How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate times we live in, it is the question driving an artificial-intelligence tool called Cluely.

Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work. By Cade Metz and Dylan Freedman Cade Metz reported from San Francisco and ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says he began using computer systems to support decision-making more than 35 years ago and ...