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The Nvidia CEO is a relentless AI optimist with the president's ear. Stephen Witt, author of The Thinking Machine, tells NPR's Juana Summers how their relationship could shape the future of AI.
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Glacial floods are increasingly dangerous around the world.
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The two nations will have to overcome long-term mistrust and a very different set of priorities.
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Indigenous communities around the world are using traditional knowledge to respond to floods, fires and drought.
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Geoffrey Hinton is a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and cognitive psychologist. Over decades, he helped develop the mathematical engine behind today’s AI, and his students have gone on to found companies like OpenAI.
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In Juneau this summer, a dozen bears were feasting on a landfill in the city. Another bear crawled into a hotel via the window.
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Critics say a slowdown of AI development among the largest companies could consolidate the power of frontier labs, just as many others are trying to catch up.
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Coral reefs are under threat right now, due to abnormally warm ocean temperatures. Scientists are studying some of the most pristine reefs in the world, in search of ways to help all reefs recover.
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Hurricane Polo has grown into one of the most powerful Pacific cyclones in decades, and it was expected to skirt Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 storm.
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Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus, he discusses the scam involving Fresh Air.
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Scientists have found a species they've named the fire amoeba, which is capable of reproducing at 145°F and continuing to move up to temperatures of 147°F — a record for complex eukaryotic life.
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Every summer for the past 15 years, a glacial lake in the mountains outside of Juneau has burst through the ice dam that holds it back. At first, the floods downstream on the Mendenhall River were barely noticeable. Then, something changed.
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Residents in Louisiana near SpaceX's next launch site are concerned about the project's impact on the environment and say they were kept in the dark about the deal.
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OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.