Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human leaning in for a single, deep inhale to gauge whether a cantaloupe is ripe.

In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of ...

As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of ...

Gary Stimson of LabVantage explains how agentic AI and CORTEX support connected laboratory workflows, from UI guidance to autonomous agents.

"We don't have robots that are nearly as good at understanding the physical world as a rat," says Yann LeCun, one of the ...

What do you call an organism with no evolutionary ancestors? SpudCell, apparently ...

Line up the brains of a fish, bird and a mammal, and something unexpected comes up. You do not see three different answers to the problem of making sense of the world. You see one answer, tilted three ...

They would complete assignments at home, ostensibly with an overreliance on AI, but would be unable to perform those skills ...

Discover how AI is reshaping careers and why adaptability, lifelong learning, and human judgment will define the future of work.

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

Esme Lombard thinks that New Haven might be on its way to becoming the next Silicon Valley -- at least for quantum research and tech.  Lombard offered that take Tuesday evening during a public meeting ...

Professor Karan Ahuja is one of 74 outstanding early-career engineers selected for NAE's signature event, designed to facilitate the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and techniques to strengthen U ...