At MAI (Microsoft AI), we don’t just build AI tools, we care about how real people interact with them. So as 2025 wraps up, we’ve gone headfirst into a mountain of de-identified data, searching for ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

For years, teachers have been bashing their heads against the wall as students outsource their homework to large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. But as students of all ages grow to depend ...

What if you woke up tomorrow to find your most trusted AI assistant suddenly limited in how much it could help you? For a small but significant group of users—just 5%—this scenario is now a reality.

I was talking to a friend about how the battery life on a Google Pixel 9 Pro was degrading slowly over time. Normally, my phone lasts all day, but by mid-evening, I was having to recharge. That’s when ...

In a recent survey from the Digital Education Council, a global alliance of universities and industry representatives focused on education innovation, the majority of students (86%) said they use ...

It's normal for CPU usage to spike on your Windows computer when you're gaming or running resource-intensive programs. However, if you notice this happening even during basic tasks like browsing the ...

California residents are using about 8 fewer gallons of water per day than they did during the last drought emergency, according to newly released state data. Between April 2023 and last April, urban ...

The government said it would phase out its purchases of single-use plastics, a significant step because it is the biggest buyer of consumer goods in the world. By Hiroko Tabuchi Calling plastic ...

A flurry of school districts across the country are tightening cellphone restrictions, because they believe students’ misuse of the devices has negatively affected their behavior and ability to learn.