The web's inventor says companies worked together decades ago to create an open internet. That isn't happening with generative AI. Jon Reed is a senior editor covering artificial intelligence.

As it stands on the modern Internet, your data is no longer your own. Your emails, photos, and posts all live on servers owned by large corporations. Their policies give them access to your data ...

In 1990, the largest internet site in Europe was CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee was a researcher there, and he thought he had a way to help organize information on ...

In 1472, William Caxton's ship arrived in the port of London. It was carrying a strange machine that nobody in England had ever seen before. ‘What is it?’ William Caxton was sure that the ...

Amid all the talk of generative AI tools, agents and autonomous robots at South by Southwest, the inventor of the World Wide ...

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an ...