Paul Mozur is the global technology correspondent for The New York Times, based in Taipei. Previously he wrote about technology and politics in Asia from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Seoul. He was part of the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
Since joining The Times in 2014, he has written about China’s tech boom, the geopolitics of semiconductors, how online disinformation in Myanmar aided a genocide, Russian censorship, and the global spread, and abuse, of A.I.-powered surveillance technologies in western China, South America and the Middle East.
Before that, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Standard and The Far Eastern Economic Review, where he covered everything from Malaysian politics and rogue wild boars to the mysteries of Taiwan’s central bank. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Dartmouth College with a double major in English literature and East Asian studies.
Consumer technologies are altering the course of the battle in Myanmar, and rebel drone units are taking notes on Ukraine and other conflicts.
By Hannah Beech, Paul Mozur and Adam Ferguson
The oil-rich kingdom is plowing money into glitzy events, computing power and artificial intelligence research, putting it in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China struggle for technological influence.
By Adam Satariano and Paul Mozur
Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.
By Paul Mozur and David E. Sanger
The magnitude-7.4 quake was followed by more than 200 aftershocks. Dozens of people were trapped. Two buildings in the city of Hualien teetered perilously.
By Meaghan Tobin, Victoria Kim, Chris Buckley, Mike Ives, Siyi Zhao and John Yoon
Rescue efforts in the city were centered on two buildings, one of which appeared near collapse. Some roads to the region were cut off.
By Chris Buckley, Paul Mozur, Meaghan Tobin and John Yoon
China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.
By Paul Mozur and Cade Metz
Facing an election this weekend and the fallout from Aleksei Navalny’s death and the war in Ukraine, Russia has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by China.
By Adam Satariano, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik
China has increasingly turned to private companies in campaigns to hack foreign governments and control its domestic population.
By Paul Mozur, Keith Bradsher, John Liu and Aaron Krolik
China’s tech firms were caught off guard by breakthroughs in generative artificial intelligence. Beijing’s regulations and a sagging economy aren’t helping.
By Paul Mozur, John Liu and Cade Metz
A congressional committee made the demand of the Commerce Department after The Times reported on concerns among U.S. intelligence officials over the Emirati company, G42.
By Edward Wong, Mark Mazzetti and Paul Mozur