Artificial intelligence

Explore our coverage of artificial intelligence, from its technical underpinnings to its social, political and economic consequences


Business

Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race

This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing

Business

Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life

Artificial intelligence needs clean and reliable energy sources

Podcast Babbage

The 2024 Nobel prizes mark an important year for AI

Our podcast on science and technology. How the research recognised at this year’s Nobel prizes in science will transform the world

Asia

America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?

Amid an explosive data and AI boom the superpower contest hots up

Business

Will America’s government try to break up Google?

Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely

Leaders

A map of a fruit fly’s brain could help us understand our own

A miracle of complexity, powered by rotting fruit

Leaders

Dismantling Google is a terrible idea

Despite its appeal as a political rallying cry

Asia

India has a unique opportunity to lead in AI

Its development will be unlike China’s or America’s

Science & technology

AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions

Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear

Science & technology

Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work

Better tools are needed to analyse their effects

Science & technology

An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow

For now, it is the most sophisticated connectome ever made

Business

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world

Their code will get cheaper. So might they

Graphic detail

Want to win an argument? Use a chatbot

AI appears to do a better job of countering conspiracy theories than humans do

Podcast Babbage

The AI boom needs radical new chips. Engineers are stepping up to the challenge

Our podcast on science and technology. Artificial intelligence is driving unprecedented demands on computer chips, but chipmakers are relishing the opportunity to innovate

Science & technology

China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans

Tweaks to software blunt the shortage of powerful hardware

Business

OpenAI’s new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley

Generative AI is forcing America’s disrupters in chief to think differently

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