Artificial intelligence
Explore our coverage of artificial intelligence, from its technical underpinnings to its social, political and economic consequences
Business
Can the Gulf states become tech superpowers?
The region’s rulers want to move away from fossil fuels
Babbage
Does AI need a reality check? An interview with Gary Marcus
Our podcast on science and technology. Modern AI’s most energetic critic outlines his hopes for the technology in 2025
Business
Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
The world’s contract manufacturers are moving into new products and places
Science & technology
Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
Eventually, models could be trained without any dedicated hardware at all
Finance & economics
Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?
A new book by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber argues there are advantages to financial mania
Babbage
How voice AI suddenly got so good
Our podcast on science and technology. Recent advances that allow computers to talk will change how we interact with the digital world forever
Business
Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising
Omnicom’s takeover of Interpublic signals an industry in trouble
Business
What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?
OpenAI and Google have unveiled their next generation of products
Science & technology
Machine translation is almost a solved problem
But interpreting meanings, rather than just words and sentences, will be a daunting task
Science & technology
AI can bring back a person’s own voice
And it can generate sentences trained on their own writing
By Invitation
An agenda to maximise AI’s benefits and minimise harms, by David Patterson
How technologists, researchers and policymakers can reassure people AI will serve the public good
Europe
How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
Ukraine is making tens of thousands of them
1843 magazine | Inside the AI back-channel between China and the West
Computer scientists are reaching out across the geopolitical divide to try to stop an apocalypse
