Technology

It was supposed to be a sleepy year for the video game industry. Then came surprise hits like Balatro, Animal Well and Astro Bot. Read full article

The Sound Towns of 2023 have been replaced with features such as an A.I.-driven podcast about users’ listening habits and word-salad-like genre summaries. Read full article

GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather. Read full article

Amazon, Advanced Micro Devices and several start-ups are beginning to offer credible alternatives to Nvidia’s chips, especially for a phase of A.I. development known as “inferencing.” Read full article

The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel’s military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation. Read full article

The federal judge who ruled Google was a monopolist in search is weighing the U.S. government’s proposal to force the company to sell its Chrome browser. Here’s what happens now. Read full article

The Silicon Valley company will receive less money from the CHIPS Act after winning a $3 billion military contract and changing some of its investment commitments. Read full article

Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series. Read full article

“I just love imagining all of the angry emails we’re going to get from people who are like, ‘Why did you put the fulcrum on this list?’” Read full article

The Biden administration is reducing its award to the chip maker, partly to account for a multibillion-dollar military contract. Read full article