Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

Roman Yampolskiy keeps a folder on his computer called “Insane.” It has about a thousand emails from people who are, as he puts it, certifiably not well. Some tell him aliens instructed them to ...

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

New research shows that AI language models can develop a mathematical “understanding” that differentiates between events that ...

Zapier reports that while AI computer agents like Claude and ChatGPT can now control computers, safety concerns persist.

Quantum computers stand to revolutionize research by helping investigators solve certain problems exponentially faster than with conventional computers. Current quantum computers encounter a challenge ...

Most of what AI chatbots know about the world comes from devouring massive amounts of text from the internet—with all its ...

Do AI chatbots understand reality? Researchers used "AI neuroscience" to prove that language models develop internal world models that mirror human intuition.

More employers are monitoring what workers do on company devices, and firms such as Meta are using employee data to help ...

Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their ...

OpenAI just announced that ChatGPT is getting a model upgrade to GPT-5.5. The company says the model will bring ...

Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t ...