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Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world's fastestChina's Line Shine supercomputer is the most powerful in the world and the first the country has hosted since 2017.
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Computer scientists are rushing to tame AI's voracious appetite for energyOpinion Scientists are exploring new algorithms, hardware and computing methods to lower AI's power demands. Strategic siting of data centers and other steps to increase green energy use are also key.
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AI images are more convincing than ever — infiltrating journals and undermining trust in scienceOpinion Thanks to AI, one of the key pillars of scientific evidence — stunning imagery that often defies belief — is crumbling.
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AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.Opinion AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.
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New chip harnesses quantum computing's biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strengthA new quantum computing chip turns destructive noise into a programmable feature, helping scientists study signal loss and error correction to build more effective systems in the future.
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IBM creates world's first sub-1nm computer chip — cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized spaceIBM's NanoStack architecture has helped scientists cram 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip, delivering 50% better performance and consuming 70% less energy than the current generation.
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'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?Analysis Researchers show how future malware could use AI to make decisions that are traditionally handled by human hackers — but not all experts say we should panic.
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9 of the best technology-centric conspiracy theoriesCountdown From covert government surveillance to wireless signals transmitting viruses, tech-centric conspiracy theories have been propagating wildly in recent years. Most of them are completely unfounded — but not all.
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In a first, scientists translated an entire viral genome so a quantum computer could read and analyze itScientists have uploaded a viral genome to a quantum computer, marking an important step for the future of quantum-enabled advancements in biology.
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