To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the heated race between two companies to build a commercial brain-computer interface. Brain-computer interfaces might have inspired works of science ...

Fallout season two kicked off with a bang… Literally, if you’re one of a few unlucky people who cross paths with Mr. House or Hank MacLean. But what is it that’s making people’s heads go bang?Fallout ...

Chances are, unless you're already deep into AI programming, you've never heard of Model Context Protocol (MCP). But, trust me, you will. MCP is rapidly emerging as a foundational standard for the ...

Chetan Jaiswal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

I’m going to go ahead and say it: what happens online doesn’t always necessarily square up with what’s actually going on in real life. Yes, we all know that Elon Musk’s political opinions are ...

A large language model is nothing more than a monumental pile of small numbers. It converts words into numbers, runs those numbers through a numerical pinball game, and turns the resulting numbers ...

Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. It’ll cost about $35,000, and you can teach it to do all kinds of nifty things. If that’s out of your price range, you can sign up for its ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

While Tesla’s group sales fell slightly last year for the first time in a decade, the launch of the updated Model Y Juniper this year has the potential to get the brand back on track. It should follow ...

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More ...