Claire Foy and I meet on the ground floor of the Soho Hotel in a room seemingly lifted from a Country Life interiors spread. I arrive early and move an elaborate flower display from the centre of a ...

Six years after COVID-19 first reached New Zealand, the country is experiencing its ninth wave of infections. But the virus we are living with today behaves very differently from the one that caused ...

Have a complaint about a business? AI may be a lot more effective at explaining your grievances than you are. My colleagues and I analyzed more than one million consumer complaints filed with the ...

In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answers. It was creative.

In honor of Tolkien Reading Day, Peter Jackson appeared in a video where he provided updates on The Hunt for Gollum and announced a new project that’s in development. He also revealed that said ...

On the US-Israel vs Iran conflict, US President Donald Trump says, "We can have dialogue, but I don't want to do a ceasefire. You don't do a ceasefire when you're literally obliterating the other side ...

MADISON, Wis. --- Wisconsin women’s hockey added another chapter to its dynasty this weekend, winning its fifth national championship in the last seven years — and bringing title No. 9 back to Madison ...

Whether students should use AI in the classroom is a hotly contested issue. Will it boost their learning and prepare them for the workforce or will it lead to digital dependence and cognitive atrophy?

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. My house contains a vaguely defined room—a parlor-like space that was created by a renovation decades ...