Step aside, LLMs. The next big step for AI is learning, reconstructing and simulating the dynamics of the real world. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a ...

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 ...

In recent years, we’ve become used to seeing text, pictures, videos and even computer code generated by AI. But what if it could go a step further and create entire worlds? Well, for developers ...

AI has changed the way searching happens—and that, in turn, has changed how discovery works. With tools like Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Gemini, the way they crawl the web is completely different from ...

Scientists have discovered that the human brain understands spoken language in a way that closely resembles how advanced AI language models work. By tracking brain activity as people listened to a ...

AI models are trained on massive amounts of data. But that training doesn’t do much good without what’s known as “reinforcement learning,” a process that involves human experts teaching models the ...

Does cloud-free AI have the cutting-edge over data processing and storage on centralised, remote servers by providers like ...

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...

I pushed eight free AI chatbots to their limits to find the best AI chatbots of 2026. To explore our top picks, check out ZDNET's chatbot-by-chatbot guide.

Perplexity has unveiled 'Computer,' an AI tool for Max subscribers that performs complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. It leverages 19 diverse AI models for specialized functions, orchestrating them ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping McKinsey's workforce, but the firm's top executive said there are still fundamental human skills that AI models can't do. Bob Sternfels, global managing partner at ...