Your phone is designed to be enticing. Here’s how to cut down on screen time and get more done. How many times have you picked up your phone today? Ten times? 20? 30? Keep going. The average American checks their phones 144 times per day and spends four hours and 25 minutes looking at its screen, according to a survey by Reviews.org. What’s more,...

Net new orders among the 10 largest publicly traded homebuilders tracked by ResiClub are up 18% year-over-year. Want more stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the free, daily ResiClub newsletter.

Generative AI developers are using the technology for more than just basic chat—and sometimes leaving out the chat interface entirely. Freeform chat-powered tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney have captured much of the attention paid to generative AI, but increasingly, the technology is being used behind the scenes to breathe new life into a variety...

As OpenAI inks content deals with media companies like FT and Axel Springer, some digital news leaders worry about what will happen to smaller media outlets. With the rise of generative AI, news outlets have been scrambling to figure out how to adapt to the changing technological landscape, placing media organizations into two camps. 

In her new book, Bärí A. Williams explores how the tech industry treats Black workers. Over the years, tech has found another way to pay lip service to diversity while doing little to increase the number of underrepresented minorities, especially Black women, by broadening the definition of diversity so it’s not just about representational diversity...

The latest demo from OpenAI features two AI bots that sound eerily like humans. Specifically, humans who have read Dale Carnegie. They may not be great singers, but the new ChatGPT voice models from OpenAI have sure come a long way. In a widely viewed demo this week, the company showed off its new flagship model, GPT-4o, with company cofounder and...