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A new initiative from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, seeks to account for that shortfall by enlisting researchers in finding ways to conduct high-level mathematics research with an A.I. “co-author.” The goal of the new grant-making program, Exponentiating Mathematics, is to speed up the pace of progress in pure (as opposed to […]

Sam Altman, the chief executive of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, said on Tuesday that he has had productive talks with President Trump about A.I. and credited him with understanding the geopolitical and economic importance of the technology. “I think he really gets it,” Mr. Altman said. He added, “I think he really understands the importance […]

As Americans scramble to respond to rising rates of suicidal behavior among youth, many policymakers have locked in on an alarming metric: the number of hours a day that American children spend glued to a glowing screen. But a study published on Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, which followed more than 4,000 children across […]

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

The New York Times OpenAI aims to create “AI-native universities” with its ChatGPT Edu service. The company’s goals for the service include students having AI assistants, professors providing customized AI study bots, career services offering recruiter chatbots for practice job interviews, and more. California State University is rolling out ChatGPT to students across its 23 […]

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to “radically increase efficiency” in deciding whether to approve new drugs and devices, one of several top priorities laid out in an article published Tuesday in JAMA. Another initiative involves a review of chemicals and other “concerning ingredients” that appear in U.S. food but […]

ChatGPT was released two and a half years ago, and we have been in a public panic ever since. Artificial intelligence can write in a way that passes for human, creating a fear that relying too heavily on machine-generated text will diminish our ability to read and write at a high level. We’ve heard that […]

For four months in 2026, the Chicago restaurant Next will serve a nine-course menu with each course contributed by a different chef. One of them is a 33-year-old woman from Wisconsin who cooked under the pathbreaking modernist Ferran Adrià, the purist sushi master Jiro Ono and the great codifier and systematizer of French haute cuisine, […]

Ardem Patapoutian’s story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino’s at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned […]

The New York Times Aurora Innovation’s driverless truck has racked up more than 1,000 miles on Interstate 45 in Texas after becoming the first to drive on a U.S. highway without a human behind the wheel. Some auto safety experts and veteran truck drivers are concerned about the safety of autonomous trucks, especially given the […]