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November 19, 20254 min readEach Time AI Gets Smarter, We Change the Definition of IntelligenceAs AI systems exceed one benchmark after another, our standards for “humanlike…

No one could accuse Demis Hassabis of dreaming small.In 2016, the company he co-founded, DeepMind, shocked the world when an artificial intelligence model it created beat…

October 28, 20252 min readThis New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry RuleThe noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjectureBy Emma R. Hasson edited…

Where were you when AI discovered a potential new treatment for cancer? I was at my desk, writing this story.The news, announced by Google this week,…

The next leader of Japan’s ruling party will either be the country’s first female prime minister or its youngest leader since the war. But the significance…

The iPhone Air’s thin design might be eye catching, and the amount of engineering that went into miniaturizing its logic board is impressive. But according to…

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper at the center of the rebuilt World…

Wong says Israeli strikes on Qatar ‘the wrong thing to do’The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said she hopes Israel’s strikes on Qatar will not make…

They may be tiny, but microplastics pose an enormous threat to our world. However, one new study has found a potential breakthrough method for removing them…

September 2, 20253 min readNew ‘Glass Straw’ Fibers Could Speed Up the InternetA cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut…