Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
The new legislative maps reflect a near split between Republican- and Democratic-leaning districts. For more than a decade, earlier maps had helped Republicans hold power.
Students from Colby College helped harvest ice from a pond for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at a synagogue in Waterville.
Thales, a Greek philosopher 2,600 years ago, is celebrated for predicting a famous solar eclipse and founding what came to be known as science.
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
Beijing’s economic policies threaten American workers, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told Vice Premier He Lifeng in the southern city of Guangzhou.
After hours, the New York Botanical Garden becomes the lushest bar in town.
Jorge Glas, the former vice president, had taken refuge at the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador’s capital. Mexico’s president called his arrest a violation of international law.
It is usually an afterthought in politics, but the power of food was made clear this week.
The charity food group World Central Kitchen suspended its relief efforts after seven of its workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
The Israeli airstrike this week in Damascus that killed seven Iranian commanders was an unusually harsh blow, and officials say Iran is determined to respond, raising fears of a war.
An earthquake struck the Northeast on Friday, rippling from Philadelphia to Boston.
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia made a ruling that opens the door for a renewed investigation into the National Association of Realtors.
The all-Black Tennessee A&I basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but were never invited to the White House. That changed on Friday.
A government economist had regular contact with “super users” in finance, records show, at a time when such information keenly interests investors.
Also, Israel disciplined officers for aid worker killings. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
The president has put Israel’s leader “on probation,” as a veteran diplomat put it. The threat is not idle, aides said, but he wants to force a course correction rather than follow through.
People can experience dizziness, anxiety and even “phantom” aftershocks following a quake.