Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company's vast ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives, says Charlotta Kronblad of the University of Gothenburg ...

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AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear. Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah ...

I asked my editors if I could go work at a tech startup. It was an unusual request. But I wanted to learn to vibe-code. My need to know felt urgent. I wanted to survive the future. The pitch process ...

Artificial intelligence has become a popular tool for job recruiters, in part because programmers can code applicant-screening algorithms to avoid any explicit discrimination in their decision-making ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The risks have less to do with who owns the app than who writes the code and algorithms that make TikTok tick. By David E. Sanger Reporting from Washington In a capital where Republicans and Democrats ...