After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the same technique to solve another important problem

A new report by The Information revealed that Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI has generated approximately $30 billion in revenue for the former between 2023 and 2025.

Three lunar landings are planned for this year in preparation for the construction of a $20bn moon base

Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.

An exotic new molecule is shaped like a butterfly, complete with "wings" made from electrons. The discovery could provide a gateway to completely new parts of the quantum realm

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed as a monumental moment for AI in mathematics

I’m going to tell you something embarrassing. For a long time, I thought the internet would immediately make society better. How could it not? A world where everyone was more connected would be a world where everyone was more empathetic. The gatekeepers would fall. There would be more access, more expertise, more chances for curiosity to be rewarded. This is not what happened.

This chart shows the number of data centers per country as of May 2026.

This infographic shows the leading countries/regions by spending on semiconductor materials in 2025.

Blue Origin founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos said it was a ”very rough day” for the company, but it was too early to know the “root cause” of the incident.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Will computers based on quantum physics really change the world? The IBM Quantum System Two, a modular quantum computer, as seen in 2025 at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Inside a low-slung building in an office park near the southeastern edge of the San Francisco Bay, a cluster of white tanks sit bathed in blue light. Within these tanks are sets of superconducting circuits etched into chips, all held by golden chandelierlike

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories A laser shoots into the night sky from an 8.2-meter optical telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. In the future, quantum technology could allow arrays of optical telescopes to work in unison, effectively acting as a single giant observatory. For the light from faraway stars and galaxies to reach and be detected by our telescopes

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Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record for the biggest molecule yet to be simulated using quantum hardware

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Robots are becoming more a part of our lives every year, and worries about a robot army rising up have long plagued the technology. But columnist Annalee Newitz talks to nanobot researchers and finds out the real robot army could be a welcome solution to medical or environmental problems