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The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

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Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is under increasing pressure to expand abroad and play a security role for the island. Those ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is ...

President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles ...

Neural networks, from GPT-4 to Stable Diffusion, are built by wiring together perceptrons, which are highly simplified ...

As “general intelligence” remains out of reach, OpenAI is leaning more on application-specific pitches. Health advice is its ...

They’re turning their backs on a technology thought to have saved millions of lives—with the potential to save many more.

It’s the first such models it’s launched in over five years, as pressure in the US grows to respond to China’s dominance in ...

Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges ...