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A bill to bolster the nation’s unemployment insurance program reflects the concern — and the risks — in Washington.

Ahead of the midterms, Natasha Sarin and Catherine Rampell unpack the state of the economy — and how much responsibility the president bears for it.

If you’ve turned to A.I. for emotional support or help with sticky situations, Times Opinion wants to hear from you.

Alpha School, a private network, is spreading into public education. While its students’ test scores are high, some parents and educators say it doesn’t live up to the hype.

Scary, inspiring or just plain weird? The “Interesting Times” guest host Tyler Cowen asks Trump’s top science adviser, Michael Kratsios, why the White House is rebranding A.I. as “superintelligence.”

Are we ignoring America’s STEM pipeline? Trump’s top science adviser, Michael Kratsios, makes the case on “Interesting Times” for investment in home-grown scientists over highly skilled immigrants.

Readers discuss a professor’s Opinion essay that suggested doing so. Also: Children without lawyers at deportation hearings; legal rights for robots?

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.

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

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

Tech companies are painting data centers with gray coatings on top of gray concrete and steel to resist fire, rust and static electricity. That has made data centers a fast-growing market for paint makers.

Music from artificial intelligence is proliferating across Spotify, Apple and other platforms — but it’s not always clear what you’re getting.

The move is the latest illustration of a company saying it believes it can be more efficient with fewer workers because of artificial intelligence.

The agreement that Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, cut to stay in California underscores businesses’ fears about a major tax proposal.

The tech giant is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” which would pay homes and businesses to adjust their energy use when grids are strained.

The Trump administration’s plan to supercharge scientific discovery.

The Trump administration’s plan to supercharge scientific discovery.

Economists hope earlier episodes of labor disruption, from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression, can help us prepare for the age of artificial intelligence.

A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.