The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...

Most of the crypto industry spent this week processing Google's paper on how quantum computers could break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a different question — whether quantum hardware ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) launched its latest model, GPT-5.4 Thinking, designed specifically to meet the needs of businesses, placing it in even more direct competition with its rival Anthropic (ANTHRO). It's ...

The hours you spend tracing countries on a globe or puzzling over a chessboard may add up to more than idle time. According to a new study, such mentally stimulating pursuits are linked to years-long ...

BEIJING, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently, with big improvements in performance and cost that ...

OpenAI Group PBC today released a lightweight version of its popular agentic coding tool GPT-5.3-Codex, which is designed for more rapid inference, the process by which artificial intelligence models ...

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy ...

A new flagship is always cause for attention, but none is likely to endure the scrutiny the refreshed 2027 Mercedes-Benz S-Class will. Historically, the S-Class is Mercedes’ tech leader. You look at ...

What just happened? Valve Corporation's near-two-decade dominance in PC gaming distribution is now under serious legal scrutiny in the United Kingdom. The company behind Steam is facing a £656 million ...

The six US senators cited a sharp rise in illicit crypto activity in 2025 to argue that the DOJ should not have disbanded its cryptocurrency enforcement team. Six US senators have challenged Deputy ...

The Mercedes-Benz CLE-Class is something of an odd duck in the German brand's lineup. Not quite a C-Class and not quite an E-Class, the coupe replaces both of those models' two-door variants with one ...