The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149 ...

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

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SpaceX is set to make history with a record-setting $1.77 trillion valuation at its IPO. The company had previously been expected to IPO at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion.

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

Some 20 years ago, a cobweb descended over my right eye. What I thought was a migraine, turned out to be a semi-detached retina. Even saying those words now makes me flinch. I was lucky and my sight ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

Meet the Rubinsteins. They number more than 20, counting spouses, and span three generations. Most live near Boston, with a branch in Philadelphia, and another in Brooklyn. Sisters Helen, Sylvia and ...

When electricity first arrived in factories, managers didn’t redesign their buildings. They simply replaced the central steam engine with an electric motor and kept the system of belts, pulleys, and ...

Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, has become an evangelist of a certain sort. During her tenure, her department has on multiple occasions released slick social-media recruitment videos ...