
Robot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millennia
A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives

Robot libraries filled with tiny glass ‘books’ could store data for millennia
A Microsoft Research study suggests glass blocks etched with lasers could provide enduring data archives

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives


Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.

How Logical Are You? Test Your Skills With These Problems from the New International Logic Olympiad
In only its second year, the International Logic Olympiad is already booming as logic becomes more and more crucial in our ever changing world

New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation
Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time

Math Enthusiasts Unite to Have Rover Calculate Pi on the Moon
Later this year a tiny rover will carry out an unusual lunar task

Could AI Really Kill Off Humans?
Many people believe AI will one day cause human extinction. A little math tells us it wouldn’t be that easy

Future Paleontologists Will Understand Modern Humans through Our ‘Technofossils’
Discarded authors Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz, observers of the geological past, look into the future

Quantum Confusion Keeps Coming with Qubits
Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

What the End of U.S. Net Neutrality Means
A federal court’s decision deals a legal blow to the open Internet

The math mystery that connects Sudoku, flight schedules and protein folding
Thousands of notoriously difficult problems in computer science are actually the same problem in disguise

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Major Breakthrough in Error Correction
Google’s new chip, Willow, has achieved the exponential suppression of errors. The advance is substantial, but Willow remains far from delivering on any practical applications