Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The president, meanwhile, is bragging about rejecting a ceasefire proposal. Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS The number of U.S. troops injured in the Iran war surged ...

We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful. Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT. He worked on the instruction-following research behind it at OpenAI, and the four years since have left him ...

AI may be able to reason without putting every step into words. Many of today’s AI systems tackle difficult problems by generating intermediate steps in lengthy, chains of words before arriving at an ...

Signal’s new beta introduces numberless registration for new users. It costs a one-time fee of $3, which is paid anonymously and not linked to your Signal account. It also adds support for two-factor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given the slim possibility that words might still mean something in public discourse, perhaps homeless camps should be called what ...

I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy. The mathematicians work for a ...

A flurry of admonishments erupts from two parents nearby, and I turn to see a small child half-naked and rising from a squat on the gravel path. Pull your pants up! they say, pull your shirt down! as ...

You know your dog can count on you in a range of situations. If they’re feeling scared or uncertain, you’ll always be there to lend a comforting pat. And, of course, if they’re sick or injured, you’ll ...

Smartphones now ship with more RAM and storage to accommodate the heavier workloads, larger media files and expansive app libraries. If you're shopping for a new Android smartphone from a mainstream ...

Next weekend will be the 186th convention of the National Puzzlers' League, in Bloomington, Ind., which I'll be attending as always. Two other people who will be there are Henri Picciotto and Joshua ...

Sometimes the jokes really do write themselves in British politics, don't they? As this week we're watching Reform leader and MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage, take a leaf out of Trump's playbook and ...

Madonna is welcoming us into the club of love. The 67-year-old Queen of Pop launches her highly anticipated studio album Confessions II on Friday (July 3), and “Love Without Words” is one of the many ...