When Quinten Farmer was getting his startup Portola off the ground, one of the first hires he made was a sci-fi novelist. The cofounders began building the AI companion company in late 2023 with only ...

Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer to reality. Lately, I’ve been noticing eerie parallels to Neal Stephenson’s 1995 ...

For decades, science fiction has warned that AIs might turn against us. But that fiction, from I, Robot to 2001: A Space Odyssey, to countless other texts with similar tales of intelligent robots ...

It's hard to imagine anything that isn't integrated with AI these days. It seems to have spread everywhere in just the last few years. At this pace, how long will it take for technology to produce ...