On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...

I have spent too much time crafting the perfect AI prompt. Here's everything I've learned reviewing AI image generators. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including ...

Cutting corners: AI generated writing has a reputation problem. Academia treats it as a shortcut at best and a credibility killer at worst. Accuracy and originality are only part of the issue; the ...

Traffic from large language models (LLMs) doesn’t convert significantly better than traditional organic search, according to new research from digital marketing agency Amsive. What they found. Across ...

The CDC is scaling back its FoodNet program, cutting active monitoring of six foodborne illnesses including listeria, shigella and vibrio, while continuing to track only salmonella and E. coli. Health ...

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their true proportions, ...

A solo creator launched a daily riddle game, The Sphinx Riddle, without writing a single line of code. AI agents handled core development tasks, from back-end logic to UX tweaks. TikTok carousel ads ...

Cover letters can be one of the most challenging parts of applying to a job. They're more like writing an essay than a concise list of bullets outlining your achievements, as in your resume. Still, 89 ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband and I have been married for more than 25 years and have had ...