Algorithms from the 1980s power today's AI breakthroughs, earn Turing Award for researchers

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 A.M. Turing Award for developing key technologies that power modern artificial intelligence, including recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. [...]

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says pure generative AI can't do real science

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton sees a central weakness in conventional generative AI: it can't evaluate its own results. Without that ability, real scientific discovery remains impossible: no [...]

Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and in [...]

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission teases new insights on how life began

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest t [...]

Agentic design patterns: The missing link between AI demos and enterprise value

The enterprise AI market is currently nursing a massive hangover. For the past two years, decision-makers have been inundated with demos of autonomous agents booking flights, writing code, and analyzi [...]

I helped create Amazon's Alexa – here's why I think businesses should embrace humanity's analogous imperfection to succeed

Even as AI perfects tasks, businesses succeed by valuing human flaws, connection, and authenticity. [...]

'Imperfection itself becomes an asset' — Scientists find brilliant way to use messy quantum noise and build a silicon photonic chip that embraces the chaos

Researchers develop a silicon photonic chip that controls quantum noise using deliberate photon loss channels to study real system behaviour experimentally. [...]

Researchers broke GitHub Copilot’s safety by hiding harm in a workflow

Researchers at the Alan Turing Institute have shown that GitHub Copilot will produce harmful content it would normally refuse. The trick is to spread the request across an ordinary coding workflow. Th [...]

Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car

Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary [...]