As AI systems have advanced rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) at the center, every tech executive has experienced their limits—when AI systems struggle with complex problem-solving, produce ...

Will computers ever match or surpass human-level intelligence — and, if so, how? When the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), based in Washington DC, asked its members ...

In Siberia’s Denisova Cave, archaeologists uncovered Paleolithic jewelry, marble bracelets, and bone pins alongside ancient DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans. This rare blend of art and genetics ...

Sealed for 57,000 years, a French cave has revealed eerie wall markings that could upend everything we thought we knew about Neanderthals. This finding directly challenges the long-standing view that ...

70,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs, according to new research that challenges longstanding ...

Neanderthals didn’t just survive Europe’s Ice Age landscapes – they ventured into deep caves and made art. What they left isn’t figurative like the later animal scenes of Homo sapiens. Instead, it is ...

In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is now considered the oldest known human fingerprint—left in ochre pigment by a ...

Between 55,000 and 42,000 years ago, the Châtelperronian people lived in what is now modern-day France and northern Spain. Their tool industry is among the earliest known from this part of the world ...