For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Now, one small U.S. company is pushing back. Today, ...

X announced that it will display the region in which an account is based. The information is visible under the new "About This Account" section. X removed the feature for some accounts on Saturday.

You'll soon be able to see more information about X accounts, including where they're based and how many times they've changed their usernames. X is rolling out a new feature called "About this ...

Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States. By Yan Zhuang X launched a ...

A new feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are ...

So: what were the best works of science fiction published this year? I will start with two new books that aren’t actually new, but have only just been published in English. First up is Ice by Jacek ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

Narrowing down the best books of 2025 to a list of 15 inevitably means leaving out fine works, including Shadow Ticket, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon in 12 years, and We Do Not Part by Nobel Prize ...