated images, Yahoo News is integrating deepfake-detection technology from McAfee into its system.

The former California congressman, consummate Donald Trump lackey and Trump Media chief executive is being accused of mismanagement and cronyism.

'Blade Runner 2049' production company Alcon Entertainment sued Tesla, Elon Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery for copyright infringement. Here's why.

Turmoil at 23andMe, and a lawsuit alleging that GEDmatch shares data with Facebook, highlights how far your genetic information could travel without your consent.

As AI technology advances, industry observers expect to see more deals between tech companies and studios and talent. But major challenges remain.

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A divided FTC adopted a powerful rule that requires companies to make it just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one.

E-commerce giant Amazon joins Google and other tech companies in investing in nuclear power they plan to use in the race to build new AI-powered products.

The world's richest man once said Donald Trump's character didn't 'reflect well' on the U.S. Now Elon Musk is touring the country, and spending big, to put Trump and other Republicans in power.

Fisker Inc. will wind down operations under a bankruptcy plan approved Friday that should allow owners to drive their cars for years. But it will not pay anything to shareholders wiped out investing in the defunct Southern California electric-vehicle maker.

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Elon Musk unveiled the Cybercab on Thursday night at a highly anticipated event, where he also showed off new protoypes of a robovan and humanoid robot.

The Supreme Court refuses to shield Uber and Lyft from California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers.

Sonos, known for its wireless speakers, has a plan to earn back trust from its customers after the botched launch of a new app angered its fans as competition with Google, Apple and other companies heats up.

AB 2839 aimed to label AI-generated content in political ads as "manipulated." A federal judge says the law violates the 1st Amendment.

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Two bills newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom outlaw the possession and distribution of sexually charged images of minors even when they're created with computers, not cameras.

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The governor said he seeks to balance his desire to preserve California's role as the vanguard of technology against his job to shield society from potential harm.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AI safety bill SB-1047, which was opposed by tech companies including ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Facebook parent company Meta.

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Solar, wind, hydrogen and other renewable technologies are likely to become cheaper and available at a rapid clip, creating huge business and political opportunities.

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As artificial intelligence and cloud storage hoover up more and more space on the nation's computer servers, real estate developers are racing to build new data centers or convert existing buildings to data uses.

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A behind the scenes look at a film gala held in San Francisco that screened movies made with artificial intelligence.

X, formerly Twitter, released a formal global transparency report Wednesday for the first time since Musk took over the social media platform.

Hollywood celebrities, including "Star Wars" star Mark Hamill, director J.J. Abrams and SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher sign a letter urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign AI safety bill SB 1047.

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