Americans feel gloomy about artificial intelligence, and everyone connected to the industry knows it. “AI is not very popular in the U.S. right now,” Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO who runs ChatGPT, ...

In 2025, the A.I. frontier lab Anthropic mustered Claude, its large language model, for national service. Although the military-industrial complex is newly fashionable, Anthropic was not a natural fit ...

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...

Abstract: The Subset Sum problem is a classical NP-complete problem with applications in resource allocation, cryptography, and combinatorial optimization. Conventional backtracking methods search the ...

So here is an extended video for “No Jointer No Problem!” After a million views and several questions about my short video I decided to make a video with more detail. Enjoy! Gold was the hottest ...

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My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

When Mitsubishi made your first cellphone, you know you’ve been around a while. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola ...

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All spark plugs may look the same to the untrained eye. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. For starters, spark plugs come in many types that are mainly differentiated by the ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...