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As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

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In the 18 months since Cisco Systems Inc. finalized its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk Inc., the combined firms have focused on weaving Splunk’s machine data analytics technology with Cisco’s ...

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) rolled out a suite of Splunk-powered offerings—including new Enterprise Security editions, agentic artificial intelligence observability tools, and the Cisco Data Fabric—to ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...