Online platforms risk becoming ideological echo chambers that undermine meaningful dialogue
There has recently been a shift online from centralized platforms like X (formerly Twitter) to…
The Download: China’s DeepSeek, and useful quantum computing
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
AI’s energy obsession just got a reality check
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories…
Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent
On January 8, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang jolted the stock market by saying that practical…
People are hawking TikTok-loaded phones for thousands on eBay, Facebook
People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay,…
The Download: OpenAI’s agent, and what to expect from robotics
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
How a top Chinese AI model overcame US sanctions
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. The model…
UI-TARS GUI agent model can automate tasks such as finding and booking airline tickets
A team of software engineers, AI specialists and programmers at Tsinghua University, working with TikTok…
People overestimate reliability of AI-assisted language tools: Adding uncertainty phrasing can help
As AI tools like ChatGPT become more mainstream in day-to-day tasks and decision-making processes, the…
This is what might happen if the US withdraws from the WHO
On January 20, his first day in office, US president Donald Trump signed an executive…