We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...

Most people who publish a book have been writing for years and, at the very least, have been lifelong readers. That wasn’t the case for Oliver James. The first-time author just released his first book ...

We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

Hearing that Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda, the founders of the Drinking & Writing Theater, were back in business after the pandemic years and opening a new play this week, I was thrown back nearly ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday signed a bill that will require a cursive handwriting curriculum in all Pennsylvania public schools. “I’m definitely rusty, but I think my penmanship was okay!” Shapiro ...

Google and Khan Academy are integrating Gemini into literacy tools: The partnership starts with Writing Coach and will add a new Reading Coach tool later this year. Writing Coach supports grades 5–12 ...

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a ...

Altman said OpenAI "screwed up" GPT-5.2's writing quality by prioritizing coding and reasoning. He claims the regression as a resource tradeoff, not a permanent direction for the model family. Future ...

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden ...