Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity ...

A 15-year-old Kazakh student is developing an AI sign language translator that uses photorealistic video to make online information more accessible to deaf people.

Science has increasingly used artificial intelligence (AI) as a kind of microscope—sorting data, analyzing images and revealing hidden patterns. Now a new shift is underway: AI that not only breaks ...

Humans have sophisticated language abilities that could be unique to our species — but dogs, it turns out, may have learned some of our tricks. In new research out of Hungary published this week in ...

Diego Diaz interpreting at a June 2026 event put on by the Department of Housing and the Cook County Assessor’s Office Credit: Courtesy Cook County Assessor’s Office Where in the world is Diego Diaz?

But a new study shows that work use cases make up less of the picture than AI companies claim. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like ...

A flurry of admonishments erupts from two parents nearby, and I turn to see a small child half-naked and rising from a squat on the gravel path. Pull your pants up! they say, pull your shirt down! as ...

Some people find it useful to talk through their problems—but language isn't necessary for logical reasoning, cognitive neuroscientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research say. In research ...

Ask a roomful of senior executives what AI can do for their business, and the answers will probably cluster around the same themes: lower costs, smaller headcount, faster processes, leaner operations.

Gen Z might be using the abbreviation for “point of view” incorrectly. But linguists think it’s exciting. By Nitsuh Abebe Two months ago, Griffin Bassett uploaded one of the language-education videos ...

You may have heard the parable of the empty boat. It goes something like this: A man traveling down a river is bumped by a boat. He becomes incensed until he realizes that no one is stewarding the ...