Renowned AI scientist Yann LeCun confirmed on Thursday that he had launched a new startup — the worst-kept secret in the tech world — though he said he will not be running the new company as its CEO.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

Are Machine Learning (ML) algorithms superior to traditional econometric models for GDP nowcasting in a time series setting? Based on our evaluation of all models from both classes ever used in ...

Valve’s announcement of the Steam Machine has sparked much debate online about the company’s return to the PC in the living room space, but one key piece of information remains unknown: price. The ...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly prevalent among adolescents and poses a significant public health challenge. Due to limitations in imaging and invasive diagnostic ...

Imagine pointing your phone's camera at the world, asking it to identify the dark green plant leaves, and asking if it's poisonous for dogs. Likewise, you're working on a computer, pull up the AI, and ...

Over the last few months, many AI boosters have been increasingly interested in generative video models and their seeming ability to show at least limited emergent knowledge of the physical properties ...

A rotating cylinder with its side cut away to expose the core, showing patches of purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange that are dense in the middle and more diffuse toward the edges. This rotating ...

Baltimore’s hospital for Yellow Cabs with broken mufflers and sprung seat springs was a shabby brick compound on East Preston Street and Greenmount Avenue. It sat immediately south of the Amtrak and ...

Bath & Body Works is going to college. Students at hundreds of U.S. universities will soon be able to buy the company’s fragrances, candles and other items at campus bookstores, in a departure from ...