Inside a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology late last year, scientists gave an AI system a new task: designing entirely new molecules for potential antibiotics from scratch. Within a day ...

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To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In animal tests, these rotations predicted performance: full rotations meant ...

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Using ChatGPT is a lot simpler than you think, and there are many ways to make it work best for you. Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on people and society. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,023 adults from ...

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Artificial intelligence has already found its way around mainstream technology usage, but now it's found a new home — Indiana University. On Thursday, the university announced it ...

With AI software increasingly hogging the enterprise spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before. In the first half of 2025, AI startups raised over $44 billion, more than all of ...

The companies that are succeeding with in-house AI, however, have seen revenue jump from zero to $20 million in a year. U.S. businesses have invested between $35 billion and $40 billion into internal ...