AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. As the world tries to keep up with the rapid advances of artificial intelligence across ...

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

You’ve probably seen an artificial intelligence system go off track. You ask for a video of a dog, and as the dog runs behind the love seat, its collar disappears. Then, as the camera pans back, the ...

Welcome to Free Expression, a new daily newsletter on life, politics and culture from WSJ Opinion. To subscribe, click here. Artificial intelligence may present many expanded opportunities for ...

Foams were once thought to behave like glass, with bubbles frozen in place at the microscopic level. But new simulations reveal that foam bubbles are always shifting, even while the foam keeps its ...

An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game from the digital storefront Steam. The game, dubbed “Hardest,” is a free-to-play ...

In this video I set up a fun chain of ping pong ball trick shots that type out the word “Context” on my laptop screen. Each shot lands in a cup to add the next letter while I explain how I use Context ...

Ping drivers have always been known for being “brick s***houses” — as our gear director Johnny Wunder likes to say — that no matter where you hit it on the face, you barely lose any speed and it flies ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering a decisive phase—one defined less by speculative breakthroughs than by the hard realities of governance, adoption, and strategic competition. As AI systems ...