Google unveiled Universal Cart, an AI shopping hub spanning Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, alongside updates to its Agent Payments Protocol for autonomous purchases.

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models—or even free ones you can run locally—that might work well enough for some of your ...

Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut. Credit...Mojo Wang Supported by By Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith Reporting from San Francisco When a financial services company recently began using ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

Father Brendan McGuire left Silicon Valley to become a priest. The Valley, it turns out, wasn’t finished with him. Observer Labs He is not, in other words, an outside critic. He is something more ...

VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude ...

SAG-AFTRA applauded the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence policy framework, declaring Thursday that it “strongly supports” the initiative as they believe members “deserve protection.” ...

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 ...

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. A Linux terminal runs the OpenClaw platform. Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had ...