‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots

It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they’re not without ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Chatbots are far more predictable in their responses than you might expect. That's fine for research or coding, but it's a ...

Did ChatGPT give you a perfect answer? Use this prompt to find out why

I’ve written before about how to ask ChatGPT to improve a so-so prompt. But what about those times with ChatGPT, Claude, or ...
Psychology Today

Very Awkward: AI Prompt Slips in the Age of 'Chatfishing'

People are increasing "chatfishing," using AI apps to generate texts to their romantic interests. Sometimes they'll slip up ...

I tried DoorDash's new AI search. As a home cook, this feature won me over.

DoorDash's AI tool "Ask DoorDash" aims to simplify grocery shopping by allowing users to order ingredients from recipes.
Yahoo! Sports

ASK IRA: Does cap math equate to successful math when it comes to a Heat pitch for Giannis?

Q: Giannis Antetokounmpo is scheduled to make over $58 million next season. In looking over the Heat roster, it’s not clear how the Heat will come close to matching his salary with players they would ...
MarketWatch

‘How much money do you make?’ Since you can’t ask your date that, ask this instead.

Talking about money can be intimidating — especially on a first date. Yet ignoring the balance sheet can be a mistake: 78% of Americans now consider certain types of debt to be a deal-breaker when ...
Scientific American

The million-dollar math problem hardly anyone is trying to solve

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...
InfoWorld

Python and WebAssembly? Here’s how to make it work

Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries ’ Python’s a “batteries included” language, but some of those batteries have been dead for a while. Python 3.13 ripped ‘em out and sent ’em sailing. But what to ...
Wall Street Journal

Five Questions to Help You Make Better Financial Decisions

So you got a raise. Should you put the money in your 401(k)? Or would you be better off paying down your credit-card balance, prepaying your mortgage or doing some of each? Most people juggle multiple ...
TheServerSide

OpenAPI, Swagger and Python

The OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger suite of tools built around it, make it incredibly easy for Python developers to create, document and manually test the RESTful APIs they create. Regardless ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...