In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the trannoscript.

Google Chrome's new platform for extensions, Manifest V3, threatens to limit the functionality of ad blockers. Firefox has found a way around this problem. Read how.

A new report from The Register today claims that Google is “paying Apple a portion of search revenue” that comes...

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Microsoft said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence to 5 questions per session and 50 questions per day.

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Since 2018, Babel has been doing a funding experiment: can full time work on Babel be sustained? We've learned the answer might be no.

I wanted to convert some .webp images to .png on my Mac. I asked ChatGPT:

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Google and Microsoft think chatbots that can converse like humans are the future of web search. But the human workers who make sure they don't screw up are treated as disposable.

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Chatbots like Bing are software — not sentient.

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