The big picture: Gen Z's internet-driven vocabulary isn't typically decoded by a dictionary — but older relatives may still want to be hip at the kids' table.
New technologies always arrive bearing new vocabularies. Here's a guide to the lingo of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence (AI): A term coined in the 1950s by John McCarthy to describe efforts to develop machines that could reason and solve problems in human-like ways. Now widely applied to any software that can identify patterns in data.
Sam Altman's return to OpenAI as CEO is a win for him, but not a total win — and even now, the game still has more innings.
Why it matters: The company that sparked the generative-AI boom isn't going to collapse in chaos or lose all its employees to competitors, but its future still carries big question marks.
