Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!) By The New York Times Books Staff Welcome, dear readers, to our second ...

A significant shift is under way in artificial intelligence, and it has huge implications for technology companies big and small. For the past half-decade, most of the focus in AI has been on training ...

The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...

Merck & Co. has doubled down on its partnership with Variational AI, striking a deal worth up to $349 million to collaborate on small molecule candidates against two targets. Variational disclosed a ...

As frontier models move into production, they're running up against major barriers like power caps, inference latency, and rising token-level costs, exposing the limits of traditional scale-first ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Variational inference is a family of optimisation-based methods for approximating complex posterior distributions in Bayesian models. By transforming inference into an optimisation problem, these ...