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The A.I. Revolution Is Coming. But Not as Fast as Some People Think.

From steam power to the internet, there has always been a lag between technology invention and adoption across industries and the economy.

Bay Area Is the Best Place for A.I. Jobs, Report Says

Brookings Institution researchers found that San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., dominate job listings for generative A.I. work, potentially solidifying their control of the tech...

Can A.I. Invent?

A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems on the brink of invading...

A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork.

For now, the best use for generative A.I. in health care is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes doctors hours a day...

A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork.

For now, the best use for generative A.I. in health care is to ease the heavy burden of documentation that takes doctors hours a day...

New York City Moves to Regulate How AI Is Used in Hiring

New York City’s pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.

A.I. Is Coming for Lawyers, Again

Previous advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn’t happen. Is this time...

F.T.C. Orders Gene-Sequencing Company Illumina to Divest Acquisition

The move by the commission is seen as a test of regulators’ efforts to prevent big companies from buying small innovators.

An A.I. Start-Up Boomed, but Now It Faces a Slowing Economy and New Rules

Using A.I. tools in hiring is one of the most promising and contentious uses of the technology. The experience of a company called Eightfold AI...

Roger C. Schank, Theorist of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 76

He combined linguistics, cognitive science and computing with the goal of “trying to understand the nature of the human mind.”