For centuries, most of the world’s economies grew at a similarly slow rate. However, a “Great Divergence” occurred with the Industrial Revolution, causing industrializing nations to accelerate their ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a decisive phase—one defined less by speculative breakthroughs than by the hard realities of governance, adoption, and strategic competition. As AI systems ...

Morningstar analysts recently ranked Nvidia and Microsoft as the two best artificial intelligence stocks to buy right now. Brian Colello at Morningstar says Nvidia has an economic moat due to its ...

The first aphorism I ever read was on the Quotable Quotes page of Reader’s Digest, one of only two publications available in my house growing up. (The other was Time magazine.) I must have been about ...

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.

As AI becomes more prevalent in education, work and social life, research is increasingly focused on understanding its nuanced effects on core cognitive functions such as memory, attention and ...

Opinions about artificial intelligence tend to fall on a wide spectrum. At one extreme is the utopian view that AI will cause runaway economic growth, accelerate scientific research and perhaps make ...

Instead of doing one thing very well, artificial general intelligence will do many things very well — if it ever arrives. As artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, gains traction in the ...

Have you ever heard the expression, “Use it or lose it”? Nowhere does this idiom apply more than to the brain. Sure, the brain isn’t a muscle, but to keep it sharp, it still needs consistent neural ...

With the rise of artificial intelligence, advocates say it can be a helpful tool for kids and teachers — but others say it discourages students from critical thinking. Many educators have been ...

Understanding the evolving compute landscape of tomorrow. In partnership withArm Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in ...