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Nvidia, which soared to the top of the stock market by selling the computer chips fueling the world’s artificial intelligence boom, has been dealt a tough reality check by a small Chinese company that showed it could do more...

Arthur Winston, 2004 IEEE president, died on 27 December at the age of 94.Winston was an electrical engineering professor at two Boston-area universities: Northeastern and Tufts. He cofounded the latter’s Gordon Institute, a leadership-focused engineering school.Among the students and...

Censored language modelA lurking possibility is that DeepSeek isn’t as good as it seems, with some skepticism already appearing around its price-performance claims. Stacy Rasgon, a senior analyst at Bernstein Research, questioned DeepSeek’s underlying costs.“Did DeepSeek really build OpenAI...

On its face, the claim feels improbable: In addition to being the world’s richest man, the chief executive of multiple companies and a key adviser to President Trump, Elon Musk says he is also a world-class video game player.It...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex relationships. In the ocean, the soil, and your gut, they might battle and eat each other, exchange DNA, compete...

Chris VallanceSenior Technology ReporterGetty ImagesLike Wikipedia, community notes rely on unpaid contributors to correct misinformation.Contributors rate corrective notes under false or misleading posts and, over time, some users earn the ability to write them. According to the platform,...

Dressed in ball gowns, tuxedos and “Make Bitcoin Great Again” baseball caps, a crowd of some of the country’s most powerful cryptocurrency executives gathered a few blocks from the White House for a lavish party three days before President...

In a news conference on Tuesday, President Trump announced the Stargate Project, which he called “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.” With the CEOs of OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank at his side, Trump said that these...

Although fans of A Song of Ice and Fire might still be hankering for the long-delayed next book in the series, bestselling sci-fi/fantasy author George R.R. Martin has instead added a different item to his long list of publications:...