David Plotz talks with Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales about his new book The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last, and how purpose, transparency, and assuming good faith ...

California has taken a big step toward regulating AI. SB 243 — a bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots in order to protect minors and vulnerable users — passed both the State Assembly and ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 1960 Bill Wilson, the co-founder of ...

Federal regulators have finalized safety standards for two dangerous products that many advocates say should never have been on the market in the first place. The CPSC also announced it is taking ...

Fails to estimate the selectivity of LIKE (cardinality becomes unknown). Lacks a simple heuristic to enforce join order sanity (e.g., "filtered tables are never larger than their original size"), ...

The best CRM article on Page 1 might lose to a single paragraph buried on Page 3. That’s how AI search works now, and it’s why traditional SEO strategies are failing businesses that should be winning.

Abstract: Route scheduling for automatic optical inspection (AOI) of printed circuit boards (PCBs) impacts the productivity of surface mount production lines. Current state-of-the-art mathematical ...

The big names in artificial intelligence—leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others—still confidently predict that AI attaining human-level smarts is right around the corner. But the naysayers ...

Local search intent is defined as the goal a searcher has when they type a query into a search engine when seeking a resource in a specific geographic location. The local searcher could be looking for ...