If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available ...

Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. LONDON — In the year-plus since Najat Khan joined the AI-focused drug ...

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of significant leadership hirings, firings and retirings across the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Darren ...

The Recursive Division Tree (RDT) algorithm is a mathematical process for measuring the logarithmic height of positive integers. For any integer ( n \ge 2 ), it recursively divides by logarithm-based ...

Recursion Pharmaceuticals remains a high-cash-burn, premium-valued biotech with unproven clinical success despite a recent 47% rally. RXRX's next 18 months are catalyst-rich, but key pipeline assets ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...

Anyone who is interested in realistic real-time graphics, be it in games or animation, will know that dense vegetation can be very costly on GPU resources. They either eat up lots of VRAM or shader ...