Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

The Berlin Senate is expanding video surveillance and relying on automated behavioral analysis in front of the House of Representatives and at crime hotspots.

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

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In artificial intelligence research, scientists often describe parts of a model using simple algorithmic language. A small ...

Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

The apartment industry’s use of algorithmic pricing tools to set rental rates has recently come under siege by several state and local legislators, and as of November 20, a broad coalition of ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...