A chatbot won’t fix your family drama, but it might help you hear what someone’s really trying to say Sign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here Last autumn, I was pacing my ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

As Korea’s stock market races to record highs, the country’s retail investors are responding with humor — and artificial intelligence (AI). This week, social media platforms have been flooded with ...

An open letter signed by architects, DBAs, and engineers argues that closed development, missing AI‑era features, and declining commits demand a foundation-led model that includes Oracle but restores ...

If you are leasing a car, what’s the point of paying thousands of dollars due at lease signing? My contract says tax, title, fees and licensing — but then wouldn’t I have to pay that again at the end ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational functionalism, which treats cognition as something you can fully explain ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming ...

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Politics. Football. And now – AI? Add artificial intelligence to the potential sources of Thanksgiving dinner quarrels this year. Maybe Uncle Larry wants to know if the robots are coming for your job.

Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote ...