AI inverts many constraints that shapes human thought and creates meaning through effort. When thinking becomes frictionless ...

Last summer, a team of researchers reported using a brain-computer interface to detect words people with paralysis imagined saying, even without them physically attempting to speak.

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

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In modern physics, gravity is no longer understood as a force pulling objects together. It is the bending of spacetime itself ...

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Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

A couple of weeks after Merriam-Webster named “slop” as its word of the year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighed in on what to expect from AI in 2026. In his classic, intellectual style, Nadella ...

In America, the idea of at-will employment is so common it feels natural, inevitable, even necessary. Employees can leave at any time, and employers can terminate them without cause or notice. It is ...

AI Architects named Time's 2025 person of the year. AI poses potential lifestyle benefits and substantial ethical and job disruptions. Governments and regulators struggle to keep pace with rapid AI ...

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