People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

ALSO CANCELED OR SCHEDULED AN EARLY RELEASE. MANY STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WILL SEE THE ECLIPSE, BUT IT WILL NOT LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME EVERY WHERE. THE APPEARANCE OF THE ECLIPSE WILL BE ROTATED, ...

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

AI labs like OpenAI claim that their so-called “reasoning” AI models, which can “think” through problems step by step, are more capable than their non-reasoning counterparts in specific domains, such ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...