The New York Times

Our reporters share a compendium of debuts, discoveries and (sometimes overdue) appearances in the paper.

Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing.

Elon Musk’s company and other automakers, like Jaguar and Bentley, are trying to sell very expensive electric cars to people who usually prefer gasoline-fueled luxury and performance.

The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

The company held an investor meeting on Wednesday as it plans a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as next month.

The streamer’s share price is down more than 40 percent over the last year as the company has struggled with stalling engagement.

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, questioning the company’s $6.6 billion in tax breaks.

Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.

As artificial intelligence bots spread, we are increasingly glimpsing how these digital entities interact and what they talk about with one another.

OpenAI said that the employee had placed a device built to evade detection and that he had planned to secretly record meetings in other sensitive spaces.

Apple unveiled the device as it continues its foray into artificial intelligence and tries to prove it can still innovate.

The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are meant to compete with cutting-edge A.I. models from rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.

For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of universal basic income programs, which Elon Musk and other tech leaders have promoted as a solution to A.I.-fueled job losses.

On the Science desk, Victoria Jaggard spends her days pondering the universe’s most pressing mysteries.