Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational ...

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Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the ...

A new history by Trevor Jackson argues that the economic system that transformed global living standards depends on endless growth impossible to sustain. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...

Anthropic’s Claude is launching a wild new tool that lets you ask AI on your phone to remotely control your computer to execute tasks. A new feature in Claude Cowork and Claude Code will allow the AI ...

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

Scientists at MIT have discovered that a little-known protein called intelectin-2 plays a powerful double role in defending the gut. The protein strengthens the mucus layer that lines the ...

Plus: Elizabeth Warren wants answers on xAI’s access to military data. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...