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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

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When senior leaders make decisions you fundamentally oppose, you face a leadership paradox: How do you uphold your principles while executing a call that violates them? Kathryn Landis is an executive ...

With the new Voice Typing Dictation feature, users can now speak naturally and have Speechify’s new Mac app turn that recording into clean text across any app on macOS. Here’s how it works. Apple ...