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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 ...

China's ByteDance releases new AI model Doubao 2.0 ByteDance's release anticipates DeepSeek's unveiling of new product Doubao most-used AI chatbot app in China but facing pressure from Alibaba's Qwen ...

Learn how to simulate a sliding bead on a tilting wire using Python! Step-by-step tutorial for physics simulations and numerical methods. 🖥️📐 #PythonPhysics #PhysicsSimulation #SlidingBead ...

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 ...

Learn how gradient descent really works by building it step by step in Python. No libraries, no shortcuts—just pure math and code made simple. Who was Saleh Mohammadi? Iran teen wrestling champion ...

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 ...

It shouldn’t take tragedy to make technology companies act responsibly. Yet that’s what it took for Character.AI, a fast-growing and popular artificial intelligence chatbot company to finally ban ...