In early May, the Commonwealth Foundation announced the five regional winners for its influential Short Story Prize, which recognizes unpublished short fiction. One of the awardees, a Trinidadian ...

Perplexity introduced Search as Code as a reference architecture for AI-written Python search workflows, following its 2025 real-time Search API. The new approach shifts the pitch from repeatedly ...

Linear attention replaces the unbounded KV cache of softmax attention with a fixed-size recurrent state. This cuts sequence mixing to linear time and decoding to constant memory. The hard part is not ...

Steven Rosenbaum has decided that the real villain behind the bogus quotes in his book is a chatbot. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that The Future of Truth, Rosenbaum’s much-discussed ...

Google quietly updated one of its Google Ads help pages with a clarification that could raise concerns for some advertisers. The updated documentation suggests that search terms shown in reporting for ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

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For as long as wedding vows have existed, there have been those who’ve struggled to write them. The practice asks people to condense their love, appreciation, and commitment to their partner into a ...

Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek "likes" on social media platforms like TikTok. In a question-and-answer session with clergy from ...

It was the stuff of RPF. After more than 15 years of making YouTube videos together, Dan Howell and Phil Lester sat down this past October to share a revelation: They were in a secret, long-term gay ...

Traditional tales like “The Three Little Pigs” can be much more than storytime. Familiar stories with repetitive language are a powerful vehicle for helping children understand how stories work—and ...