Engagement and addiction have fueled social-media platforms for decades. AI labs appear to be on the same track, but there’s a better alternative.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/to-build-a-better-ai-reverse-its-antisocial-tendencies-ab4006d7?mod=rss_Technology
Ashley St. Clair is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop xAI’s Grok from creating images that undress her.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/influencer-who-had-child-with-elon-musk-sues-xai-over-deepfake-images-921d1eb8?mod=rss_Technology
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will add new factories to its cluster in Arizona as part of a $250 billion investment in the U.S.https://www.wsj.com/tech/taiwan-pledges-250-billion-in-u-s-spending-in-exchange-for-lower-tariffs-7b7ebb8d?mod=rss_Technology
Filipino engineer co-founded semiconductor firms and financed startups in Silicon Valley.https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/diosdado-bantao-chip-designer-dead-79-f205c32b?mod=rss_Technology
The price of a premium subscription in the U.S. will rise to $12.99 a month from $11.99.https://www.wsj.com/business/media/spotify-increases-price-of-premium-subscriptions-92e0dec8?mod=rss_Technology
The copper, which is being produced in Arizona by Rio Tinto with bacteria and acid, will be used for data-center construction.https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/amazon-is-buying-americas-first-new-copper-output-in-more-than-a-decade-516a0a1f?mod=rss_Technology
Find insight on data center investments, Airbnb, Netflix and more in the latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom.https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-media-telecom-roundup-market-talk-b8e85f11?mod=rss_Technology
Gov. Gavin Newsom said “vile” images of women and children prompted the probe of Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/california-attorney-general-investigating-xai-over-groks-deepfakes-3db36179?mod=rss_Technology
Alibaba Group is rolling out a major update of its Qwen app, integrating the chatbot into its ecosystem and allowing it to carry out tasks on users’ behalf.https://www.wsj.com/tech/chinas-alibaba-links-qwen-ai-app-to-vast-consumer-ecosystem-17b4f942?mod=rss_Technology
Self-help gurus like Matthew Hussey and Gabby Bernstein have expanded their empires with AI chatbots promising personalized advicehttps://www.wsj.com/style/ai-self-help-chat-bots-tony-robbins-gabby-bernstein-0cf8b3b0?mod=rss_Technology
The ChatGPT-maker is racing to secure more computing power, especially for responding to user queries.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-forges-multibillion-dollar-computing-partnership-with-cerebras-746a20e4?mod=rss_Technology
Verizon customers across the U.S. lost service Wednesday, inconveniencing millions—including one grumpy columnist.https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/verizon-outage-cell-service-4e235500?mod=rss_Technology
Searching for what’s new—and what’s real—coming out of CES 2026.https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/consumer-electronic-show-2026-highlights-b8c8ab99?mod=rss_Technology
Plus, new dietary guidelines, Monte Carlo for low rollers and stylish spaces to unplug.https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-ai-future-is-already-here-27b8a77e?mod=rss_Technology
Publicly traded drug developers sold more than $13 billion of shares in the fourth quarter, the most in more than four years.https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/funding-for-risky-biotechs-is-returning-fc21ebe7?mod=rss_Technology
Environmentalists spent years throttling our energy supply. They’re at it again.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/theyre-coming-for-our-data-centers-9692227a?mod=rss_Technology
U.K. politicians unleash a new online censorship law against X.com.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/britain-elon-musk-x-ofcom-keir-starmer-5c947f26?mod=rss_Technology
Wall Street uses roll-ups to buy growth. There’s a much more effective alternative.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/go-around-and-strangle-things-57f790d4?mod=rss_Technology
The cuts affected 10% of staff as spending shifts to its AI glasses and other wearables products.https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-2026-347008b0?mod=rss_Technology
Korea’s efforts show how hard it is to develop homegrown AI models and break a reliance on U.S. or Chinese tech giants.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-row-over-south-koreas-push-for-a-native-ai-model-chinese-code-4c047a6f?mod=rss_Technology