
OpenAI’s chatbots scored a big new data source following the company’s deal with News Corp. on Wednesday. With the stroke of a pen, ChatGPT and the company’s other services added the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, MarketWatch, Barron’s, and other publications to its database.
The deal, which did not include Fox News content, was the latest in a growing ser

When journalists sounded alarm bells in early May 2024 that more than 100 extremist militia groups had been organizing and communicating on Facebook, it wasn’t the first time militias had garnered attention for their online

It seems as though the more powerful computers get, the more noticeable it is once they start to buckle under the pressure of multi-tabbed web sessions, unchecked digital hoarding, many-windowed multitasking, and more.
If your Windows 11 PC is taking longer than expected to perform tasks, there are several ways to speed it up—some obvious and others not so.
First, the obvious ways
If you haven’t tried them

Connoisseurs of human-created comedy exhaled, back in January, when an AI-generated George Carlin special turned out to be written and performed by a person. The relief was short-lived, though. Even as that attention-seeking stunt incurred litigation from the long-deceased legend’s estate,

Just nine years after accepting his own sheepskin from Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT), YouTube gadget guru Marques Brownlee was back on campus to deliver the 2024 commencement address at his alma mater on Wednesday, May 22. He’d been given seven minutes in which to deliver his remarks—a time period shorter than the videos he creates for his YouTube followers, he quipped.
“Find

Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars, and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patte

Lately, I’ve been slightly obsessed with maps.
It’s not a wistful nerd fixation, either—I promise. (Though I certainly do have my fair share of those!) Nope: This obsession is all about practical benefit and some splendid ways our modern mapping technology can help us.
We’ve talked about little-known map-centric tricks in my Android Intelligence newsletter a few times recently, including with

Following almost two years’ worth of investigations and chest puffing in Washington, D.C., the government this week filed its much-anticipated lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, accusing the company of antitrust.
It was the formal start of a boxing match that’s likely to go many rounds—and both sides are coming out swinging. When announcing the s

The list of jobs that are being threatened by artificial intelligence is growing by the day, but could generative AI ever take center stage on Broadway?
In the past year, the unions representing Hollywood actors and writers won protections against the potential applications of AI in TV and film—just in ti

The PC just got an AI makeover, raising hopes that the buzzy technology would help revive an industry that has been on a steady decline over the last few years.
Here’s everything we know about AI PCs: