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Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions ...

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You can also use your voice to launch apps, fill out text fields, and do just about everything that was previously only possible with your fingers and thumbs. Of course, the traditional touchscreen ...

Google just announced Gemini Omni, a new AI model that it claims can “create anything from any input,” at its annual I/O developer conference on Tuesday. The company said the model is starting off ...

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!) By The New York Times Books Staff Welcome, dear readers, to our second ...

Allison covers what hot startups are getting up to, and who’s financing them. She is also co-host of the weekly biotech podcast, “The Readout Loud.” You can reach Allison on Signal at AllisonDeAngelis ...

It's the Japanese director's gentle version of a high-concept tech fairy tale. Except that it mostly just sits there. At different points, “Sheep in the Box” is all those movies (and maybe a few more) ...

The filmmaker's 17th feature imagines the world in the near future, at a time when artificial intelligence has come to dominate virtually every aspect of our lives. By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor ...

Who do the dead belong to? This strange but thoughtful question is incredibly on brand for Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda, and he explores it in one of his purest, most dreamlike films to date. Built around ...

“Sheep in the Box,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s movie about androids, artificial intelligence and found family, plays out in exactly the ways you might think a Kore-eda film about those subjects would, and is ...