Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

During my time working with tech companies navigating the early boom of AI adoption, I noticed a strange duality. Developers proudly open-sourced breakthrough models one week—and raced to patent their ...

When quantum computers become powerful enough, they could theoretically crack the encryption algorithms that keep us safe. The race is on to find new ones. Tech Review Explains: Let our writers ...

Large language models have captured the news cycle, but there are many other kinds of machine learning and deep learning with many different use cases. Amid all the hype and hysteria about ChatGPT, ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized a set of encryption algorithms designed to withstand cyberattacks from quantum computers. These ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...