Across social feeds and campus group chats, a new kind of New Year’s resolution is taking shape for 2026: a deliberate move away from always-on, algorithmic gadgets and toward older, simpler devices.

Masayoshi Son said that his Tokyo-based technology conglomerate would unleash at least $52 billion of investment in French data centers.

Last January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was eager to have an ally in the White House to go after foreign regulations “pushing” American tech firms “to censor more” content. That was days before ...