Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Since the advent of computer software capable of writing essays, I have noticed a sharp uptick in the technical quality of my ...

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort Summer ...

As some universities experiment with using artificial intelligence tools to screen applications, Duke currently has no plans to do so, according to Kathy Phillips, interim dean of undergraduate ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

When you unlock a phone, step into view of a security camera or drive past a license plate reader at night, beams of infrared light – invisible to the naked eye — shine onto the unique contours of ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former Xinjiang government engineer Nureli Abliz ...

Former Xinjiang government engineer Nureli Abliz, who saw firsthand how surveillance technology flagged thousands of people in China for detention, even when they had committed no crime, is ...

Information technology, or IT, is pretty much everywhere these days. It’s the stuff that makes our computers, phones, and all those other gadgets work, and it connects us to pretty much everything.

The latest commodity coveted by the AI industry is computer memory, and the sector is signing deals directly with manufacturers for billions of dollars worth of chips – the very same chips that ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store. E arlier this year Ohio State University announced an AI Fluency program, ...