Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope.

"Google’s interest sends a clear signal: Neutral atom quantum computing has arrived. And while it may not replace superconducting as the leading approach, the technology is primed to be a key player ...

Floating in a warm, nutritious bath, the slices of mouse brain buzzed with electrical activity. Researchers gave them a few zaps, and parts of the hippocampus strengthened their wiring. This type of ...

Increasingly, companies are building humanoid robots that perform impressive athletic feats to mark the field’s progress. Now, Chinese robotics company Unitree says its new "Superman" robot can run 12 ...

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. DeepMind’s Weather AI ...

These lab-grown balls of brain tissue could help researchers study a host of disorders that emerge as the brain ages. Five years is an eternity for brain organoids. Also called mini brains, these ...

It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Considering how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or ...

When the 63-year-old man received a bone marrow transplant from his brother, he got a two-for-one deal. The therapy was meant to tame a life-threatening blood disorder. But it also wiped out all signs ...

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do. Little is as important for the world’s future and our own lives as how this history ...

Physical Intelligence, a Hot Robotics Startup, Says Its New Robot Brain Can Figure Out Tasks It Was Never TaughtConnie Loizos | TechCrunch "Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based ...

The universe may not only be geometry and energy—but also memory. And in that memory, every moment of cosmic history may still be written. For more than a century, physics has been built on two great ...