AI parenting book Raising AI hits paperback from MIT Press as Trump signs a new AI executive order. Author De Kai, who built ...

The Cold War By John Lewis Gaddis. Penguin; 352 pages; $19 and £14.99. This concise history by John Lewis Gaddis, often ...

Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...

David Bamman studies culture at a scale few humans ever could. An associate professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, Bamman uses computational methods to analyze books, films and music, ...

Quantum computing could lead to revolutions in cryptography, materials design and telecommunications. But fulfilling those promises could be many years away ...

While the billion-dollar question is about when quantum computing will become commercially viable, one of the problems being tackled at the moment is how to make the ...

What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this has proven to be more of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) shows promise in revolutionizing mental healthcare, offering the potential for early detection of disorders, personalized treatments, and AI-driven virtual therapists ...

There is an increasing concern about the influence algorithms exert in modern societies and the potential threats they pose to democracy. Some algorithms are considered as of high risk, as they have ...