THE NFL playoffs get underway this week, with every game and every win getting that much bigger. Off the field, you’ll ...

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A social media account that positions itself as an authority on the North Carolina General Assembly posted false information about the state’s driving laws — triggering a wave of inaccurate news ...

Welcome to The Workup, a First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. In 1912, on the banks of the Seine in Paris, Lawrence Sperry, an aviation pioneer, debuted his invention of the autopilot, as he and ...

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to. The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped up everywhere in recent months, including in school papers, ...

Engineers use feedback loops — typically negative feedback is more useful, but positive feedback is needed for oscillators. Negative feedback in an amplifier circuit, which has a negative loop gain, ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

BEIJING—I got a glimpse of a technology that soon could be spreading around the world—if not the U.S. It is a Chinese robotaxi. One of the two I tried featured executive-style chairs and ample luggage ...

When it comes to interacting with artificial intelligence, a huge generation gap has opened up in the three years since ChatGPT debuted and sparked the current AI boom. According to a new Yahoo/YouGov ...

A bipartisan bill could lead to teams being banned from using AI chatbots, in response to parents expressing concerns about inappropriate content ranging from sexual conversations to assistance with ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 19: Apple's iPhone 17 Pro Max on display inside the Apple Store, Regent Street as the new Apple iPhone goes on sale on September 19, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Ming ...