In June 2022, Global Witness and Foxglove submitted 20 test advertisements to Facebook ahead of Kenya's national elections. The ads contained explicit hate speech drawn from real-life examples, ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Alan Turing's radical insight was that any mechanical thought process could be stripped down to a few symbolic operations on a strip of tape. This video unpacks how that elegant simplification became ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

Intuitive Machines, a space technology, infrastructure and services company, has secured a $180.4 million contract from NASA to deliver science and technology payloads to the lunar South Pole region.

The Steam Machine is back from the dead. Not as a Valve-supported program for manufacturers to create living room PCs, but instead as a home console sibling to the Steam Deck. Valve introduced its ...

War Machine premieres Friday, March 6 on Netflix. Not to be confused with Netflix's 2017 Brad Pitt war satire of the same name, this War Machine stars Reacher's mammoth Alan Ritchson. He's a nearly ...

A new chapter in autonomous warfare unfolded in the rugged terrain of Central California this week as Scout AI Inc. pulled the curtain back on "Fury," a foundation model designed to bridge the gap ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

Long Island Rail Road riders who want to hear the hole puncher of a train conductor have new options for physical tickets. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has installed new ticket vending ...