AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they might be onto something. [...]

The Cure

Every day, millions confide in AI, exposing their most intimate problems and hoping it will fix them. This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier. [...]

Penalty Shootouts: Is the Team That Kicks First More Likely to Win?

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first. [...]

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

How Mexican World Cup Stadiums Achieved FIFA’s Environmental Certifications

Venues hosting the 2026 World Cup must meet high standards to obtain environmental certifications, but FIFA also requires that they use natural grass, which is water-intensive to maintain. [...]

We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what's it telling us?

This week's result is just the latest in a growing collection of discoveries. [...]

The strange animals that control their body heat

Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods and, predators [...]

GPT-5 allegedly solves open math problem without human help

GPT-5 solves an open math problem for the first time, and the mathematician behind it shows exactly which line came from which AI. Does science really need this level of transparency?<br /> The [...]

Fei-Fei Li: the real risk of AI in classrooms is students who stop wanting to learn

Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at [...]