Scientists used a new error correction method to encode 70 logical qubits and solve a problem that is intractable for classical computers. The quantum computation ...

Bonsai 27B is a multi-billion parameter model small enough to fit into a smartphone. It’s useful for dev and research work, ...

Attempt to solve visual puzzles used to sort humans from bots and see how they’ve gotten harder as AI has gotten smarter.

There are a bunch of different acting techniques, but only one has become a persistent hot topic for its sheer extremity. In method acting, a performer loses themself in a character, fully embodying ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Richard Feynman got this one wrong — or at least couldn't get far enough to find out. As a Princeton graduate student in the early 1940s, he pressurized a glass carboy to run a sprinkler backward, ...

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UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

A new gas pump scam spreading across parts of the country could leave drivers unknowingly paying hundreds of dollars for fuel they never pumped. The scam, known as the “Screw Method,” has already been ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

Reaffirming the company’s long-established strategy, Disney CFO Hugh Johnston told Wall Street analysts Wednesday on an earnings call there are no plans to spin off or sell linear TV networks. The ...