Opinion

Words Without Consequence

Speech without enforceable consequence undermines the social contract. Trust, cooperation, and democratic deliberation all rely on the assumption that speakers are bound by what they say.
Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...
And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...
T-Mobile is preparing to offer network-based real-time translation services in more than 50 languages. The new service, currently in beta testing, could ultimately be available to all T-Mobile ...
Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...
However, once you read this, the fact that you read it is now history, too. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Like many, I’ve repeated George Santayana’s quotes, but ...
Claude works like a person because it was trained on what people have done. Its greatest source of danger is that it could amplify the most dangerous parts of us.
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday in favor of the New Jersey Attorney General's crackdown against a gun company over its ...
A new AI agent that can run locally on computers is reverberating inside and outside Silicon Valley, performing everything from writing emails and updating calendars to implementing workflow ...
A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.
Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.