California’s new AI transparency law took effect this week, but it defines “transparency” in a way that may not help many consumers. The law, which passed in 2024, sets up a robust transparency ...

Nathan Smith and Catherine Alonzo are right that the "tyranny of urgency" is real. As someone who spent years consulting on homelessness — serving as a policy advisor and consultant with homeless ...

This week's Five Burning Questions looks at the initial returns for the rap superstar's feature-less latest LP. Another Future album, another No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Like 11 previous sets released ...

Nine-year-old Eva was watching an episode of the children’s show Horrible Histories about the stone age recently when a question popped into her head. The cave men were speaking a broken form of ...

If there’s one thing Future knows how to do, it’s move some records. The rapper has undoubtedly kept his foot on the gas over the past decade and a half, delivering not only heat but commercially ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

A new technique has let the company probe deeper than ever into the weird workings of an LLM. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s ...

It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the internet in the ...