ai progress

Eight of the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence models are about to clash over chessboards, marking the debut of Google's Kaggle Game Arena—a groundbreaking fusion of gaming and rigorous benchmarking set to redefine the way AI performance is measured. With a fresh approach that...

When Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s founding researchers and long-time Chief Scientist, stepped away from the company in mid-2024, there was intense speculation about who would emerge to steer the organization’s research agenda and safeguard its claim to the artificial intelligence crown. In...

In a moment both absurd and strikingly revealing, two state-of-the-art AI chatbots—Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT—found themselves unable to best a 46-year-old, 4 KB chess program running on the Atari 2600. This unlikely contest, orchestrated by Citrix engineer Robert Caruso and chronicled across...

The swirl of generative AI’s rapid progress has become impossible to ignore. Its influence is already reshaping everything from healthcare diagnostics to movie scriptwriting, but recent headlines have illuminated not just breakthroughs, but also baffling claims, unexpected user habits, and...

For decades, the evolution of technology was mapped out along the neat lines drawn by Moore’s Law—the prediction that transistor counts in microchips would double roughly every two years, unlocking regular leaps in computing power. That simplifying rule was enough for a generation. Yet the rise...