artificial intelligence

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The ...

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity ...

Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the ...

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost ...

Google quantum exec says tech is ‘5 years out from a real breakout’
A handout picture from October 2019 shows Sundar Pichai with one of Google’s Quantum Computers in the Santa Barbara lab, ...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases
Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are ...

Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI
In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but ...

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself
Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant ...

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI
China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. ...