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With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enroll in classes on artificial intelligence...

Colleges are adding degree programs in this emerging field.

ByteDance is reportedly training an AI model with roughly 10 trillion parameters as it tries to close the gap with leading frontier systems such as Anthropic's Mythos. The model is still in early pre-training, and its eventual performance will depend on more …

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The black box keeps getting darker.

“Pluto never stops surprising us.”

Computer Space is often regarded as the first commercially distributed arcade machine, and David Perry’s personal two-player unit of this historical artifact is now up for grabs

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang signed one of the chipmaker's desktop GPU units as a prize in March. It just fetched over $57,000 at auction.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started…

On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots. The team presented Copilot and had the teachers practise using it to write emai…

Wired reports that consumer neurotechnology is rapidly moving from the lab into workplaces and homes, with companies including Apple, Meta, and Snap developing products that can monitor or interpret brain activity. Researchers warn that as these systems impro…

It's "radically different from other quantum computers" reports Phys.org. The Helios system uses trapped ions — charged atoms suspended in free space using electromagnetic fields. But it operates with 98 qubits — making it the largest trapped-ion quantum co…

When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect.

The project and other items from Apple's history are being auctioned off to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary.

Fei-Fei Li said schools should use AI to help learners ask questions and get unstuck, without letting it replace independent thinking.

Europe is facing its fifth round of dangerously high temperatures this summer, the New York Times reports. Now climate scientists wonder if global warming is doing more than raise temperatures... The weather patterns that create heat domes aren't new, but to…

The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft? Microsoft, of all places, might …

Mit der Steuersoftware ZEST lernen Roboter Tricks aus Handyvideos oder Bewegungsdaten. Auf der echten Hardware gelingt ihnen der Trick dann auf Anhieb.

South Korea has set out seven strategic technology programmes it intends to pursue after artificial intelligence, including an uncrewed Moon landing by 2030, President Lee Jae-myung announced on Wednesday at a meeting of scientists, executives and investors a…

Collectors have proven avid fans of Steve Jobs memorabilia over the years, and a new piece seems likely to attract significant interest. It’s an 8th-grade science fair project with two demonstration circuits – and a warning note from Steve to his teachers. It…

You shouldn’t expect your leadership style to emerge fully-formed from the beginning. But it is important to develop it consciously.

Fei-Fei Li thinks schools are worrying about the wrong thing. The danger of AI in classrooms is not that students will use it to cheat, she argues, but that it will strip away their reason to learn at all. She made the case on the science podcast Huberman Lab…

As you are reading this post, you are almost certainly looking at a computer … a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone.  As I look around my shared workspace, I can see, without moving …

The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is one of them, with 12 subfields listed underneath. Open-weig…

ICTP has awarded its 2026 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made important contributions to statistical mechanics, a framework used by physicists to describe the collective behaviour of systems with many constituents, and have used it to explore far-ran…

A former Oracle engineer says AI and layoffs have raised the stakes for H-1B visa holders. Here's how he's adapting.

The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called “Little Boy” exploded above Hiro...

There's a reason why double- or triple-screening your devices makes you feel tired, says NPR's Manoush Zomorodi. She explains the science of information overload and how to reclaim calm and focus.

Oprah Winfrey says she will close the school for underprivileged girls she set up in South Africa two decades ago at the end of next year. Winfrey opened th...

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $47 million investment over five years, along with additional financial commitments from nearly three dozen universities and private industry...

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Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longs…

Sam Altman shared an exact prompt he gave ChatGPT, so I used it too. In hours, I had made a website without writing a single line of code.

Have you ever handled a surgical scalpel? It’s an incredible tool - small, light and sharper than anything of its size and purpose. It takes thousands of hours of practice before someone is authorized to use it on human skin, and mastering it takes a lifetime…

An Amazon engineer explains why he left for the semiconductor industry after weighing Big Tech layoffs, his visa status, and long-term career growth.

BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry on Monday accused the United States of "AI hegemonism" and threatened countermeasures after senior U....

Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.

Jeff Dean, who just left Google after 27 years, says future success belongs to Gen Z students who read broadly and focus on problems with a five-year horizon...

Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say.  “There is no independent source to corroborate it,” says Anka R…

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) designed a robotic arm using an octopus as their inspiration, complete with suction cups.

A counterexample and a proof are not the same kind of achievement. A proof shows that something is always true. A counterexample shows that something claimed to be always true is not, by producing one object where it fails. Both settle a question. They ask di…

CUNY’s Computer Science Growing Pains Joshua.Bay Mon, 08/17/2026 - 03:00 AM After a decade-long enrollment boom, CUNY faces faculty shortages and pressure to prepare students in the field for an AI-driven job market. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

OpenAI’s GPT-5 turns one tomorrow, and the company is marking the week by looking beyond individual models. Today, OpenAI introduced Agent Plugins, an open standard meant to let reusable AI-agent extensions work across compatible products.

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Announcing tale.fyi: read (or listen) to an entire book from a single link. by samuel cole, as one long readable page.

Complete sequencing of more than 2,000 centromeres from diverse humans reveals structures and elevated mutation rates that shape the evolution of these critically important regions.

Emory anthropologists created an AI system to automate behavioral studies of capuchins monkeys in the wild. The novel method provides a roadmap for the first scalable, systematic way to evaluate and monitor the cognitive abilities of wild primates.

Time for a break.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt der Quantenphysik! Das Webinar führt kompakt durch die Grundlagen, von Schrödingers Katze bis zum Quantencomputer.

Notability today announced a new desktop workflow that lets Mac users start recording sessions directly from their calendar events, with the resulting notes automatically organized around their schedule. Here are the details.

Star Trek is regarded as a cornerstone of modern science-fiction television, and these five gadgets have become just as iconic as a result.

Computer programmer Fei Zhaojun's boss asked him if artificial intelligence could soon replace humans in coding jobs. Two weeks later, he was laid off from...

Business Insider talked to five summer interns and campus hires from Citadel and Citadel Securities about how they made an impact at the hedge fund early.

Historian Jill Lepore explains what tech leaders miss in their favorite stories—and why the fight over AI data centers may be where the machine stops

Stop Telling Students Computer Science Is Dying Elizabeth Redden Tue, 07/28/2026 - 03:00 AM The data says otherwise. Byline(s) Christine Julien

AI Career Skills Move Beyond Computer Science Joshua.Bay Wed, 08/19/2026 - 03:00 AM New Handshake data shows how students across majors are building AI experience and navigating an evolving early-career job market. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Quantum computing exists because governments funded risky bets. Capitalism can carry it the rest of the way — if quantum scientists are supported.

Strange whirlpools of plasma seen in the sharpest images ever captured of our star help explain the deep origins of Earth-threatening space weather and more

The researcher who led Alibaba’s Qwen models has started his own company. Junyang Lin announced Pragmatik Labs on X on Tuesday evening, five months after walking out of Alibaba. The lab is based in Shanghai and works on what Lin calls next-generation agents a…

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information reported. Juro Osawa wrote that it is one of the company’s…

These sci-fi books present different visions of a future in which AI's capabilities have surpassed humanity's—a future OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says is already here.

Zvezdelina Stankova published an op-ed on 15 August arguing that Berkeley admits students who cannot do middle school mathematics. Within days, the argument had been overtaken by a question about how the op-ed itself was written. Zvezdelina Stankova, a teachi…

Oracle and Quantinuum have agreed a multi-year partnership under which Quantinuum will physically install its Helios quantum computer inside a US Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data centre, and Oracle will sell access to it as a managed OCI service. No financ…

The ranking of the 25 best public schools in the US includes seven in California.

The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.

A million-dollar math mystery may someday be resolved in a physics lab. A new study brings this vision one step closer.

Top AI firms revealed autonomous AI cyberattacks in recent weeks.

Emerging treatments known as orexin agonists show wide-ranging promise similar to that of GLP-1 receptor agonists. Plus, postdocs protest in Argentina and the highest-resolution image ever of the Sun’s photosphere.

Ruiyu Li, a 26-year-old AI research scientist at Meta, said that publishing research helped her land the role.

Google’s “Nano Banana” AI allowed users to generate any images they wanted from Google Earth—and Google didn’t measure the consequences.

United Airlines’ 58-year-old CEO shares the first mantra he learned while training as a pilot—and one that was recently publicly put to the test.

A former Oracle engineer says AI and layoffs have raised the stakes for H-1B visa holders. Here's how he's adapting.

Professor Kamal Ali and his team of Jackson State University student researchers spent their summer tending to a crate of oysters, magnets and wires. The ma...

What started as endearingly bootstrapped marketing descended into soulless corporate sales.

I don’t know what sort of neurodiverse bucket this puts me in, but I think a lot about mowing the lawn1 relative to how much time I actually spend mowing lawns (~6-7 hours per year). And so I was

Wanna hear about Connes’s rigidity conjecture? No? Okay, what about a major new AI model?

When you immigrate, Karan Mahajan writes, certain bands of cultural experience go dark. Is that why he can’t stop writing about where he’s from?

Nature - Author Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life

Mathematician James Maynard has spent a lot of time this past year "soul searching." A professor at the University of Oxford and winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, Maynard told The Verge he's been grappling with the future of his field as the traditional…

Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.

Scientists have discovered that tiny, sharply curved wrinkles in graphene can dramatically alter its electrical behavior, creating surprisingly strong charge separation. The finding suggests future electronics could be tuned by reshaping materials at the atom…

Scientists have discovered that the aging human brain may be far less isolated from the rest of the body than once believed. Stanford researchers found that large numbers of immune cells from the blood begin entering the brain as early as middle age, where th…

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Princeton's Arvind Narayanan says his students are "in a bind." How much should they use AI versus resist it to build up their own skills?

Forscher nutzten KI, um lebensfähige Virusgenome zu entwerfen. Die Methode birgt Chancen gegen resistente Keime, aber auch Risiken für die Biosicherheit.

The economics of making a blockbuster game are starting to look as demanding as the games themselves. Development cycles stretch across years, budgets climb into extraordinary territory, and a single failed release can erase enormous amounts of investment. Th…

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,” Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the world’s first algorithm for the world’s first computer. Meanwhile, she was recko…

A two-year-old company is now worth $1.05bn. It writes software that makes data centres use less electricity on demand. Emerald AI raised $150mn in an oversubscribed Series A, the company announced on Tuesday. Energize Capital and DCVC co-led it, and the roun…

At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure out how to use them. In a category racing to add features, he …

Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insider’s Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropic’s …

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

美國大學的電腦科學專業面臨二十年來首見的選課人數下滑。隨著生成式AI重塑產業需求，過去暴增的選課人數已顯露疲態。這場轉折不僅反映電腦科學人才市場的飽和，更揭示學位價值在科技浪潮下的深刻轉型。美國高等教育界出現了近二十年來前所未有的重大轉折。根據《商業內幕》（Business Insider）最新報導指出，史丹佛大學胡佛研究所（Hoover Institution）經濟學家雅各布·萊特（Jacob Light）的最新研究發現，在 2025 至 2026 學年度，美國大專院校的電腦科學（Computer Scienc…

I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...

“Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results has obviously never had to reboot a computer.”

AI and the degree monopoly

Methods include singing copyrighted songs to downloading scanner apps, but an attorney said not all of these will be foolproof.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most acc…

The popularity of degree apprenticeships has grown as the cost of university has come under increased scrutiny.