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.

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

A Michigan woman’s decision to let artificial intelligence (AI) pick her lottery numbers has paid off in a big way. Tammy Carvey, 45, of Wyandotte, won a Powerball jackpot of $100,000 and says ChatGPT ...

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A Michigan woman won a big Powerball prize, and it was all thanks to numbers picked by ChatGPT. Tammy Carvey, a 45-year-old from Wyandotte, Michigan, said she turned to AI for help, and the result ...

Google is now letting developers preview the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model behind Project Mariner and agentic features in AI Mode. This “specialized model” can interact with graphical user interfaces, ...

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model is a new AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and interact with UIs—clicking, typing, and scrolling based on text prompts. Built on Gemini 2.5 Pro, this ...

This folder contains the programs found in the March 1975 3rd printing of David Ahl's 101 BASIC Computer Games, published by Digital Equipment Corp. You can download ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...