Inside Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, employees' everyday clicks, shortcuts and screen habits are now part of how the company trains its artificial intelligence systems.

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build ...

Much has been made about the idea that workers are effectively training their own replacements when they work with AI tools, though most employers won’t directly admit to it. Meta has apparently ...

The Shortcuts app on iPhones has never really felt easy to use, and that might be putting it mildly. For something so powerful, it often feels clunky and outdated, almost like it hasn’t kept up with ...

JPMorgan is piloting a system that cross-checks junior bankers’ self-reported hours with data from keystrokes, video calls and meetings. The bank will send junior investment bankers weekly summaries ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent. Companies invested heavily in autonomous systems that could handle tasks without human intervention, only for agents to end up simulating the people ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

The simulation hypothesis — the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer — has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...