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The US Department of Defense has a lot of congressionally mandated homework to do every year involving hundreds of required reports on various national security topics. But Pentagon officials have ...

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What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company.

Many people are turning to artificial intelligence for personal finance advice. Writing a good AI prompt can mean the difference between receiving a reasonable or poor output, experts said. While AI ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found. Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the ...