In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.

Sylvano Alvarez earned a full scholarship to law school after career in Bay Area tech, now serves Northern Virginia's ...

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside ...

LEGO Education’s CS and AI curriculum is designed to build AI literacy by turning students from passive users into active ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

Social media algorithms are pushing unsolicited pornographic content into children’s feeds, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner. The data was collected prior to the implementation of ...