If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

It’s been two whole weeks since the Steam Machine was revealed to the world, and we still have no idea how much it’ll cost. I still don’t know when Valve is going to announce the price, but in the ...

Elaine Chen covers biotech, co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Want to stay on top of ...

College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. A student named ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals trades at a $2.65bn valuation despite slow clinical progress, high cash burn, and no late-stage assets. RXRX's AI-driven drug discovery model is ambitious, but pipeline value ...

An Office Depot worker who was caught on camera refusing to fulfill an order for flyers advertising a vigil for slain conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk has been fired, the company said. The Boca ...

Office Depot has fired a worker at one of its Michigan locations after a viral video showed staff refusing to print posters for a vigil honoring Charlie Kirk, the late conservative activist. The ...

Office Depot has issued an apology after one of its employees refused to make posters featuring conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The worker at a Michigan Office Depot was fired after allegedly ...

A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets ...

It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers. Google has just released a technical report detailing how much ...

More softness in adult nonfiction in the second quarter and slowing sales in adult fiction combined to drop unit sales of print books 1.6% in the first six months of 2025 compared to the same period a ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...