Numbers are supposed to be neutral. They help us count, measure, and make sense of the world in purely mathematical terms.

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Brien Posey explains that a large language model’s performance depends more on architecture, training, and data quality than ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

AI-fueled technologies make communicating in other languages easier than ever, but it still can’t replace the transformative ...

With iOS 26, you are able to screen texts in Messages, as well as use Live Translation, select specific text to copy and ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Say you’re a small mammal like a ground squirrel, vulnerable to becoming a bigger animal’s meal. You spy a roomy cave in the distance—but two large bears are already heading into it. A few minutes ...

In the three years since large language models went mainstream, the number of new authors publishing a high volume of letters ...

Speaking more than one language can slow down the brain's aging and lower risks linked to accelerated aging.

Palantir has been one of the best-performing artificial intelligence (AI) stocks over the past five years. The company has ...

The data showed that the protective effect of multilingualism remained significant even when they adjusted for demographic ...