More than two in five would feel confident booking a holiday through AI. But with this sort of technology, what you get out of it will depend greatly on what you put in.

How often do you check where your brand appears in AI-generated answers, not just in classic blue links? As search experiences shift to AI Overviews, chat-style engines, and instant summaries, brands ...

Abstract: Query-by-example spoken term detection (QbE-STD) refers to the search for an audio query in a repository of audio utterances. A common approach for QbE-STD involves computing a matching ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I am a 23-year-old asexual woman and am comfortable with my life. The ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I am a man and every time I try to introduce a new partner to what I ...

Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 through July 2025, when it ...

Abstract: As database query processing techniques are being used to handle diverse workloads, a key emerging challenge is how to efficiently handle multi-way join queries containing multiple ...

What would it be like to chat with health records the way one could with ChatGPT? Initially posed by a medical student, this question sparked the development of ChatEHR at Stanford Health Care. Now in ...