Technology

Companies are experimenting with deep-sea tech to produce cheaper fresh water

An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving long-standing counterexamples and hinting at tools for forecasting stock crashes, diseases and climate disasters

Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs

Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity

Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price

A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness.

The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results

Hulk Hogan, a larger-than-life wrestler known for his showmanship, succumbed to cardiac arrest after a career marked by digital hoaxes and a landmark battle against online exploitation

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution

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.

A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen

Discover why some puzzles stump supersmart AIs but are easy for humans, what this reveals about the quest for true artificial general intelligence—and why video games are the next frontier