For all the ideas embedded in "Turing Machine," actor Lee Sang-yun says the play is about a human being. “There’s a great ...

Computer scientist Alan Turing first posed this question in his landmark 1950 paper, though he didn’t use the term artificial ...

The “one big breakthrough” pattern suggests that total citation counts can mislead. A researcher with one highly-cited paper and several uncited ones may have a more impactful trajectory than one with ...

UK forms AI public services team with Meta, Anthropic to enhance public services in transport, defense, and employment support.

Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now he says many tech companies are on the wrong path to ...

Taking effect on Jan. 1, 2026, SB 243 is directed at regulating AI-powered companion chatbots (with limited exceptions) that engage users across multiple interactions, with a multi-pronged approach.

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue, and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

Although they took some time to come to fruition, the roots of modern personal computers trace back to early 20th-century advances in computing theory and technology. One man in particular provided ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...