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Hundreds of Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse to make the company's artificial intelligence tools available for the Pentagon in classified settings. In an open letter to the ...

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Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid administrative leave amid a renewed investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a letter obtained ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Finding that you can't quite solve Wordle as often as you'd like? It's time to change up your strategy. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of ...