—James O'Donnell Digital clones—AI models that replicate a specific person—package together a few technologies that have been around for a while now: ...

Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for each query. In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of ...

The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers ...

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included ...

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 ...

—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company showed off a ...

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk has turned on ...

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after ...

The quest to figure out farming on Mars Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted ...

US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ...