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After a $2.5 Trillion Wipeout, Tech Investors Brace for More Pain

A stock rally fueled in part by artificial intelligence is being tested after Democrats’ landslide election victories.

© Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Yesterday’s $2.5 trillion sell-off of major tech stocks has investors on edge about the durability of the artificial intelligence sector.

OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections

OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.

© Heather Diehl for The New York Times

OpenAI employees work inside the company’s Election Operations Center in San Francisco.

Cracks in the A.I. Borrowing Binge

Investors are growing increasingly concerned about the debt-fueled spending spree at the heart of the artificial intelligence buildout.

© Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Tech stocks suffered a brutal sell-off last month as artificial intelligence jitters consumed corners of the market.

Biden’s Antitrust Enforcers Are Starting an A.I. Legal Company

Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki, who led the Justice Department’s antitrust division under President Biden, have co-founded a start-up that makes an A.I. tool for litigators.

© Valerie Plesch for The New York Times

From left, Doha Mekki and Jonathan Kanter, the founders of FluxCap, with Marshall Seid, the company’s chief technology officer, in Washington.

What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

© Vincent West/Reuters

A programmer in Guernica, Spain, on Thursday, working on PHP code, software used throughout the internet.

A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

© Nicole Craine for The New York Times

One in five voters plan to use A.I. to look into a race on their ballot, according a survey released this month by the American Association of Political Consultants.

PHP Security Flaw Sets Off Global Rush to Patch, Leaving Websites Offline

Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

© Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press

Prime Minister Rob Jetten of the Netherlands in Brussels last week. He said that his cabinet was closely monitoring the online vulnerability caused by a security flaw in PHP.
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