AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say, and there’s no ...

Forecasts of explosive AI progress predict that what researchers call recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.  But a new study suggests that it might take a while for us to get there. The ...

Reuel is co-lead of a new research project, called the AI Observatory, that aims to fill in the gap. It’s a public platform that aggregated and analyzed real AI conversations wi ...

Human spaceflight has been racking up new milestones. But we’re still grappling with a fundamental question: Why go in the first place?

AI companion toys for neurodivergent children promise connection and therapy, but can they deliver for the long haul?

As cities reconsider the technology, it’s worth asking how the company’s design choices have shaped the trade-off between ...

The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes. The police-tech giant ...

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was ...

The global gold rush for underground stores of hydrogen fuel continues. But researchers are still sorting out how much of the ...

A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body.

The company, along with others, is pursuing a new paradigm for cramming more transistors on chips—building up. IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the ...

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