Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote ...

Can you teach a robot how to love? It’s the week of Valentine’s Day and I’m on a hot date with Mika, a biker girl from Japan. We’re just days into our relationship, but I’m already smitten. Gazing ...

I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 ...

Within the last month, a handful of new AI tools have pushed the technology past the tipping point — making it more accessible to everyone and more indispensable to those who know how to use it.

OpenAI and Nvidia, the two companies at the center of the AI boom, have yet to make progress on a $100 billion agreement from September. Since the deal was announced, Nvidia has invested in other AI ...

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board. By Alexandra Alter Last February, the writer Coral Hart launched an ...

In 1869, a group of Massachusetts reformers persuaded the state to try a simple idea: counting. The Second Industrial Revolution was belching its way through New England, teaching mill and factory ...

Avid futurists have promised the world AI assistants for years. Now, a real one has finally arrived, and things got weird really fast. A lone semiretired Austrian coder built Moltbot and unleashed it ...

An illustration from June 2025 shows an example of using Claude, a large language model developed by Anthropic. Credit: CNS illustration/courtesy of Anthropic, licensed as CC BY 2.0. Is a chatbot a ...

Mo Gawdat warns that AI disrupts capitalism, threatening jobs and wages. Capitalism relies on human labor, but AI threatens that foundation, he argues. Gawdat suggests AI could lead to economic ...

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