In 2024, Google Chrome expanded its built-in AI initiative by introducing APIs and browser features that enable the local execution of AI models. As part of this shift, Chrome began integrating ...

A venerable IRS program called Free File allows 70% of taxpayers to file their taxes for free, just as the name implies. Only 2% of taxpayers used the service in 2024. That is the finding of a ...

The annual meetings of the Chicago Loop Alliance are no place for truth-telling about the self-evident problems of the Chicago Loop. As Friday’s big gathering at Willis Tower made clear, this is a ...

The agency still offers a Free File program that works with commercial tax software firms. Some companies also offer free tools for certain filers. By Ann Carrns The federal government tested a free, ...

A majority of American teenagers believe that their peers are using artificial intelligence to cheat in school, according to new research, and more than 1 in 10 teens use AI for emotional support or ...

What is the work? Transportation planners with the Maricopa Association of Governments have begun a study to evaluate the safety and necessary improvements to a highly-traveled corridor in the north ...

The Department of Justice on Saturday sent Congress a list of “politically exposed persons” in the millions of files released related to its probes into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The six ...

When Rep. Ro Khanna took to the House floor this week to read aloud the names of six “wealthy, powerful men” whose identities were originally redacted in the Jeffrey Epstein files, it catapulted the ...

Members of Congress sharply criticized the Justice Department over allegations that it was tracking what lawmakers were searching for as they viewed unredacted versions of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 5, 1977 ...

On March 15, 2018, in an email sent to a redacted recipient and featuring the subject line “he was passed away,” Epstein speculates about the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell, ...