In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

Researchers combined AI simulations with NMR data to capture fleeting structures of intrinsically disordered proteins, ...

South Asia Expo in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo) * A centerpiece of the top-level ...

Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace ...

There’s so much excitement around AI agents. Agents can perform complex tasks, work seamlessly within teams, and drive outcomes. Agents are proving to be an extremely effective way for companies to ...

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

Sam Altman sits with his legs pretzeled in an office chair, staring deeply into the ceiling. To be fair, the new OpenAI headquarters—a temple of glass and blond wood in San Francisco’s Mission ...

As of March 2026, over half of US states have passed an “Age Verification” and “Digital ID” law. These verification systems (sometimes called “age-gating”) add a new dimension to problems that trans ...

Anthropic's new report ranked market research analysts and marketing specialists fifth on its list of eight hundred occupations most exposed to AI displacement-behind only programmers, customer ...

Advanced AI is not something we’re waiting for—it’s quietly moved into our homes, jobs, and even our social lives. By 2040, AI will shape our experiences in unexpected ways, at every level. From ...