Technology

On our 2025 Best Nonfiction of the Year list, Karen Hao’s investigation of artificial intelligence reveals how the AI future is still in our hands

Space-based computing offers easy access to solar power but presents its own environmental challenges

These miniature displays can be the size of your pupil, with as many pixels as you have photoreceptors—opening the way to improved virtual reality

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

A new sound-based system could squelch small fires before they grow into home-destroying blazes

Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ever snowball into true superintelligence

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in future elections

Texas-based firm Ocean Infinity will send swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles into the southern Indian Ocean in a high-risk attempt to locate this missing jet

The company behind TikTok is rolling out a smartphone AI assistant that behaves less like an app and more like a secretary

Combining newer neural networks with older AI systems could be the secret to building an AI to match or surpass human intelligence

A new federal initiative aims to accelerate scientific discovery by uniting artificial intelligence with large federal datasets

As AI slips into kitchens, conversations and memories, Thanksgiving has become a test of how much we’re willing to outsource