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When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

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Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...

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 ...

With the new Voice Typing Dictation feature, users can now speak naturally and have Speechify’s new Mac app turn that recording into clean text across any app on macOS. Here’s how it works. Apple ...

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The Trump administration said in court filings Monday that it would use contingency funds to provide partial SNAP benefits in November after a judge on Friday ordered the Department of Agriculture to ...