Scientists have crossed an important line in biological engineering. In a recent study, researchers used artificial intelligence to design complete sets of genetic instructions for bacteriophages, ...

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone ...

Hiring has cooled for entry-level software developers — work increasingly done by AI agents — and college enrollment in ...

Hiring for entry-level software developers has slowed, and college enrollment in computer science is declining ...

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

The only snag was that “Shor’s algorithm”, as it is now known, required something that at the time only existed on university blackboards: a quantum computer. Chart: The Economist These days, quantum ...

Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a ...

The latest Chinese-built large language model (LLM) is impressing scientists with its size and capabilities. Last week, Beijing-based Moonshot AI unveiled ‘Kimi K3’, a powerful reasoning LLM that can ...

Founded in 2003 with seed funding from the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel – a body whose explicit purpose is to bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and the US intelligence community – Palantir ...

It's crazy to think that the mouse, a gadget synonymous with computers, was invented while The Beatles were still together. The prototype sprang to life in 1968, and just a few iterations later, it ...

The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, scientists warn. Reading time 2 minutes Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first. The machine that could ...