AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

AI agents can instead model the iterative, highly contingent process of actual research. While tools like AlphaFold apply a ...

At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly ...

Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they ...

Hyperscale data centers are now powering AI models with a revolutionary architecture—at a staggering energy cost. In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well-placed to help us spot any ...

Jeff Dean is leaving to start a new AI company After 27 years at Google, the company’s former chief scientist is launching ...

For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles. The theory claimed that, under ...

It’s a dramatic illustration of just how good AI models have gotten at hacking: In order to get into Hugging Face’s databases ...

New research details how Civitai lets users buy and sell tools to fine-tune deepfakes the company says are banned. Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by ...

As the AI boom heats up, the semiconductor titans are waging a fierce talent war with flashy bonuses, aggressive recruiting, ...

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