As a pediatrician, I know that some of the most transformative gifts for young children don’t require batteries or assembly.

Lastly, GWM Avatars combines generative video and speech in a unified model to produce human-like avatars that emote and move ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters ...

One of the most important AI scientists in Big Tech wants to scrap the current approach to building human-level AI. What we need, Yann LeCun has indicated, are not large language models, but “world ...

Moonshot released its new Kimi K2 Thinking model on Thursday. It claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 on some benchmarks. Open-source AI poses a challenge to proprietary US models. The global AI ...

As longtime educators of multilingual students, we were disheartened that the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a “Science of Reading” bill that ignores the needs of the Commonwealth’s ...

Despite a push from the state’s largest teachers union to defang the bill, the Massachusetts House on Wednesday passed a major reading instruction measure aimed at discarding outdated methods and ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The government has made ...

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...

Figure AI has given us a look at its idea of the robotic equivalent of the Model T as it rolls out its Figure 3 humanoid robot – the company's third-generation bipedal autonomous machine designed for ...