Humans have long retreated to special spaces to cultivate the mind. The library, the monastery, the scientific laboratory—the university itself—have, across cultures and times, enabled particular ...

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IIT Bombay has introduced an e-Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The programme combines ...

Artificial-intelligence models will supposedly take over the world, but AI innovator Luc Julia tells Nature that they’re little more than glorified pocket calculators. The AI Illusion: Why Machines ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

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This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. The most spectacular prediction in certainly modern and possibly all history was made in 1988. It announced the ...

WHEN ANTHROPIC, an artificial-intelligence lab, debuts on stock markets later this year, it is likely to be one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. That’s because Claude, the company’s ...

Biological computing, a field in which living human neurons interface with silicon hardware, is progressing from proof of concept to early functional systems, with broad implications for computing ...