
Artificial intelligence presents both opportunities and pitfalls for women.
More than a third of working women are engaged in occupations at risk of being disrupted by AI versus 60% of men. The difference between genders is particularly stark given that

They may not be great singers, but the new ChatGPT voice models from OpenAI have sure come a long way. In a widely viewed demo this week, the company showed off its new flagship model, GPT-4o, with company cofounder and president Greg Brockman putting two generative AI bots in conversation with each other—and asking the pair to sing a song about t

Freeform chat-powered tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney have captured much of the attention paid to generative AI, but increasingly, the technology is being used behind the scenes to breathe new life into a variety of software applications.
“We’ve really been kind of witnessing the birth of one of the most pi

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Like many journalists, I used to have editors to help polish my prose. Now I work independently. No more editors.
I still need an outside perspective, though, and copy editing help. (Does this make sense? Are th

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Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and gender biases are well documented.
If society could somehow remove bias, would all problems go away? The late Nobel laureate

Seventy years ago on Friday, no one outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building heard it when Chief Justice Earl Warren announced the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school desegregation.
Now, through the use of an innovative voice-cloning technology, it is becoming possible for people to “hear” Warren read the decision as he did on May

U.S. digital bank Chime is launching a product that will allow customers to access up to $500 of their wages before payday, the latest move by a financial technology company to enter the fast-growing “earned wage access” market.
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Elon Musk warned us this was coming. Now, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) has apparently followed through on his threat to begin treating the words “cis” and “cisgender” as slurs, the latest in a number of moves on the social media site that some view as targeting transgender individuals.
Posting to X via the mobile app with the words “cisgender” or “cis” results in an interstitial warning screen reading, “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could b

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released on Wednesday a long-anticipated road map for governing artificial intelligence, which called for some $32 billion in annual spending for AI research and development by 2026. The bipartisan proposal, which is meant as a guide for the Senate’s legislative efforts on AI, grew out of a yearlong series of “insight forums,” which inc