In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

C-BRAIN has launched three open-source AI tools designed to streamline the discovery of treatments for Alzheimer’s and other ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new open-source software framework that significantly advances ...

July 2026 TIOBE Index puts Rust in the top 10 for the first time, as Python stays near 19% and the programming language ...

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Rust enters the top 10 for the first time, Python keeps the lead, C moves back above C++, and SQL edges out R in July’s ...

As we adjust our print schedule, launch a new website and rely on the U.S. Postal Service for delivery, please know these changes were not made lightly. They were made with our readers in mind — and ...

The future of aid is up for grabs after the destruction of USAID—and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Here’s who should tell us how aid must change. In this Q&A, new Oxfam-PolicyLink research reveals ...

Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

A federal judge has ruled that David Rush, the C.I.A. employee, must remain in detention. U.S. officials say Mr. Rush funneled millions in federal funds to himself. By Julian E. Barnes and Edward Wong ...

Louisiana has officially done away with its longtime vehicle inspection sticker requirement for most drivers under a new law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry, replacing the traditional brake tag system with ...

Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation ($26 billion post money), the company announced on ...