If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, it kicked off an AI boom that hasn't stopped since and showed how powerful ...

Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee on Friday released six pages of records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that show the late financier maintained ties with some of the world’s ...

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom.

The names of jurors in Karen Read’s high-profile retrial have been impounded for at least 10 days, court records show. Judge Beverly J. Cannone issued the order after a Norfolk County jury on ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

A Massachusetts state trooper returned to the witness stand in the murder trial of Karen Read after cross-examination turned tense in his first day of testimony. During questioning by the prosecution, ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

An aimless 30-something’s mission to complete her aspirational teenage to-do list in order to claim her inheritance turns into a sluggish ticking-clock scenario yielding very little reward. Droll Alex ...

Academics have long been accused of jargon-filled writing that is impossible to understand. A recent cautionary tale was that of Ally Louks, a researcher who set off a social media storm with an ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...