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

Paul Mozur and David E. Sanger    Microsoft said it would invest . billion in G, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.

Kevin Roose    Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.

J. D. Biersdorfer    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.

Jonathan Moens    In a first, the legislation extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

Jack Ewing    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.

Steven Kurutz    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.

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

Tariq Panja    We will be attacked, the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying bug bounties to hackers.

Jessica Roy    Another solution to a problem we didn’t know we had.

Sapna Maheshwari and Mike Isaac    Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

Jack Ewing    Along with the departure of two senior executives, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.

Jack Ewing    Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker’s sales.

Victoria Gomelsky    Swiss brands and retailers now have a few options to determine what’s happening with the industry. Just a couple of years ago, they had almost none.

Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano    Mistral, a French start up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen    This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.

Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu    Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.

Brian X. Chen and Andri Tambunan    The Ai Pin, funded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft, can be helpful until it struggles with tasks like doing math and crafting sandwich recipes.

Cade Metz    This year’s honor will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli born mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who specializes in randomness.

Yiwen Lu    The human work of teaching A.I. is getting a lot more complex as the technology improves.