My 5-year-old nephew once confidently told me that all dinosaurs were green because his three dinosaur toys were green. So I showed him a nature documentary, Walking with Dinosaurs, and suddenly, ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

As AI systems have advanced rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) at the center, every tech executive has experienced their limits—when AI systems struggle with complex problem-solving, produce ...

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation's founding. Chief among them is the "pick one" plurality voting ...

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OpenAI has launched FrontierScience, a new benchmark to assess expert-level AI scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry ...

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Dec. 29, 2025 Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans. These animals weren’t dogs, but true wolves that ate the same ...

Controlled studies capture only a fraction of the effects of artificial intelligence. Economists should work with social scientists to find innovative ways to fully grasp this fast-moving field.