This concept isn’t new—in fact, it is the essence of representational state transfer (REST). Instead of converting to a ...

In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.

Google Chat gets a new web address that is claimed to load faster and offer a more seamless experience. This does not change the Chat user interface, and bookmarks and links to the old URL will still ...

I saw someone on Threads the other day say, basically, “I know GChat is technically still a thing, but does anyone actually use it?” Google sure hopes you do — and it’s turning it into something much ...

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Mr. Witt is the author of “The Thinking Machine,” a history of the A.I. company Nvidia. He lives in Los Angeles. Dec. 20, 2025 When OpenAI released the pioneering artificial intelligence chatbot ...