Technology now allows the creation of increasingly realistic AI agents. Human-like AI agents—such as the digital characters ...

Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Last weekend, I stopped by a gadget kiosk at my local mall—but not to buy a phone case or get a cracked screen replaced. Instead, I was ...

Alumna, author and machine learning expert Vivienne Ming explains why the best defense against AI’s downsides is investing in human skills — and using the technology inquisitively, not passively ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

People who are easy to talk to tend to move through life more easily than those who seem distant or guarded. Their approachability leads to friendships and alliances at work, which in turn lead to ...

Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...

After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey ...

In the utopia proposed by Elon Musk, billions of robots perform all necessary work. A network of autonomous vehicles and humanoids, fueled by solar energy, provide boundless resources. Poverty is ...

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...

With the release of iOS 26.4, Apple Music's Playlist Playground can now generate playlists with the help of AI. Best of all, you don't need an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone to take advantage of ...

Most executives believe that the big challenge in adopting agentic AI is figuring out how to adapt to a new and important technology. But in fact it’s primarily about managing work. Joseph Fuller is a ...

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks ...