Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks. More

Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned. More

Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket. More

Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others. More

The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service. More

The grant to the memory chipmaker is the latest federal award aimed at boosting U.S. chip manufacturing. More

The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government. More

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale. More

It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying. More

In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies. More

The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware. More

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own. More

Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class. More

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers. More

It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency. More