The Beiruter

A new UN warning highlights the legal challenges posed by technologies capable of interpreting brain activity, intensifying debate over whether existing human rights protections can safeguard mental privacy or whether new legal guarantees are necessary.

While the United States has concentrated on developing increasingly sophisticated AI models, China is investing heavily in embodied AI, integrating artificial intelligence into robots capable of operating in the physical world.

AI is solving previously unsolved mathematical problems, prompting researchers to reconsider the future of mathematical discovery and the role of mathematicians.

The discovery of a concealed recording device at OpenAI highlights how competition over advanced artificial intelligence is turning proprietary research into a valuable target for corporate espionage and foreign intelligence operations.

Scientists in Vienna and Beijing have demonstrated the first functioning nuclear clocks, opening a new chapter in centuries of technological advances that have transformed how humanity measures time.

Smaller, lower-cost semiconductor facilities could widen access to chipmaking, even as mass production remains dominated by industrial giants.

New research suggests that fears of escalation and difficulties reaching collective agreement are limiting Europe's willingness to use the tools already at its disposal.

Defense is becoming one of commercial space’s most consequential customers, bringing private satellite networks deeper into military operations and questions of sovereignty with them.

Artificial intelligence promises to transform warfare, but underwater it encounters an environment that makes sensing, communication and coordination unusually difficult.

The UAE-backed programme is Lebanon’s largest attempt yet to take artificial intelligence beyond the technology sector and into everyday life.

Tidal turbines can turn predictable ocean currents into electricity, but after decades of limited deployment, the industry must prove that larger projects can bring costs down enough to compete with wind and solar.