Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

Contributing columnist Larry Smith explores how religion-based AI chatbots will influence people seeking answers about faith.

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

The algorithm year did not arrive with noise. That is exactly why it matters. Because the biggest changes are no longer announced, they are installed, accepted, and normalised. And by the time we ...

Agentic AI challenges the foundational tenets of our legal frameworks, which have historically relied on clear lines of ...

A research paper by scientists from Beihang University proposed a machine learning (ML)-driven cerebral blood flow (CBF) prediction model, featuring multimodal imaging data integration and an ...

Sharing anecdotes is not misinformation, but it can produce miscalibration, making to harder to make sense of the facts, writes Catherine De Soto.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

If you’ve ever paused a video on TikTok to wonder why it’s being shown to you, you know about the mysteries of the popular short-form video app’s algorithm. A post with no caption and minimal ...