Google’s new AI model Gemini launched today inside the Bard chatbot. It could go on to advance robotics and other projects, says Demis Hassabis, the AI executive leading the project.

Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.

At Stanford and Google, Fei-Fei Li is leading the development of artificial intelligence—and working to diversify the field.

Simply uploading code won't explain the platform's inner workings—and it could introduce more serious issues.

David Silver says the computer program that taught itself to be a chess grandmaster exhibits “the essence of creativity.”

ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come.

The company is working on a system called Gemini that will draw on techniques that powered AlphaGo to a historic victory over a Go champion in 2016.

The machine learning technique that taught notorious text generator GPT-3 to write can also help robots make sense of spoken commands.

Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta’s Llama 2.

A new generation of AI algorithms can feel like they’re reaching artificial general intelligence—but it’s not clear how to measure that.

A new “red team” will try to anticipate and thwart attacks on machine learning programs.

For the second year in a row, researchers from the developing world have been denied visas to a major AI conference in Canada.

The company built GT Sophy to master the game 'Gran Turismo,' but it may help the development of real self-driving cars.

Startups in Germany, China, Israel, and elsewhere are following the path blazed by GPT-3—with local twists.

New tools that help developers write software also generate similar mistakes.

We’ve built machines that are capable of incredible feats, yet still they have nothing on a baby.

China and South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. But Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.

Microsoft, Google, and China’s Baidu all showed off ChatGPT-inspired technology to reinvent web search this week.

As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.

Researchers monitoring a “firehose” of public tweets found signs of increasing toxicity—before Elon Musk reversed bans on Trump and other divisive figures.

Developing AI is costly and time-consuming. Custom silicon can give companies an edge.

In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.

Former treasury secretary Larry Summers warns that trying to restart the US economy too soon would put countless lives in danger and risk far more economic damage.

As part of a wave of layoffs, the new CEO disbanded a group working to make Twitter’s algorithms more transparent and fair.

As tech campuses became ghost towns, the people who kept them running—cooks, custodians, drivers—faced an existential threat to their livelihoods.

Researchers show how AI programs can be sabotaged by even subtle tweaks to the data used to train them.

Google, Nvidia, and others are training algorithms in the dark arts of designing semiconductors—some of which will be used to run artificial intelligence programs.

Data scientists, coders, and other techies could prove decisive in future conflicts—if Uncle Sam can recruit them.

A research paper that dubs some artificial intelligence models "foundations" is sparking a dispute over the future of the field.

The findings emerged from an unusual contest to identify unfairness in algorithms, similar to hunts for security bugs.

Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.

Investors have got the hots for "generative AI" that can make text and images. But so far, the hype runs ahead of the business results.

Pandemic-induced supply disruptions and competition from China put more pressure on US companies to manufacture semiconductors at home.

The viral image generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.

The Air Force Artificial Intelligence Incubator aims to develop technologies that serve the “public good,” not weapons development.

Google and Facebook are releasing troves of deepfakes to teach algorithms how to detect them. But the human eye will be needed for a long time.

As businesses reopen, social distancing rules will lead to new partitions between workspaces, reminiscent of the fabric-clad dividers of the 1980s.

Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios.

A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn’t tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.

Alphabet's DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A Maryland company used it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation.

Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to President Obama, says good ideas come from everywhere—but Trump has dissuaded tech workers from coming to the US.

Internet giant Baidu has built an empire around search and artificial intelligence. Can it build a smarter car?

Police late Wednesday released a video that shows an Uber robot car running straight into a woman who was walking her bicycle across a highway in Tempe, Ariz.