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Computer science

Postman launches new platform that lets developers build AI agents

Postman is helping make it easier for developers to design,...

Computational Complexity: The Fighting Temeraire

What does an 1838 painting tell us about technological change?A colleague and I decided to see how well LLMs could teach us a...

There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race

Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently  posted on January 17...

OpenAI ups its lobbying efforts nearly seven-fold

This new AI energy race is inseparable from the positioning of AI as essential for national security and US competitiveness with China. OpenAI...

The Download: AI for cancer diagnosis, and HIV prevention

Finding and diagnosing cancer is all about spotting patterns. Radiologists use x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging to illuminate tumors, and pathologists examine...

The second wave of AI coding is here

Zencoder has hired a bunch of search engine veterans to help it build a tool that can analyze large codebases and figure...

The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push

Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you:...

Quadrilateral area | Brahmagupta and Bretschneider formulas

Last week Heron’s formula came up in the post An Unexpected Triangle. Given the lengths of the sides of a triangle, there is...

Fueling the future of digital transformation

Luis: Yeah, that's a great question. I have no doubt that the energy business is changing and will continue to change only faster,...

What to expect from Neuralink in 2025

Robot arm Late last year, Neuralink opened a companion study through which it says some of its existing implant volunteers will...

Deciding the fate of “leftover” embryos

No one knows for sure how many embryos are frozen in storage tanks, but the figure is thought to be somewhere between...

An unexpected triangle | Sonine’s formula

Let J(x) be the function plotted below. This is the Bessel function J1, but we drop the subscript because it’s the only Bessel function...

We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

At the core of Bluesky’s philosophy is the idea that instead of being centralized in the hands of one person or institution, social...

The Download: How to save social media, and “leftover” embryos

—Eli Pariser & Deepti Doshi Last week, when Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta would be ending third-party fact-checking, it was a shocking...

OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science

Although genetic engineers have ways to direct evolution of molecules in the lab, they can usually test only so many possibilities. And even...
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