During the WWDC26 keynote, Apple announced its third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), comprising five models, some of which are local, some of which are cloud-based, and one of which lives ...

The Athletic launched our World Cup Tracker this week, a page we highly encourage you to check out. There, you can find a forecast projecting the likelihood that each team will progress through each ...

The “prisoner’s dilemma” is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. It even appeared in the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, which told the story of mathematician John Nash. For decades, this ...

As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large ...

The Spurs are officially one win away from a Western Conference finals showdown with the Thunder after winning 126–97 against the Timberwolves in Game 5 Tuesday. San Antonio ran out to a big lead ...

A conspiracy theory is soothing to the believer not just because it promises a complete explanation for all that appears wrong with the world, but also because it confirms the sense that something is ...

Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only ...

After a pair of Game 7s on Sunday, the first round of the NBA playoffs has come to a close, and what a round it was. The Cavaliers punched the final ticket to the second round by grinding out a ...

While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI’s models to train xAI’s own. He touched upon the topic while sitting on the witness ...

“Mission Accomplished.” This phrase has haunted US foreign policy ever since George W. Bush stood on the deck of USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 and declared victory in a war that would drag on for ...

“The half-life of humanity is currently around 35 years,” said Nobel laureate in physics David Gross as he concluded an evening lecture at the German Physical Society’s conference in Erlangen in March ...

ThE CEASEFIRE between America and Iran got off to a violent start. After it was announced on April 8th, Israel intensified its bombardment of Hizbullah fighters in Lebanon (which Israel says was not ...