The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — ...

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Time to hang it up? Microsoft will be giving some employees that chance. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft is offering a one-time voluntary retirement program for the first time in its 51-year ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Ernie Springer was perched in a deer stand in early February when he put in a call to Doug Mastriano, the Franklin County state senator who was the 2022 Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor.

WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a standard way to deliver compact, binary-format applications that can run in the browser. Wasm is also designed to run at or near machine-native speeds. Developers can ...

The maker of the GLP-1 weight-loss drug Wegovy is promising “a lower, predictable monthly price” for patients who use a new subscription program for the medication. The savings add up to $600 a year ...

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 ...

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

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 ...

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 ...