In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

In AI research, progress is often equated with size. But a small team at Samsung’s AI lab in Montreal has taken another approach that is proving to show great promise. Their new Tiny Recursive Model ...

The experience at Meta seems to confirm what some of us have long argued. Yielding to those who demand censorship only produces an insatiable appetite for more speech curtailment.

Duolingo CEO and cofounder Luis von Ahn just made a statement on AI tools at his company, saying that he doesn’t “see AI as replacing what our employees do.” This view certainly appears to be a ...

What if machines could not only learn but also teach themselves to become better with each iteration? This isn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie—it’s the reality unfolding in artificial intelligence ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Final Fantasy 6 innovatively discards backtracking, focusing on ...

The government of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele agreed to scale back his ambitious plan to adopt bitcoin as a national currency in exchange for a much-needed $1.4 billion loan by the ...

Jeffrey Epstein was right about Donald Trump. Shortly after Trump first became president in 2017, Epstein wrote to a friend, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers: “I have met some very bad ...

A 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional put the nonprofit world on notice. While limited to admissions based on race, the decisions in a pair ...