On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots. While technologically impressive, the outcome ...

In the first days of my son’s life, during the fall of 2023, he spent much of the time when he wasn’t sleeping or eating engaged in what some cognitive scientists call “motor babbling.” His arms and ...

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

This week, my newsroom colleague Kevin Roose chronicled the heartbreaking story of Sewell Setzer III, a Florida teenager who took his own life — and whose mother blames Character.AI, a role-playing ...

Picture the scene: You move into a nursing home in the final years of your life, when you are no longer able to manage on your own. And there you discover the future. The place teems with humanoid ...

Artists & Robots, an independent brand experience studio founded to amplify human creativity in an AI-powered world, today announced its launch in New York. The studio, led by co-founders Heather ...

Nicolas Cage has slammed artificial intelligence by saying any actor who lets it alter their performance is approaching "a dead end" as "robots cannot reflect the human condition." As reported by ...

As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.