After being harried by complaints that its search function needed improving, Reddit has in the last few years invested in its search engine, and has even added AI features to help its users find what ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

PCWorld argues that Bing serves as a superior alternative to AI-heavy search engines by prioritizing human-authored content over automated summaries. AI search engines like Google’s AI Mode often hide ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

“Lord of the Rings” superfan Stephen Colbert was tapped to write the latest installment of the wildly popular movie series, studio officials said Wednesday, seizing on the TV personality's unexpected ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

A survey of over 5,000 high school students by the enrollment consulting firm EAB reveals that 46 percent of students are using AI in the college search process—though only about 7 percent said they ...

Costco's Auto Program should be as popular as its $5 rotisserie chicken — but I've learned not too many of its members actually know it exists. I discovered the program this past summer during a ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me ...