The real question is not what the technology can do but what it ought to do. People everywhere have woken up and are fighting ...

The Trump administration continues its assault on science. One little-known area that's been neglected in funding this year is federal research into social, behavioral and economic science.

Florida is accusing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of harmful and deceptive practices in a first-in-the-nation lawsuit ...

In the case of “Wake Up!”, it only needs 16 bytes to produce a Matrix-inspired visualization with an accompanying soundtrack.

Over forty years after Disney rejected The Brave Little Toaster, the iconic '80s movie has officially become a streaming hit ...

On Jan. 10, 2025, Treasury and the IRS released final regulations (T.D. 10022) addressing the classification of digital content and cloud transactions. Proposed regulations (REG–107420–24) were issued ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Abstract: Computer science pedagogy, especially in the higher education and vocational training context, has long-favored the hands-on practice provided by programming tasks due to the belief that ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Department of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia Mechanical and Electrical Vocational Technical College, Hohhot, China. Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is rapidly reshaping programming ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...