Recent studies have found that “many ordinary people prefer an AI’s ethical reasoning to human reasoning, and even to the reasoning of the Ethicist column in the New York Times,” said Joshua May, Ph.D ...

Looking up information on Google today means confronting AI Overviews, the Gemini-powered search robot that appears at the top of the results page. AI Overviews has had a rough time since its 2024 ...

The parallelism in AI accelerators enables low latency but complicates failure isolation. HBM can account for 50% of package cost, so known-good stack assurance is critical. DFT and test cooperate to ...

As semiconductor devices become increasingly complex, the challenge of testing them efficiently and accurately grows in parallel. Traditional testing methods—rooted in static test plans—often fall ...

For decades, the way companies evaluated technical talent barely changed. Candidates were asked to solve algorithmic puzzles, write code on whiteboards or complete take-home programming assignments.

Peter Gostev's BullshitBench tests AI models with nonsensical questions to spot BS detection. Google Gemini 3.0 struggles with BullshitBench, failing to reject nonsense over half the time. One AI ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

As soon as new AI products are released, security researchers and pranksters begin probing them for weaknesses, trying to push systems to violate their own safety precautions and coax them into ...

Doctors should begin screening for heart disease and treating people for high cholesterol levels even younger than before, according to new recommendations from major medical organizations. While ...

A creative director stares at a blank page at 8:07 a.m., coffee cooling beside a half-finished brief. Ten years ago, that page would have pulled in a crowd: copy, art, strategy, maybe a junior team to ...

AI is set to revolutionize standardized test preparation, with some companies seeing opportunity while others predict the industry’s downfall. Students can spend anywhere from hundreds to a few ...