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Did our AI summary help? Anthropic is rolling out a limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for its AI chatbot Claude when users access the service during off-peak hours. The offer runs from ...

Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider. By Brian X. Chen and Teddy ...

Anthropic’s Claude has achieved a record-breaking one million daily signups, surpassing ChatGPT in daily U.S. downloads and reaching the top of the App Store and Google Play charts. This surge follows ...

After buying Twitter, Elon Musk rebuilt it to his own specifications and preferences. This resulted in an environment we may gently call friendlier to the discussion and promotion of right-wing ...

President Donald Trump signed the annual defense authorization bill into law Dec. 18, confirming a 3.8% raise in military basic pay. Congress approved the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, or ...

OpenAI introduced AI video generation app Sora on Tuesday. The app requires an invite code to gain access. Sora is only available in the U.S. and Canada for iPhone users. OpenAI's new artificial ...

There are more than 1.5 million payments to go. Those first payments went to senior citizens and those who receive disability payments from Social Security and completed the new PAS-1 application.

Users said they also appreciate the ability to get summaries of complicated topics and to avoid having to click on a lot of links. Three in 10 people surveyed said they trust ChatGPT over other search ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said its Grok chatbot had also undergone a code update that caused it to share antisemitic messages this week. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco ...

Have you heard? Windows 10 will stop getting updates in October as it finally goes out of service… except it won’t, because Microsoft relented and decided to give everyone an extra year of coverage.

TL;DR: Microsoft updated its Windows user statistics from over one billion to 1.4 billion monthly active devices after reports highlighted a 400 million user decline in three years. The lack of clear ...