Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The company had clashed with the military over how officials wanted to use its cutting-edge A.I. model. The order could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work. By Julian E. Barnes ...

The tiniest quirks in our speech can change how we’re perceived. But, um, filler words aren’t the villains they’re made out to be. They’re, you know, working behind the scenes. “We group them all ...

The company's chief safety officer testified before lawmakers on Wednesday, Feb. 4, less than two weeks after a child was hit by a Waymo vehicle Smith Collection/Gado/Getty An executive at Waymo has ...

AI can dream up your adventure, but it’s connecting to the operators on the ground who actually make it real. That’s the challenge Roamio is taking on. Africa-based travel tech company Tripesa has ...

Apple's iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max have been available to buy since September, and a fair few will have been gifted over the holidays. If you're the proud owner of ...

The Old Peace introduces a new layer to the complicated cake that is modding in Warframe, adding Operator Mods that can be used to increase the power of your Operator, Amp, and newly available Tauron ...

The next 12–24 months will reward operators who act on trends early, not those who wait for certainty. We published our annual list of Megatrends this week, and the goal wasn’t (just) to spark debate.

School districts across the country are rolling out AI policies to guide how teachers, staff, and students use the technology in response to growing interest and concern about its benefits and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have tracked data centers’ growing water footprint in California. He ...