Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local ...

Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His ...

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning.

Technology roles continue to grow faster than almost any other sector, yet many professionals lack the formal computer science credentials or technical knowledge needed to progress. Whether you are ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure. When you purchase through ...

In the field of multi-objective evolutionary optimization, prior studies have largely concentrated on the scalability of objective functions, with relatively less emphasis on the scalability of ...