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Last year, when the novelist Laura Brooke Robson began writing Love Is an Algorithm—a love story between the cofounder of…

A few months ago, my fiancée and I splurged on a pair of ebikes. We live in an especially hilly…

In the 60 years that ELIZA has been influencing computation and culture, conventional accounts portray it as the earliest example…

AI model developers have long offered consumers a simple deal: Use our technology for free through an online chatbot, or…

Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s nothing to…

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor…

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other tools like them are making artificial intelligence available to the masses. We can now get…

Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your…

Buried deep inside everything announced at WWDC this year was something I, an Apple Shortcuts enthusiast, can’t wait to try:…

Children under the age of 16 will be banned from social media platforms in the UK, under new measures announced…

Lilian Schmidt could not, for the life of her, figure out how to get her daughter to go to sleep.None…

As public backlash to the seeming omnipresence of artificial intelligence intensifies, the collective quest to weed out—and reject—telltale signs of…

On March 31, I received an email from Norse Atlantic Airways. The $940 flights for my upcoming round trip to…

Sam Liang is appalled as I confess my technique for recording an interview: running the Voice Memos app on an…

Nearly half of Americans say they use AI to find information and generate ideas. It’s not hard to see why.…

At first, the winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize for 2026 enjoyed the envy of their peers. But…