Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.

Generative AI advanced rapidly without engineers fully understanding how chatbots produce their outputs. Unlike traditional software, ...

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

Florida officials announced that testing found elevated arsenic levels in over 60% of 46 popular candies. Candies testing high for arsenic included some varieties of Twizzlers, Nerds, Skittles, and ...

High-resolution scans of a pre-dynastic granite vase reveal micrometer-level precision that researchers say is nearly impossible to achieve with primitive hand tools. A mathematician and cryptographer ...

Seasonal flu activity is up across the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. The positivity rate for influenza was 32.9% as of the week ending Dec. 27, an ...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is shifting into high gear for 2026 as the company’s co-founder touts changes to the brain-computer interface devices' production. Writing on his social media platform X, Musk ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages developers still use daily, and what they’re good for. The computer revolution has ...

The U.S. won’t be sending any “high level” representatives to this year’s United Nations climate summit, a White House official told The Hill on Friday. The summit, known as COP30, will be held in ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...