In context: Roblox is a gaming platform with a massive audience of teens and younger players. Authorities worldwide have criticized the service as a potential grooming ground for predators, but the ...

A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks. A massive outage at content delivery ...

GPT-5.1 sets the chatbot apart from the alternatives on the market. OpenAI / OpenAI GPT-5.1 is the latest update from OpenAI, set to upgrade ChatGPT in a pretty groundbreaking way. While ChatGPT has ...

Hardly anyone can have missed the AI phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Almost every major company has some kind of AI initiative now. Politicians talk about how important it is not to ...

On Sunday, CNBC host Cramer took to X, formerly Twitter, to share his frustration with AI chatbots. He said he asked ChatGPT for data on single-family home prices over the last six years, but each ...

It's been quite a while since I've seen a good communications planning research study so I was struck for a couple or reasons when the team at WPP Media passed along their just-released one conducted ...

AI companies aren't just bombarding social media feeds with 'slop'; they're now making platforms of their own. One leader in this new frontier is Character.AI, a companionship platform where users ...

To help counteract the spread of bots and AI-generated users, X is planning to roll out a new profile display that will include more personal information about the individual user. Starting next week, ...

You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. is a senior editor and author of ...

Fortnite is more than just a battle royale game: It's also a platform that hosts a wide swath of player-created experiences, much like Roblox does. Developer Epic Games encourages fans to make islands ...

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