Speaking with popular AI content creators convinces me that “slop” isn’t just the internet rotting in real time, but the ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

A team of MIT researchers created a speech-to-reality system that enables a robot to build furniture with just a simple ...

Merriam-Webster named slop its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content produced by artificial ...

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This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT Technology Review’s editor at large David Rotman about the true impact of AI on the job market. Welcome back to The ...

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Mental health experts suggest AI-driven environments are causing a sense of detachment and existential boredom by ...

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It’s official: “Six Seven” Just earned the title of Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year. But even as the word is officially added to the cultural lexicon, it has already been quietly removed ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...