In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

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Illustration taken in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on January 22, 2026, shows the logo of US social news aggregations Reddit on a smartphone screen and Reddit logo on a laptop screen. Kirill ...

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AI skills became one of the fastest-growing freelance categories in 2025, with Upwork reporting a 109% increase in demand, and AI freelancers earning 40% more than non-AI peers on the same platform.

Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxes with bugs that should’ve died years ago — the same old ...

There appears to be a recent epidemic of users hijacking companies’ AI-powered customer service bots to turn them into generic AI assistants. The goal is to get the branded bots to do their bidding, ...

Welcome to Open Tab, a weekly roundup of news, gossip, and stories that have stayed open in my tabs all week. Last time we covered the ongoing Noma meltdown. Also this week, Blank Street is opening ...

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In distributed systems architecture, the synchronization gap between external HTTP APIs and relational database targets represents a persistent engineering challenge—particularly when API responses ...