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Quantum computing wielded to create extremely rare material critical to nuclear fusionNuclear fusion inches closer after scientists combine supercomputing, AI and quantum computing to blueprint a way to create more tritium.
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Are CAPTCHAs obsolete in the age of AI?Life's Little Mysteries How are CAPTCHAs being threatened by AI?
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Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacityResearchers reveal that we waste a huge amount of energy on redundant bitcoin mining operations — where different miners try to grab the same bitcoin.
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Scientists figured out how to shrink huge ultrafast lasers so they fit on a tiny chip — the 'holy grail' of the fieldScientists have managed to get ultrafast lasers running on tiny chips, paving the way for miniature-but-powerful diagnostic devices.
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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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