An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

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Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...

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Generate Capital PBC, an investment firm that has raised more than $14 billion since 2014 to bankroll largely US-based sustainable projects, has cut staff as the withdrawal of US policy support upends ...

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

A ruling on a dispute over shortening “groceries” to “grosh.” Sarah writes: My husband shortens words. Groceries become “grosh,” uterus is “utes,” the Spanish word for sandals (chanclas) is “chanks.” ...

With powerful video generation tools now in the hands of more people than ever, let's take a look at how they work. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...