3+ hour, 15+ min ago  (414+ words) There's a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy " Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots " and thinks: what if these people worked for AI bosses instead? Alexander Liteplo is…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (314+ words) ChatGPT challenged our sense of our own humanity because suddenly an A.I. model was speaking. Agents take this one step further, allowing us to control our machines " and anything in the world that runs on a digital platform " by voice commands....

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (392+ words) The universe is unfathomably vast, and for the astronomers trying to understand it, that means having to gather a commensurately mind-boggling amount of data. Wouldn't it be nice if there was something that could help speed through looking for patterns…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (242+ words) A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models "are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity" " that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low....

4+ week, 8+ hour ago  (503+ words) For years now, Facebook's feeds have been drowned out by an unrelenting tidal wave of AI slop, turning the platform " which feels like it's long been abandoned by practically anybody under the age of 65 " into an unrecognizable digital hellscape. It's…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (256+ words) No one would visualize designing an airplane today by hand, nor would you want to fly an airplane designed by hand," Thrive Capital partner Vince Hankes told Fortune's Allie Garfinkle. But all of our drugs are designed like that." In…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (392+ words) It's time to "get back to basics" in math, Gov. Kathy Hochul says as she calls for sensible curricular and instruction changes. She's right; too bad she has zero power over New York's education apparatus. Progressive "reforms" last century put…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (945+ words) With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence around the world over the past year, the technology's potential to cause harm has become clearer. Reports of AI-related incidents rose 50% year-over-year from 2022 to 2024, and in the 10 months to October 2025, incidents had already…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (266+ words) The word didactic has appeared in 58 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 24 in "Marty Supreme" Review: Timoth'e Chalamet Sprints to the Top," by Manohla Dargis: The film touches on big, weighty subjects like Jewish identity,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (264+ words) In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics. " Wes…...