

Steve Lohr
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A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not an Extinction, for Coders
A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the work...

Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later
Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis...

How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.

DealBook Summit: Technologists on Smarter-Than-Humans Technology
Most members of a DealBook Summit panel described immense benefits from artificial intelligence and saw its risks as manageable.

How High School Graduates Can Improve Their Earnings Potential
New research shows that 73 “launchpad jobs” can help those without a four-year college degree advance and achieve higher pay.

Rethinking ‘Checks and Balances’ for the A.I. Age
A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I. enhances democracy.

How the Google Antitrust Ruling May Influence Tech Competition
Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge’s decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major...

Artificial Intelligence Has a Math Problem
A.I.’s math problem reflects how much the new technology is a break with computing’s past.

Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91
He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.

Pursuit Makes the Case for Their Innovative Job Training Program
Pursuit, a nonprofit that trains low-income workers to become software engineers, is urging New York legislators to pass a new regulatory model for jobs programs.