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From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

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ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...

Local fights against new data centers are gaining bipartisan support across the US. If there’s one thing Republicans and ...

Tech companies that announced their involvement this week include some of the biggest names in AI -- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind -- as well as hardware companies like Nvidia and Intel and data ...

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