A computer designed to find life’s meaning concludes with a number. Trump adopts new nickname Ten years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their home, Rob made a movie about the family's ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

In 2024, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers, starting with the release of Phi (opens in new tab) models on Microsoft Foundry (opens in new tab), as well as deploying Phi ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

Doug Jacobson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Computer-use agents (a.k.a. GUI agents) are vision-language models that observe the screen, ground UI elements, and execute bounded UI actions (click, type, scroll, key-combos) to complete tasks in ...

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions on behalf of ...

A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. The word "parable" comes from the Greek word "parabolē," which means "comparison" or ...

Apple is seeing rapid growth in enterprise markets, and in the wake of the Crowdstrike disaster and Microsoft’s forced Windows 11 upgrades, there’s no good reason for that trend to end. It’s no wonder ...

Remember when the internet was just starting out? It was a wild, new place, nothing like what we see today. Back then, websites were pretty simple, mostly just words and pictures. We called this time ...