People with problematic social media use are more prone to believe in misinformation
A new study analyzed the behavior of young individuals who are highly dependent on online content
When a robot becomes conscious, how will we know?
AGI will be a system capable of learning from experience without having to swallow the entire internet before breakfast; capable of abstracting information, projecting actions, and understanding situations it has never encountered before
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants us to remove the stigma around virtual friends: ‘I’m not going to let this go’
Meta and its competitors are working on a future with a dominant presence of artificially intelligent robots on social networks
This is what AI ‘ghosts’ will be like: Working after our death, advising our grandchildren, or accidentally revealing an affair
A Google study analyzes the unexpected consequences of using this new technology to reincarnate oneself or loved ones
AI researchers doubt current models will lead to achieving human intelligence
A survey of hundreds of AI specialists from around the world reveals that a large majority believe that this technology needs a different approach to surpass its current capabilities
The system that ‘reinvents’ weather forecasting: Model claims to be thousands of times more accurate and faster
The method uses artificial intelligence and learning models based on 80 years of physical data
EU preparing first fines against tech giants Apple and Meta
Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera is getting ready to impose sanctions on the tech giants for non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. But European authorities are not expected to impose the highest possible sanction
The tariff bomb wipes out $10 trillion in stock market value, half of the EU’s entire GDP
Big tech companies lead the losses, with €1.5 trillion cumulatively shed since Thursday from the Magnificent Seven’s market capitalization
The war over the robotaxi’s future escalates in Austin, the Silicon Valley of Texas
The alliance between Uber and Waymo in the city, where Musk has plans for Tesla in June, opens new avenues for expansion in the self-driving car sector
Gabriela Salas, the Indigenous scientist who brought Nahuatl to Google: ‘It is important that girls study to be freer’
This 28-year-old Mexican has been recognized for incorporating the language spoken by 1.6 million people into the search engine’s translator
The state as common good’s last stand: Recipes to stop oligarchy
A growing number of economists are calling on governments to step up to ensure that the private sector’s pursuit of profit is aligned with the interests of society as a whole
YouTube turns 20: What happened to Jawed Karim, founder and author of the first video?
Two decades after creating the video platform, little is known about his life. Originally from Germany and naturalized as an American, his first clip marked a before and after in the history of the internet
China’s strengths and weaknesses in Trump’s new trade war
The state of the economy leaves Beijing with little room for maneuver, but recent technological tours de force such as DeepSeek have given it more bargaining power
China retaliates with countermeasures against Trump’s tariffs
Beijing announces levies of up to 15% on imports of US products, such as oil and large cars, an investigation into Google and restrictions on exports of critical minerals
When did we fall out of love with globalization? New rules break the traditional China-led pattern
Trade frictions, restrictions on foreign investment and tech wars have gained ground, and digital platforms are the undisputed winners
DeepSeek reports campaign of ‘large-scale malicious attacks’ after becoming most downloaded app
Several companies have banned the use of the Chinese AI software due to security and data protection concerns. Donald Trump has called its emergence a ‘wake-up call for our industries’
Why DeepSeek AI has brought down the giants of Silicon Valley
The Chinese company has created a cheaper and more efficient model of artificial intelligence by taking advantage of previous developments
Cecilia Rikap, researcher: ‘Microsoft and Google are like salt: they’re on every plate’
The economist, who studies large technology companies’ monopoly on knowledge, is advising the Brazilian government on the development of a sovereign digital strategy
Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind: ‘Our next challenge is to understand the semantics of DNA’
The director of the corporation’s scientific laboratory points to genomics, nuclear fusion and the development of new materials as future areas of exploration for his team
Two years of ChatGPT: From utter amazement to the ‘trough of disillusionment’
The tool that ignited the race for generative artificial intelligence has evolved, but less than anticipated. And experts aren’t expecting any immediate breakthrough advances in the field
ChatGPT is right-wing and Gemini is left-wing: Why each AI has its own ideology
A study confirms that no major language model is neutral and that its biases tend to be constant in the same direction
US launches broad antitrust probe against Microsoft
The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing its cloud computing business and its dominance in artificial intelligence. Competitors have complained that the company’s bundling practices make it hard to compete
Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry: ‘We will need a handful of breakthroughs before we reach artificial general intelligence’
The CEO of Google DeepMind cools expectations about the progress of AGI, which he sees as a lever to accelerate scientific research
When gastronomy becomes gastrostomy: The dangers of machine translation typos
Programs that facilitate the understanding of texts and dialogues in another language can replicate, replace, or overlook original errors, which can have significant consequences in legal, medical, or conflict-zone settings
The downfall of Marilyn Cote, the fake Mexican psychiatrist who claimed to cure depression in seven days
The lawyer, who used fake IDs and fabricated degrees to prescribe psychiatric drugs, posed as the ‘best specialist in mental disorders in the United States and the Netherlands’
AI’s black box problem: Why is it still indecipherable to researchers
Some artificial intelligence algorithms, particularly neural networks, have internal processes that remain largely unknown. This lack of transparency is one of the sources of biases and hallucinations
Terence Tao, mathematician: ‘It’s not good for something as important as AI to be a monopoly held by one or two companies’
The Fields Medal winner is attempting to solve one of the Millennium Problems, with a reward of $1 million, but he also applies his analysis to topical enigmas such as the Venezuelan election and the advance of artificial intelligence