In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

Runware, a startup founded by two Romanian entrepreneurs, announced last week that it has secured a USD 50 million Series A ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Google is turning one of its most familiar products into something that sounds far more like a human interpreter than a phrasebook. Instead of spitting out stiff, literal phrases, the latest version ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Temu, one of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce marketplaces, faced a new wave of reported outages as users across ...

One thing that got swiftly brushed over in the whole saga on MAFS UK about Julia-Ruth and Joe is that the secret pair got matching tattoos whilst on their holiday together. Not only did they jet off ...

OpenAI is bringing new transcription and voice-generating AI models to its API that the company claims improve upon its previous releases. For OpenAI, the models fit into its broader “agentic” vision: ...

If you've ever bought a quart of motor oil for your vehicle, you've likely encountered the letters API somewhere on the label. In fairness, there are a lot of abbreviations, symbols and odd number ...