Artificial intelligence

Explore our coverage of artificial intelligence, from its technical underpinnings to its social, political and economic consequences


Leaders

Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life

Welcome to the mirror world

Business

Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community

It hopes its models will set the standard for open-source artificial intelligence

Science & technology

Digital twins are making companies more efficient

They will also help them reap the benefits of advances in AI

Business

What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?

Two contradictions could stymie the AI chipmaker-in-chief

China

Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?

China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence

Leaders

Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good

Rules on safety may one day be needed. But not yet

By Invitation

Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI

It risks falling behind because of incoherent and complex regulation, say the two tech CEOs

Finance & economics

Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?

Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

Schools brief

AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?

Different countries are taking different approaches to regulating artificial intelligence

Finance & economics

Artificial intelligence is losing hype

For some, that is proof the tech will in time succeed. Are they right?

Science & technology

AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns

The challenge for neuroscientists is how to test them

Schools brief

LLMs will transform medicine, media and more

But not without a helping (human) hand

Culture

These are the two new books you need to read about AI

They explore the people who make AI work—for good or ill

Business

A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what?

The ruling could lead to a big-tech showdown

Business

A history-lover’s guide to the market panic over AI

Past technologies offer clues to what comes next

Schools brief

How AI models are getting smarter

Deep neural networks are learning diffusion and other tricks

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