Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

In late 2024, Chinese models accounted for one percent of global AI workloads. By the end of 2025, that figure had surged to 30 percent. Alibaba’s Qwen family now boasts over 700 million downloads, ...

By now, you know AI is everywhere. Every boardroom conversation, every company press release and every other presentation you're forced to sit through includes the mind-numbing mention of "artificial ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

Chinese AI company MiniMax has released the weights for MiniMax M2.7, a 229-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that participated in its own development cycle – marking what the company calls ...

As augmented reality, virtual reality and other extended reality technologies become more widely adopted in K–12 classrooms, districts are exploring their potential to increase engagement and support ...

The compression algorithm works by shrinking the data stored by large language models, with Google’s research finding that it can reduce memory usage by at least six times “with zero accuracy loss.” ...

Microsoft's shift to agentic AI, custom silicon, and the M365 E7 suite positions it to absorb SaaS budget consolidation.

The traditional discovery economy—built on the multidecade dominance of search engine results pages (SERPs)—is undergoing a tectonic shift into the answer economy. For digital marketers, visibility is ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

There is abundant proof that email, after over a decade of successful use, is not only the connective tissue of all data-driven marketing but also the revenue-producing heart of digital efforts. In ...