When ChatGPT first came onto the scene, it wowed users with its writing abilities, but drew laughs for generating images of seven-fingered hands and struggling with basic math, where 2+2 didn’t always ...

The prevailing assumption in AI development has been straightforward: larger models trained on more data produce better results. Nvidia's latest release directly challenges that size assumption — and ...

AI-driven coding is reshaping tech jobs, shifting developers to design and management roles. Engineers are managing multiple AI agents, which boosts productivity but could risk burnout. Google is ...

The radio signal first started broadcasting on February 28, about 12 hours after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran. On a scratchy shortwave signal almost twice a day -- in the early ...

The Random Sequence Generator is a free online tool designed to help you easily generate synthetic biological sequences, including DNA, RNA, and proteins. These sequences are applicable to a variety ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t just about incremental improvements but a complete redefinition of what’s possible? Enter GPT 5.2, the AI model that has shattered expectations and ...

Boasberg reverses course on Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by Trump Waymos caught on camera passing loading school buses in Texas Mom raises kids with "gentle parenting"—10 years on she’s trying to undo ...

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks ...