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 ...

On April 24, national security concerns prompted President Biden to sign a bill that would ban popular short-form video platform TikTok if ByteDance, the app's Chinese parent company, fails to sell it ...

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 ...

In the small room where she teaches, in an old residential building in Huainan, a former coal-mining city in east China's Anhui Province, these icons have become a kind of classroom code. A thumbs-up ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

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 ...

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 ...

UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurance company in the US, is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI algorithm to override doctors’ judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly ...