Michael Ekstrand News Today

Artificial intelligence tools like chatGPT are more popular now than ever, so one of our reporters experimented with a simple query, then asked information scientists to explain what happened.

Pandemic teaching pushed many professors to be more flexible about deadlines. Our colleague reports on how that’s shaking out now.

The Tesla founder wants to release Twitter’s code to the public, but that’s easier said than done and will have some negative side effects.

In September, Timnit Gebru, then co-leader of the ethical AI team at Google, sent a private message on Twitter to Emily Bender, a computational linguistics professor at the University of

The fallout over Google’s handling of its AI ethics research team continues as the ACM Conference for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) has suspended the company’s sponsorship.