It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are apps dedicated to tanning. There truly is an app for everything. Why wouldn’t there be one to tell you when to go outside, soak up the sun, turn over, ...

In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input. By Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories ...

What if we could turn off the lights, flip on a flashlight, and watch the world transform in a dim purple glow? If you're a fan of forensic crime dramas, or you've used ultraviolet tools at work to ...

In exchange, the French company TotalEnergies would invest in oil and natural gas projects in Texas and elsewhere. By Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer Maxine Joselow reported from Washington and Brad ...

Spoilers ahead for the book and movie versions of "Project Hail Mary." One of the things I really enjoy about "Project Hail Mary" is the way the story is built on the premise of a time crunch, even ...

OpenAI said it will acquire Astral, a startup that builds tools for software developers. Astral's team will join OpenAI as part of the group running its AI coding assistant, Codex. OpenAI has been ...

An ongoing and heated dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic is raising new questions about how the startup’s technology is actually used inside the US military. In late February, Anthropic ...

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...

This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It's what's known as a world world, an AI system capable of generating images and reacting as the user moves through the environment the software is ...

Last year, Google showed off Genie 3, an updated version of its AI world model with impressive long-term memory that allowed it to create interactive worlds from a simple text prompt. At the time, ...

An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.