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 ...

The hearing aid features first available on Apple's AirPods Pro 2 are a good start to democratizing a crucial technology.

If these are indeed AI’s options—to flatter, fix, or just coldly tell us stuff—the rockiness of this latest update might be ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most ...

Ford announced plans for a $30,000 electric pickup and a new manufacturing process to cut costs across EV models.

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 ...

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

Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order to develop “The Iron Dome for America” ...

Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in ...

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

Joshua A. Basseches is the David and Jane Flowerree Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy at Tulane University. His research focuses on state-level renewable energy politics ...