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 ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined ...

Source: Image by StockSnap from Pixabay. There is an old argument about writing that suddenly feels less old than it should. In fact, I think it's surprisingly relevant. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates ...

Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek "likes" on social media platforms like TikTok. In a question-and-answer session with clergy from ...

Written words can do more than communicate. They can also unlock the writer’s ability to process distress, identify hurtful feelings and take control of personal conflict. Emily Johnston, a writing ...

You have documented how large language models (LLMs) risk hardwiring scientific inequalities into the texts that they help to produce (see, for example, Nature 645, 285; 2025). As the use of LLMs ...

Noting that practical advice for getting published is plentiful for fiction writers, but sparse for nonfiction writers, debut author and Gernert Company VP Habib offers the latter an essential guide ...

AI models follow certain structural rules when generating text. This can make it easier to identify their writing. They tend towards contrasts, for example: "It's not X -- it's Y." The past few years ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...