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Anthropic added a new feature to Claude that gives the chatbot the capability to create interactive visuals directly in the chat, featuring elements such as charts, diagrams, and more. This latest ...

Influencer app LTK is rolling out a new AI chatbot powered by its creators' content — and OpenAI. Users can get shopping advice from the bot, and discover relevant posts and creators to follow.

Qwen3.5 comes in an open-weight and hosted API version, with the company advertising improvements in performance and costs from previous versions. Qwen3.5 supports new agentic capabilities and is ...

If your AI assistant keeps dropping specifics or talking past the question, you don’t need a new model to get better results. Small changes to better chatbot prompts can clean up a lot of the mess.

Indonesia and Malaysia are the first two countries to ban Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool Grok, after the generative AI essentially flooded the social media platform X with lewd, sexually ...

Geoff’s column hunts for how tech can make your life better — and advocates for you when tech lets you down. Got a question or topic to investigate? Geoffrey.Fowler@washpost.com and geoffreyfowler.88 ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

Meta is working on new supervision controls that will allow parents to cut off their teens' access to AI chatbots on its platforms completely. While the tools can remove teens' ability to engage AI ...

Learn how to implement the Nadam optimizer from scratch in Python. This tutorial walks you through the math behind Nadam, explains how it builds on Adam with Nesterov momentum, and shows you how to ...

Thinking about learning Python? It’s a pretty popular language these days, and for good reason. It’s not super complicated, which is nice if you’re just starting out. We’ve put together a guide that ...