AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion ...

The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like YouTube also impair learning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when ...

Web3 startup aPriori has gone quiet after fresh allegations over its latest token airdrop, as onchain analysts flag unusually concentrated distribution patterns. About 60% of the recent aPriori (APR) ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...