5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (214+ words) Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond what even many experts expected would be the case just a few years ago. They were also increasingly…...

11+ hour, 48+ min ago  (815+ words) 2025 was unquestionably the year of AI. Big Tech shelled out roughly $400 billion on capex, a spending spree so extensive that some economists believe it staved off an overall recession. Nvidia became the first $4 trillion company. And AI content became inescapable,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1044+ words) As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech invest billions in developing state-of-the-art large language models, a small group of elite AI researchers is working on what they say is the next big thing. Computer scientists like Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (792+ words) AlphaFold, the artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, has just turned five. Over the past few years, we've periodically reported on its successes; last year, it won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. To understand what the next five years…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (640+ words) In 2026, we will see the beginning of precision medical forecasting. Just as there have been remarkable advances in weather forecasting with the use of large language models, so will there be for determining an individual's risk of the major age-related…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (908+ words) The biggest developments in AI in 2025 In case you missed it, 2025 was a big year for AI. It became an economic force, propping up the stock market, and a geopolitical pawn, redrawing the frontlines of Great Power competition. It had…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (100+ words) YouTube's janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (301+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Air Force tasked Dantzig with figuring out new ways to solve optimization problems such as these. In response, he invented the simplex method, an algorithm that drew on some…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (299+ words) YouTube has put an end to two channels known for utilizing artificial intelligence to create and circulate fake movie trailers. The mega video platform confirmed Thursday that it had shut down channels belonging to Screen Culture and KH Studio, saying…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (672+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Recursion can occur at the beginning or end of a sentence, but the form that is most challenging to master, called center embedding, takes place in the middle'for instance, going…...