Rebecca Heilweil covered emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and the supply chain. Unemployment in May reached its highest levels since the Great Depression, but companies like Postmates ...

Background checks have become a staple of modern business, being performed, for example, before firms hire employees, before banks allow accounts to be opened, before investors give their money to ...

If asked what the man ate in this scenario, a human would have no problem giving the correct answer—a steak. Yet today’s most advanced artificial intelligence struggles with prompts like this.