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It was over beers on an autumn evening in Zurich in 2024 that a group of journalists with an independent Swiss research collective began to discuss…

It is the industrial version of what homeowners might do to get through a hurricane. Only in this case, some technology companies are planning to rely…

Credit: Kevin Frayer/GettyChina is pledging to use ‘extraordinary measures’ to support the country’s bid to become a global leader in artificial intelligence, quantum technology and other…

The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the tech industry to once again grapple with the question of how its products are used for…

In a scene that might have come from a dystopian novel, books were being stamped with “Human Authored” logos at this week’s London Book Fair. The Society…

When Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place.…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.AI is everywhere. It’s in your phones, in your Internet searches, in defense…

Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading…

Nvidia, the chipmaker that became the world’s most valuable public company two years ago, was alone worth more than $4.75 trillion as of Thursday morning. Its…

Matthew Ramirez started at Western Governors University as a computer science major in 2025, drawn by the promise of a high-paying, flexible career as a programmer.…