In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

Ever shared a photo of a delicious new chocolate bar, only to find out it doesn’t exist? If you have, you’ve probably been snackfished. ‘Snackfish’ is a word that describes photoshopped or ...

For decades, humanity has treated the global population count as a settled number, updated in neat increments and plotted on smooth graphs. Now a wave of research suggests those tidy figures may be ...