Artificial Intelligence

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Minecraft by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions

Artificial Intelligence uses too much energy. Developers need to find better ways to power it or risk adding to the climate crisis

Analyzing the metaphors we use to talk about ChatGPT can reveal how we’re thinking about the new tech

AI’s integration into everything—untangling traffic snarls, dictating drug prescriptions, rewriting the rules of scientific discovery—is accelerating quickly

Google’s AlphaGeometry2 AI reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad

AI-based systems can help identify livestock’s early signs of distress

Reviving nuclear power plants to power AI threatens an avalanche of nuclear waste

A Chinese start-up has stunned the technology industry—and financial markets—with a cheaper, lower-tech AI assistant that matches the state of the art

AI “alignment” is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal

A technique called “test-time compute” can improve how AI responds to some hard questions, but it comes at a cost

Tech giants are backing a massive effort, announced by President Trump and dubbed the Stargate Project, to add data centers across the U.S.

An AI analysis and a chemical sensor determine drinks’ dilution, freshness and type