Category: AI

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why. People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time,…

The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents. This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…

Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel. Low-angle view of a soccer player kicking a ball mid-air against a bright blue sky, with grass flying from their cleats……

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?. When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his…

How much hydrogen awaits us underground?. In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient…

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work. Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency…

The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”. This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…

Job titles of the future: Space travel agent. Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild travel dreams into reality. Over two decades as co-owner of the luxury lifestyle firm Roman &…

This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood. In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office. A…

Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba. Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a…