What happens when artificial intelligence leaves the office, the laboratory and the computer screen—and enters a neighbourhood bar? In Beijing’s Zhongguancun technology district, the answer is A...
Russia is accelerating work on Rassvet, a low-Earth-orbit satellite network that could eventually give its military something it has lacked throughout much of the Ukraine war: resilient, high-speed co...
For decades, the tokamak dominated the global race to achieve nuclear fusion. Now, a far more complex machine—the stellarator—is attracting fresh investment and scientific attention. At the centre of ...
Artificial intelligence promises medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries and unprecedented economic growth. But according to AI safety advocate Tristan Harris, humanity may be focusing too heavi...
Anthropic is adding an invisible watermark to text generated by future Claude models, creating a new way to estimate whether Claude was involved in producing or processing a piece of writing. The syst...
Artificial intelligence may not simply replace routine jobs. Its biggest disruption could hit highly skilled, highly paid professionals who once believed their expertise made them indispensable. That ...
The biggest risk from AI agents may not always be a single system going rogue. It could be what happens when thousands of autonomous agents begin interacting with one another. New research from Anthro...
What if the next generation of computers does not rely entirely on silicon chips? What if part of the machine is alive? That question is moving from science fiction towards reality through the emergin...
Senator Bernie Sanders has called on the world’s leading AI companies to pause the development of increasingly powerful artificial intelligence, arguing that recent incidents show the technology...
South Korea has unveiled an ambitious long-term technology strategy called the “Seven Major SEED” initiative, aiming to build new engines of economic growth beyond its traditional strengths in semicon...