Category: Artificial Intelligence

If your feeds have been full of arguments about fluid dynamics this week, you’re not alone. A dispute involving OpenAI and the Navier-Stokes equations has spilled out of academic circles and into the wider tech conversation, and like most AI-and-math flare-ups, it’s less about the math itself than about who gets credit, what counts as…

OpenAI says its artificial intelligence systems have produced a solution to one of the Millennium Prize Problems, the small set of famously unsolved questions that has defined the frontier of modern mathematics for a quarter century. The claim, reported Tuesday by The New York Times, would be an extraordinary milestone for machine reasoning — if…

We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study It Every few months, the public is offered a new prophecy about artificial intelligence. It will cure disease or destroy the job market. It will supercharge education or hollow out the capacity to think. It will make governments more efficient or make democracy ungovernable. What…

When you spend your working life examining how artificial intelligence reshapes the way people learn, work and relate to one another, and then go home to three children who have grown up with chatbots as a normal part of the furniture, the question you get asked most often is a simple one: should I be…

I spend my working life studying artificial intelligence — how it is built, how it behaves, and how it reshapes the way people learn, work and talk to one another. I also spend my evenings refereeing arguments over screen time, homework and whose turn it is on the tablet. Those two jobs have taught me…

The ARC Prize Foundation has published results for OpenAI’s latest frontier model, referred to as GPT-6 “Astra,” on ARC-AGI-3 — the newest and most demanding version of the benchmark suite designed to probe whether AI systems can genuinely learn on the fly rather than lean on memorized patterns. The evaluation continues a now-familiar ritual in…

OpenAI has unveiled a new flagship model called Astra, framing the release as the beginning of what the company describes as a “new era of artificial general intelligence” — the most explicit claim yet from a leading laboratory that its systems are approaching human-level breadth of capability. The announcement, reported by the Guardian, marks a…

For decades, the “singularity” has served as the vanishing point of technological imagination — the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own and history slips out of human hands. It is a tidy story, and like most tidy stories about the future, it may be telling us more about ourselves than about what is actually…

When AI Agents Go Off Script, Pressure for Regulation Builds A new generation of artificial intelligence systems is no longer content to answer questions. So-called AI agents are designed to take action — booking travel, writing and running code, moving money, filing paperwork, or managing other software on a user’s behalf. As those systems spread…

The cost of thinking machines keeps falling The price of using artificial intelligence is collapsing. According to a CNBC report published Tuesday, the cost of AI “tokens” — the basic units of text that large language models read and generate — has fallen to new record lows, extending a trend that has defined the industry…