Britain is placing two enormous, long-horizon wagers on technologies that do not yet work at commercial scale. In March 2026, Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed a £1 billion quantum computing ...
A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...
A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the ...
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A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math ...
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Microsoft has unveiled an upgraded quantum chip that it says keeps the company on track to develop practical quantum computers faster than its competitors. The chip, called Majorana 2, is an updated ...
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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Since 1933 some scientists have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...
Reporting from May 2026 accurately claimed that Google Chrome silently installed a 4-gigabyte artificial intelligence model on users' devices without consent, and that the model reinstalls itself if ...